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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/defiant-gaddafi-vows-to-fight-on.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi addresses the nation in a TV broadcast in Tripoli (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-defiant-gaddafi-vows-to-fight-on.jpg" alt="Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi addresses the nation in a TV broadcast in Tripoli (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>A ranting Muammar Gaddafi has gone on Libyan TV vowing to fight on and die a &#8220;martyr&#8221; in the face of violent protests that are tearing the country apart.</p>
<p>He called on his supporters to take back the streets, shouting and pounding his fist in a furious speech.</p>
<p>Gaddafi, swathed in brown robes and turban, spoke from a podium set up in the entrance of a bombed out building that appeared to be his Tripoli residence hit by US airstrikes in the 1980s and left unrepaired as a monument of defiance.</p>
<p>Shouting, he declared himself &#8220;a warrior&#8221; and proclaimed: &#8220;Libya wants glory, Libya wants to be at the pinnacle, at the pinnacle of the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;I am a fighter, a revolutionary from tents &#8230; I will die as a martyr at the end.&#8221;</p>
<p>The speech, which appeared to have been taped earlier, was aired on a screen to hundreds of supporters massed in Tripoli&#8217;s central Green Square.</p>
<p>He proclaimed, &#8220;Libya wants glory, Libya wants to be at the pinnacle, at the pinnacle of the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>At times the camera panned out to show a towering gold-coloured monument in front of the building, showing a fist crushing a fighter jet with an American flag on it &#8211; a view that also gave the strange image of Gaddafi speaking alone from behind a podium in the building&#8217;s dilapidated lobby, with no audience in front of him.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have not yet ordered the use of force, not yet ordered one bullet to be fired &#8230; when I do, everything will burn,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>He called on supporters to take to the streets to attack protesters. &#8220;You men and women who love Gaddafi &#8230;get out of your homes and fill the streets,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Leave your homes and attack them in their lairs &#8230; Starting tomorrow the cordons will be lifted, go out and fight them.&#8221;</p>
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