Muammer Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, vowed to fight until the last drop of his blood had been spilt rather step down, describing anti-regime protesters as “rats” and “mercenaries” working to foreign agendas.
In a threatening 75-minute TV address on Tuesday, delivered from the ruins of a former Gaddafi family home bombed by US military aircraft in 1986, he called on supporters to “cleanse Libya house by house” unless the protesters surrendered.
Shaking his fist defiantly, Mr Gaddafi said the youths who had taken to the streets of Libyan cities to oppose his rule were manipulated by others who gave them drugs and who were trying to turn the country into an Islamic state.
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