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'You will fall'

Mr Gaddafi, who is believed to be hiding in a bunker at his Tripoli headquarters, is promising the war in his country will be a long, drawn-out affair with no limits.

Thousands of Libyans have packed into his heavily fortified compound to form a human shield against possible air strikes by allied forces.

Mr Gaddafi made a long and repetitive tirade on television by phone as the screen showed a slide of a statue of a huge hand crushing an American fighter jet.

"You will fall like Hitler, Napoleon and Mussolini fell before you. All the tyrants will fall at the feet of the masses," he said.