CAIRO - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pledged to fight for his "last drop of blood," and yelled his supporters to take to the streets against the demonstrators in a furious, fist-fighting speech on Tuesday after two nights of bloodshed in the capital, that his forces tried to crush the uprising that has torn his regime.
Gaddafi's invitation to presage a new round of chaos in the capital of 2 million people. Evening, residents described a Pro fury militiamen who fired on sight anyone found on the streets and opened fire on the vehicle acceleration of people watching the windows of their homes. Tuesday morning, filled with the bodies still lay on some streets.
Shots were heard occasionally after Gaddafi's speech aired on state television and a display of several hundred supporters in Tripoli's central Green Square, witnesses said.
Wrapped in a brown robe and turban, the country's leader for nearly 42 years spoke from behind a podium at the entrance of his residence in Tripoli bombing hit by U.S. airstrikes in 1980 and not repaired as a sign of defiance .
Sometimes the camera pans back to show off the building and its monument overlooking a golden fist crushing an American fighter plane. But the prospect also gave a surreal picture of Gaddafi, shouting and waving his arms wildly all alone in a lobby down without an audience, surrounded by coral tiles hanging from the ceiling, pillars of concrete and crushed Pipe naked.
"Libya wants the glory, Libya wants to be on top, on top of the world," he proclaimed, beating his fist on the podium. "I am a fighter, a revolutionary tent ... I will die like a martyr to the end, he said, promising to fight "to my last drop of blood. "
Gaddafi portrayed the protesters as misguided youth who had drugs and money with a "sick little group" of attack the police and government buildings. He said that the uprising was fomented by "bearded" - a reference to Islamic fundamentalists - and Libyans living abroad. He urged supporters to take to the streets to attack the demonstrators.
"You men and women who love ... Gaddafi out of your houses and filling the streets," he said. "Leave your houses and attack them in their lairs."
