Libya is to recall its ambassador to Riyadh for consultations following Saturday's Arab summit clash between Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, an official statement said Monday.The statement said the decision was taken by the Libyan parliament, the General People's Congress, which expressed its "discontent' at what it called Prince Abdullah's "aggression" towards Kadhafi.

It also said the congress would review relations between Tripoli and Riyadh and Libya's membership of the Arab League,
Television viewers across the Arab world saw Abdullah cursing Kadhafi at Saturday's Arab summit in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

"Who exactly brought you to power?" the Saudi royal asked the Libyan leader, alluding to suggestions that his 1969 overthrow of the British-backed monarchy had US support.

"You are a liar and your grave awaits you," the crown prince said.

Kadhafi had roundly criticised Saudi support for the United States at the summit that focused on US-led war threats against Iraq, alleging that King Fahd had been ready to "strike an alliance with the devil" to defend the kingdom after Iraq's 1990 invasion of neighbouring Kuwait.

The spat sparked demonstrations by thousands of Libyans near the Saudi embassy here, and on Monday Saudi daily newspaper Okaz said Kadhafi's regime posed more of a threat to the Arab world than foreign powers and should be toppled.

Libya had announced on October 24 it wanted to quit the Arab League for failing to do much to stop Israel's "aggression" against the Palestinians and US threats of war against Iraq.

League Secretary General Amr Mussa was only able to persuade Kadhafi to suspend the move, but in December official media quoted him as saying Tripoli will stick by its decision "as long as the League charter is not re-activated and respected in a way that guarantees effective Arab action against the dangers facing the Arab world."

Khadafi was in Cairo on Monday to discuss Arab affairs and the Iraqi crisis meet with with President Hosni Mubarak and meet Egyptian intellectuals, Egypt's official news agency MENA said.

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The Saudi Crown Prince (L) and Kadhafi