Qaddafi Vows ‘Martyrdom’ as Opposition Intensifies Hunt

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-24/qaddafi-vows-martyrdom-or-victory-as-libyan-opposition-intensifies-search.html

Muammar Qaddafi vowed “martyrdom” or victory a day after Libyan rebels seized control of his Bab Al Aziziya compound in Tripoli.

Qaddafi, 69, called on his supporters to “cleanse” Tripoli of “rats,” al-Arabiya TV reported, citing a recording of comments broadcast early today by a local radio station. Fighting against his loyalists flared elsewhere, rebel officials said, including around the southern city of Sabha, a Qaddafi stronghold and home to a major military base.

“As long as Qaddafi remains in Libya, then there will be no security,” Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, vice president of the rebel National Transitional Council, said in a telephone interview yesterday from Benghazi. “He must be finished off, either through death or capture.”

The opposition forces raised their flag over the Bab Al Aziziya compound yesterday after weeks of stalemate in the six- month conflict. Both sides claimed to control the largest share of the capital.

[geckosfeet]

1. That will work.

Although a legitimate trial with convictions will cement his legacy instead of making him a symbolic martyr.

[DCBob]

2. I think he means maryrdom for his loyalists. Im sure he has the means to hightail it out of there..

if he has not already.