Qadaffy...dictator of Libya since 1969. From 1972, when he relinquished the title of prime minister, he has been accorded the honorifics
Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriyaor
Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution. With the death of Omar Bongo of Gabon on 8 June 2009, he became the longest serving of all current non-royal national leaders. He is also the longest-serving ruler of Libya since Tripoli became an Ottoman province in 1551. When Chairman Mao was all the rage and millions of people were flashing his Little Red Book, Qadaffy came out with his own Little Green Book, which didn't do as well. Qadaffy's instability has been an inspiration to the Arab world and to Africa, which he would like to rule...
on Thursday ruled out talks with his foes to end a five-month rebellion against his rule and said the battle had already been decided in his favour.
"The battle has been decided. It has been decided in favour of the masses and the people," he said in a speech broadcast to thousands of supporters in his home town of Sirte, 450 kilometres (280 miles) east of Tripoli.
"They cannot defeat us. They will be defeated and they will go home empty-handed," he added.
Qadaffy said that no one "can face an army of millions. For the first time you are facing a people in arms," he said, referring to NATO's
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
military campaign under a UN mandate that effectively backs the rebels.
Qadaffy insisted he would not start negotiations with the rebels.
"I will not talk to them. There will be no negotiations between me and them...," adding: they "must understand that their desperate fight is a lost cause. They must return to their bases".
"The masses will walk over you and crush you," he warned the rebels who are in control of several regions in the east and west of the vast north African country.
In another speech broadcast by Libyan television Qadaffy addressed "a meeting of Misrata tribes", calling for "a march on the city (east of Tripoli) to liberate it" from rebels.
The meeting was attended by several dozen people, according to television footage.
As Libya's rebels seek to consolidate their progress in the east and ramped up for a pre-Ramadan offensive in the west, Qadaffy has made several speeches to supporters in cities still under his control over the past weeks.