Aisha el-Qaddafi, the 36-year-old lawyer daughter of embattled Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi told the New York Times in an exclusive interview that she likes telling her three children bedtime stories about life after death, especially during the war.

“To make them ready,” she said during the interview, “because in a time of war you never know when a rocket or a bomb might hit you, and that will be the end.”

Qaddafi, who once served on Saddam Hussein’s defense team, compared NATO’s efforts in Libya to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, predicting a situation even worse for Libya’s future. . .