Gaddafi Speaks from Underground Bunker: "I Will Die a Martyr"

Note: This article is being updated as Gaddafi speaks.

Update: The speech has surpassed an hour in length.

Update #2:  The speech has concluded at almost an hour and a half.  Major points and pictures are below.

Angry and most likely deranged, Libyan dictator Maummar Gaddafi spoke quickly and enraged in a rambling speech that aired on Al Jazeera that lasted from the morning into the early afternoon.

For the first twenty five minutes, Gaddafi attempted to explain "how great he is."  He spoke of conquests and history, rewriting it along the way.  One of the first things he stated was, "I will die a martyr...I will never leave."

"Where were you," he screamed.

He continued, "The struggle for power has been resolved.  When America raided us, we fought the French in the south and Sadat in the north.  And we fought him.  All forces of the colonials...We said no!"

"I call on the Libyan people to form new principalities," Gaddafi went on.  "On the day of the revolution, where were you!"

As you can probably tell, Gaddafi's speech was disjointed and angry, while he yelled for the majority of it.

"Young people are given the armed vehicles in Benghazi...collect your children in you love Gaddafi," he rambled on.  "Take the greasy rats out of the street.  If we have to use force, we will used it based on the Libyan constitution."

Some excerpts of his speech:

"I will fight until the last drop of my blood with the Libyan people behind me...we have been bitten by American aggression!  They took away your children from you!  Your children are dying for what reason, for what purpose?  No reason.  Your children died!"

"Rats will reach the oil fields and blow it!"

"Americans... dropping bombs on it!"

"Any Libyans who raise an arm will be punished with death."

About 20 minutes into the speech, Gaddafi even began to read from a book, giving various reasons why he will kill protesters:

"I am not leaving," he went on.

Eventually, in disgust, Gaddafi even took off his glasses and pointed accusingly at the camera:

"Your children from tomorrow, not those youths, if they were handed to the authorities so they could be rehabilitated to become better members of their community, all people should go out to the streets!  Take over the streets!  I am the head of the people revolution!"

"All Libyans should wear guns on their arms!"

Gaddafi then grabbed an apparently pre-prepared paper to read from it:

"Wear your head high without being teased!"

"Start from tonight apprehending from now!  A new administration will be formed."

"When they are caught, they will beg for mercy and we will not be merciful."

Honestly, I don't know where he keeps getting these props.

"Libyans do not need to have an armed rebellion."

"It's not a joke, I will do whatever it takes."

At one point he even seemed to smell his glasses as he put them on:

Half way through the speech, the translator on Al Jazeera switched with another.

"We know each other by name.  We know that area...we know other tribes..."

"All the demonstrations support us!"

"Are you gangsters?  It's impossible!"

"Don't destroy your country for no reason!  What's come over you?!"

Gaddafi then drank a glass of water before reading a poem:

"It's impossible for our youth to be controlled by anyone else.  Will they be controlled by someone with a beard?  Impossible!"

At the end of the speech, Gaddafi went into another room in his bunker and shook hands with several people, after being kissed by one of his sons:

Here is a fifteen second speech that Gaddafi gave yesterday (and yes, he has another prop, this time an umbrella):


And here is the entirety of the speech.  If you don't understand it, you don't speak Arabic:


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