Regime will not fall, NATO must pull back: Kadhafi

  Saturday, July 09, 2011
 TRIPOLI: Embattled Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi said in an audio message relayed to supporters that his regime will not fall and told NATO to stop attacking his troops.

"The regime in Libya will not fall -- it is based on the people, not on Kadhafi. NATO is wrong if it thinks it can topple the regime of this country," he said in the message to thousands of supporters in Sabha, some 750 kilometres (450 miles) south of Tripoli.

"This gathering of more than a million people is a new message to Europe, to the crusaders and colonialists: the regime does not belong to Kadhafi, it is the people's regime and the people will not give up an inch of its land or bow down to invaders," he said.

"Our only choice is resistance: we are on home ground and are not afraid of your war machine," a defiant Kadhafi told his supporters in Sabha, the desert stronghold of his clan, addressing NATO directly.

He added that the NATO-led air strikes on his forces must cease, and Libyans should be left "all alone" to solve their own problems.GeoTv