Rebel Leader: Gadhafi Speech Shows 'Despair'
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Moammar Gadhafi's speech on Thursday revealed the Libyan leader's "despair" in the face of a successful revolution, a senior rebel leader said.
"Gadhafi's speech is a sign of misery and despair," Ahmed Darrat, who is overseeing the interior ministry for the rebels until a new government is elected, told Agence France Presse in Tripoli.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi vowed earlier Thursday not to surrender, saying he would carry on fighting the rebels who have conquered most of the country, the Syrian Arrai television channel said.
He urged his supporters to keep up their resistance to the rebellion that has forced him into hiding, the pro-Gadhafi station said, carrying written extracts from a message it said would be broadcast later.
"Even if you cannot hear my voice, continue the resistance," Gadhafi said on the 42nd anniversary of the coup that brought him to power, as an international conference opened in Paris on aiding the rebel National Transitional Council to set up a new administration.
"We will not surrender. We are not women and we are going to keep on fighting," the message said.
He added that he was ready for a "long battle" against NATO-backed rebels even if his country is destroyed.
"If they want a long battle, let it be long. If Libya burns, who will be able to govern it? Let it burn," said Gadhafi who has been on the run since rebels entered Tripoli on August 20.
01 September 2011, 18:25
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He sounds like Aoun, I wonder if there's an embassy near where he is.
01 September 2011, 19:01
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This is what the Arab World got stuck with and similar... for 40 years....
Are we blind.....or it took 40 years for the Young Arabs to notice what leaders they had....
Also these dictators were and are still hiding under the Palestinian Cause......for how long ?
01 September 2011, 19:16
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Looser, Bashar will soon follow him and join him in hidding and screams like a girl
01 September 2011, 20:01
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long battle? let it burn?rome or damascus?neron or bashar?
i remember ain el remmaneh bus..... achrafieh.... sodeco.... beirut.. saida... tell zaatar...wadi el arayish...qaa...damour...jabal...kamal jumblat... sheikh bashir....sheikh hassan khalid.......???..hassan???
dont get me wrong, WE FORGIVE, BUT NEVER FORGET.
01 September 2011, 23:39
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As usual, 70% of the content of the speech is blacked out. MSR again! (Selective Malignant Reporting-- a term devised for Naharnet only).
Anyone who has the slight interest for what Gadhafi said today should go to another news source.
02 September 2011, 01:14
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Yes fight for a useless cause for a leader that treated you like crap. That makes perfect sense.
Even his own home town Sirte is going to fall and better if it falls without a fight to spare innocent lives. I wonder if his followers are stupid enough to think that they have any chance of winning at all and dumb enough to waste their lives and the lives of others and time and money of Libya defending a drugged up surgical abomination like Gadhafi or his egomaniac children (each of them a bigger criminal and savage than the next).
02 September 2011, 10:40
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Ya Moammar, you are not alone...
One is exiled
One is dying and trialed
One has been cooked
One is hiding in the sewer...just like you!
And One hasn't slept for the past 6 months...
you are not alone, for several will share a common fate with you...
