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While the people's mass struggle for Libya's liberation enters the third week, since the last night the regime strikes back - merciless and bloody, according to latest news reports.

But at the same time Muammar "The Butcher" Gaddafi presented to his remaining supporters and the int'l audience (via some int'l media representatives) his "viewpoint" about the current situation in the country (i.e. just an extended version of his already wellknown hallucinations) during a televised address to mark 34 years of so-called "People Power".

Here a kind of protocol(recorded by The Guardian):

12.36am(local time): Gaddafi has just began speaking in Tripoli, following a lengthy fawning introduction from one of his supporters.

He extends his congratulations to the Libyan people for the creation of the people's authority on this day in 1977. He said it marks the day he rid the country of colonial powers, citing the US and the UK, and handed the power to the people.

12.41am: The people's authority represents a "true democracy" without any parliament or elections (!), says Gaddafi.

"Authority and power is in the hands of the people and only the people."

We give no power to any king or president, he says.

The Libyan system "is not comprehended by the world".

"I carried out a revolution in the 70s, handed over power to the people and then rested."

12.49am: People come to me for advice and "cultural influence", says Gaddafi.

He's talking about the formation of the Libyan bar association (for lawyers) for some reason, saying he did not want to interfere in its formation.

Talking about himself in the third person: "Muammar Gaddafi has no power, he is not president."
He's interrupted by chants of support. "The people improvised these chants [the implication being they haven't been told to shout support for him] and voiced them. Millions of the Libyan people marched chanting my name."

"The whole Libyan people have told me they are willing to die for me."

More chants...

12.57am: The crowds are chanting: "We swear by God, we can never abandon our leader."

Gaddafi says: "These chants are newly authored by the Libyan people." Once more he tries to emphasise the show of support is not staged!

Gaddafi says: "Libya was just like Lebanon and Liberia (chosen for alliteration?) but now it is free."

"How come Muammar Gaddafi bought Italy to its knees...forced Italy to apologise to the Libyan people?"

He says Libya forced the Americans out.

After more chanting Gaddafi asks people: "Please be calm"

If you look at the protests shown by the foreign media you would imagine the whole world wants to label Gaddafi as a criminal, he says, but how come all the people on the ground support him.

01.04pm: Back onto a familiar ground as Gaddafi accuses al Qaida of being behind the violence in Libya.

Operatives have settled in certain areas and formed dormant cells.

"Suddenly this dormant cell in al Bayda launched an attack against the battalion. They attacked the police station."

Gaddafi says this is how the protests started. "When the assault was launched the battalion received orders not to return fire."

The Libyan leader says people then took arms and took control of al Bayda.

"The same infection has spread over to Benghazi, the birthplace of martyrs, of Omar Mukhtar."

Again he says he told the battalion to abandon the camp and go home.

01.13pm: I decided that all weapons depots should be destroyed to avoid them falling into the hands of "terrorists", says Gaddafi.

"The whole world knows about al Qaida."

It is an "absolute lie" that peaceful demonstrations are being fired upon.

"Libya does not like foreign correspondents," says Gaddafi, explaining why none were in the country before the uprising began.

"There were no peaceful demonstrations at all in Libya, as I told you it was a terrorist attack."

"The terrorist operatives are wreaking havoc, raping woman on a daily basis."

He says the "terrorists" freed people from jail and handed them weapons (which is exactly what he has been accused of doing, as well as employing foreign mercenaries).

01.19pm: There are no peaceful demonstrations at all, Gaddafi says. It is a conspiracy to control Libya's oil.

We will fight to the last drop of blood to defend Libyan territory inch by inch, he says.

01.22pm: Libya will stop producing and exporting oil, Gaddafi says.

01.23pm: If the demonstrations in Libya were peaceful, Gaddafi asks, why would foreign countries be withdrawing their citizens and companies their workers?

01.25pm: This – the withdrawal of foreigners – is clear proof that what is happening is attacks launched by armed gangs against these companies, Gaddafi claims.

They depicted Libya as fallen, he says. Libya will live on and it is them that will fall.

The crowds start chanting: "If we are abandoned by the whole world, we will not abandon our leader."

01.28pm: In Bayda and Benghazi committees should be formed to find out who killed whom, Gaddafi says. The UN can send fact-finding committees to prove we did not fire a single bullet against peaceful civilians, he says.

He attacks the idea of the UN handing down resolutions based only on media reports.

01.35pm: Back to al-Qaida. They do not have demands. They are limited in number. Their slogan is: "Killing, killing, killing." They do not compromise. Gaddafi wishes they had demands so they could negotiate

01.38pm: Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb are operatic from a mosque or "snake hole" brainwashing the youth, Gaddafi claims. That's different from Egypt and Tunisia, he says.

02.09pm: We are not like Darfur or Iraq, Gaddafi says; we do not need foreign aid. Anyone who talks about that will be considered a traitor who has committed high treason. That would open the door to colonialism. We have enough supplies...

Etc, etc...

Summary: After all, according to "The Butcher", there are no anti-gov't protests at all... all the previous and current demonstrations in the country are SUPPORTING the regime... of course there are NO political prisoners... etc, etc...

Related/updated reports you'll get on Al-Jazeera!!