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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/gaddafi-blames-bin-laden-for-chaos.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A protester holds a weapon as he shouts slogans against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi during a demonstration in Tobruk (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-gaddafi-blames-bin-laden-for-chaos.jpg" alt="A protester holds a weapon as he shouts slogans against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi during a demonstration in Tobruk (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has accused al Qaida chief Osama bin Laden of being behind the uprising which has plunged the country into chaos.</p>
<p>He spoke as forces loyal to him struck back against rebels in clashes in cities close to the capital Tripoli.</p>
<p>Army units and militiamen attacked a mosque where many were holding an anti-government sit-in and battled with others who had seized control of an airport. A doctor at the mosque said 10 people were killed.</p>
<p>Col Gaddafi blamed bin Laden for the uprising in a rambling phone call to state TV. The Libyan leader said the more than week-long revolt has been carried out by young men fired up on hallucinogenic pills given to them &#8220;in their coffee with milk, like Nescafe&#8221;. </p>
<p>&#8220;Shame on you, people of Zawiya, control your children,&#8221; he said, addressing residents of the city outside Tripoli where the mosque attack took place.</p>
<p>&#8220;They are loyal to bin Laden,&#8221; he said of those involved in the uprising. What do you have to do with bin Laden, people of Zawiya? They are exploiting young people &#8230; I insist it is bin Laden.&#8221;</p>
<p>The attacks aimed to push back a revolt that has moved closer to Col Gaddafi&#8217;s bastion in Tripoli. Most of the eastern half of Libya has already broken away, and parts of Gaddafi&#8217;s regime have crumbled.</p>
<p>In the latest blow to the Libyan leader, a cousin who is one of his closest aides, Ahmed Gadhaf al-Dam, announced that he has defected to Egypt in protest against the regime&#8217;s bloody crackdown against the uprising, denouncing what he called &#8220;grave violations to human rights and human and international laws&#8221;.</p>
<p>In Zawiya, 30 miles west of Tripoli, an army unit attacked the city&#8217;s Souq Mosque, where regime opponents had been camped for days in a protest calling for Col Gaddafi&#8217;s removal, a witness said.</p>
<p>The soldiers opened fire with automatic weapons and hit the mosque&#8217;s minaret with fire from an anti-aircraft gun, he said. Some of the young men among the protesters, who were inside the mosque and in a nearby lot, had hunting rifles for protection. A doctor at a field clinic set up at the mosque said he saw the bodies of 10 dead, shot in the head and chest, as well as around 150 wounded.</p>
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