Muammar Gaddafi, driven into hiding by his foes, on Thursday urged his supporters to fight on, even as Libya's new interim rulers met world leaders to discuss reshaping a nation torn by 42 years of one-man rule and six months of war.
"Let it be a long battle. We will fight from place to place, from town to town, from valley to valley, from mountain to mountain," Gaddafi said in his message.
"If Libya goes up in flames, who will be able to govern it? Let it burn. They don't want to rule Libya. They cannot rule it as long as we are armed. We are still armed. We will fight in every valley, in every street, in every oasis, and every town."
He added: "How can we give ourselves up again? Are we women surrendering ourselves to our husbands or what?"
He gave no indication of where he was in his audio remarks.
It's occurred to me that Qaddafi is literally phoning it in at this point, which would be funny if people weren't dying in Libya still and Tripoli wasn't turning into a humanitarian disaster zone with pro-Qaddafi forces cutting off water in the city.
I'm wondering what it's going to take to get some help into there.
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