In an audio speech broadcast on state television, the Libyan leader said: "We only have one choice: we will stay in our land dead or alive."
Col Gaddafi called on his supporters to flock to his Bab al-Aziziya compound which was hit several times by NATO air strikes on Tuesday.
He said: "We will not surrender, we welcome death. Martyrdom is a million times better."
On Tuesday low-flying NATO military craft unleashed a ferocious series of nearly 30 daytime airstrikes on Tripoli, rattling the Libyan capital, sending plumes of smoke billowing above Gaddafi's compound. » | Tuesday, June 07, 2011
