Qaddafi: I will fight protesters, die a martyr

(CBS/AP) CAIRO – Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi vowed to fight protesters demanding his ouster and to die a “martyr,” shouting and pounding his fist in a furious speech on state TV. Qaddafi, 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 U.S. airstrikes in the 1980s and left unrepaired as a monument of defiance. The speech, which appeared to have been taped earlier, was aired on a screen to hundreds of supporters massed in Tripoli’s central Green Square. Shouting, he declared himself “a warrior” and proclaimed, “Libya wants glory, Libya wants to be at the pinnacle, at the pinnacle of the…

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Qaddafi: I will fight protesters, die a martyr

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