Ahmad Abdullah Ravian
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TRIPOLI (AFP) - Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi said Friday in an audio message aired on state television that Nato will be defeated and fail in its bid to bring about regime change in Libya.
"They will be defeated, NATO is bound to be defeated," the Libyan leader said in the speech delivered as the television showed live footage of a demonstration by thousands of regime supporters in Tripoli's Green Square.
"We are determined to change nothing in our country other than by our own free will, not because of the alliance's planes... We are resisting, we are fighting.
"If they come to the ground, we will wait for them, but they are cowards, they will not dare," he said in reference to NATO's insistence it will not deploy ground troops on Libyan soil in line with a UN resolution.
Gaddafi called on Libyans to prepare to liberate their country: "Get ready men and women to free Libya inch by inch."
Meanwhile, ten people were killed and 40 wounded when forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi pounded the western rebel-held port city of Misrata with Grad rockets, a rebel official told AFP on Friday.
Rebel spokesman Ahmed Hassan said all the victims of the attack were civilians, and that they were hit when rockets slammed into the western and eastern gates of the city.
Meanwhile, Libya's rebels denied Friday they are engaged in negotiations with Moamer Gaddafi's regime as they came under deadly rocket fire in Misrata but seized a key stretch of road towards the Tunisian border.
Russian envoy Mikhail Margelov, speaking one day after visiting Tripoli, had declared earlier that the strongman's camp had forged multiple contacts with the Libyan opposition in a number of European capitals. "I can assure you there is and there was no negotiation between the NTC and the regime," Mahmud Jibril, the head of international affairs in the rebel National Transitional Council, said in Naples, Italy.
At a joint news conference with Italian FM Franco Frattini, Jibril said that were negotiations to take place, the NTC would "announce it out of commitment to our friends all over the world".
"They will be defeated, NATO is bound to be defeated," the Libyan leader said in the speech delivered as the television showed live footage of a demonstration by thousands of regime supporters in Tripoli's Green Square.
"We are determined to change nothing in our country other than by our own free will, not because of the alliance's planes... We are resisting, we are fighting.
"If they come to the ground, we will wait for them, but they are cowards, they will not dare," he said in reference to NATO's insistence it will not deploy ground troops on Libyan soil in line with a UN resolution.
Gaddafi called on Libyans to prepare to liberate their country: "Get ready men and women to free Libya inch by inch."
Meanwhile, ten people were killed and 40 wounded when forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi pounded the western rebel-held port city of Misrata with Grad rockets, a rebel official told AFP on Friday.
Rebel spokesman Ahmed Hassan said all the victims of the attack were civilians, and that they were hit when rockets slammed into the western and eastern gates of the city.
Meanwhile, Libya's rebels denied Friday they are engaged in negotiations with Moamer Gaddafi's regime as they came under deadly rocket fire in Misrata but seized a key stretch of road towards the Tunisian border.
Russian envoy Mikhail Margelov, speaking one day after visiting Tripoli, had declared earlier that the strongman's camp had forged multiple contacts with the Libyan opposition in a number of European capitals. "I can assure you there is and there was no negotiation between the NTC and the regime," Mahmud Jibril, the head of international affairs in the rebel National Transitional Council, said in Naples, Italy.
At a joint news conference with Italian FM Franco Frattini, Jibril said that were negotiations to take place, the NTC would "announce it out of commitment to our friends all over the world".
