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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/defiant-gaddafi-clinging-to-power.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Video image broadcast on Libyan state television of Muammar Gaddafi (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-defiant-gaddafi-clinging-to-power.jpg" alt="Video image broadcast on Libyan state television of Muammar Gaddafi (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has appeared on state television denying rumours that he fled the chaos-stricken country amid bloody clashes between protesters and security forces.</p>
<p>The embattled dictator, whose 41-year rule is hanging in the balance, said he remained in Tripoli and referred to foreign news channels who reported he had travelled to Venezuela as &#8220;dogs&#8221;.</p>
<p>He made the brief and bizarre address from the passenger seat of a van clutching an umbrella through the open door apparently to shelter him from the rain that has been falling in the capital for two days.</p>
<p>With large parts of Libya already believed to be under rebel control, crowds on the streets of Tripoli have been targeted by loyalist gunmen and airstrikes. But Mr Gaddafi&#8217;s grip on power was looking increasing shaky after a series of senior Libyan diplomats defected and spoke out against the brutal repression.</p>
<p>World leaders including David Cameron also intensified their criticism of the regime, demanding an end to violence estimated to have cost more than 230 lives so far.</p>
<p>Relatively little reliable information has been coming out of Libya, but reports suggest some elements of the army are fighting loyalist forces.</p>
<p>During this morning&#8217;s television appearance, which lasted less than a minute, Mr Gaddafi said he had wanted to go to the capital&#8217;s Green Square to talk to his supporters, but the rain stopped him. &#8220;I am here to show that I am in Tripoli and not in Venezuela. Don&#8217;t believe those misleading dog stations,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Justice Minister Mustapha Abdul Jalil has quit the government because of the &#8220;excessive use of violence&#8221;, according to a privately owned Libyan newspaper.</p>
<p>The country&#8217;s deputy envoy to the UN, Ibrahim Dabbashi, has also called on the dictator to step down, accusing his government of genocide. And Libya&#8217;s most senior diplomat in America, Ali Aujali, told the BBC he was &#8220;not supporting the government killing its people&#8221;.</p>
<p>US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said she &#8220;strongly condemned the violence in Libya&#8221;, insisting: &#8220;Now is the time to stop this unacceptable bloodshed.&#8221; Mr Cameron, in Egypt on a tour of the volatile region, deployed some of the toughest language by branding the regime&#8217;s actions &#8220;completely appalling and unacceptable&#8221;.</p>
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