Gaddafi vows to fight on, Libyans try to move on

The voice of Muammar Gaddafi boomed out from his hiding place on Thursday, denying he had fled Libya and cursing as rats and stray dogs those whose efforts to start governing in his place are being frustrated by his diehard followers.

"We will not leave our ancestral land," Gaddafi said in what Syria's Arrai TV said was a live broadcast from somewhere in Libya. "The youths are now ready to escalate the resistance against the rats in Tripoli and to finish off the mercenaries."

"Our resolute Libyan people, the Libyan land is your own," said the 69-year-old who ran the country since he was 27 until two weeks ago. "Those who try to take it from you now, they are intruders, they are mercenaries, they are stray dogs."

Backing up his words, a cannonade of Grad missiles flew out of Bani Walid, a desert town south of Tripoli where a hard core of loyalists -- estimated by their opponents at about 150 -- are under siege by the new interim government.