Libyan Dictaor says he is just a symbol and power is in the hands of the people during televised address to supporters.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has said that he is not a president and so cannot resign his position, and that power is in the hands of the people, during a televised public rally in the capital, Tripoli.
"Muammar Gaddafi is not a president to resign, he does not even have a parliament to dissolve," Gaddafi said on Wednesday, his third pu8blic appearance since the uprising, surrounded by dozens of supporters in a large ballroom for a ceremony to mark 34 years of "people power".
"Attacks on me are seen by Libyan people as attacks on their symbol and dignity.
"The foreigners want Gaddafi to step down, to step down from what? Gaddafi is just a symbol for the Libyan people... This is how the Libyan people understood it."
He said that the world did not understand the Libyan system that puts power in the hands of the people.
"The people are free to chose the authority they see fit," he said.
"We put our fingers in the eyes of those who doubt that Libya is ruled by anyone other than its people," he said, referring to his system of "direct democracy" which he outlined in his Green Book political manifesto, launched in 1977.
"I have always said that the Libyan people are free [in managing their own business]."
He did however announce that he was willing to discuss constitutional and legal change without armed conflict or chaos.
Gaddafi added there were no protests in the second largest city, Benghazi, Derna, or the eastern town of al-Baida ... that it all started with sleeper cells taking over weapons and security stations.
He said that terrorists released prisioners from jails and included them in their forces.
"These are criminals not political prisioners ... there are no political prisioners in Libya ... We had to destroy the weapons storages to prevent them from falling into the hands of the terrorists.
He repeated his claim that al-Qaeda was behind the popular uprising against his 41-year rule and promised to fight to the last man and woman.
"Sleeper cells from al-Qaeda, its elements, infiltrated gradually ... Suddenly it started in al-Baida... The sleeping cell was told to attack the battalion ... and it took arms from police stations.
According to the reliable reports, he is continuing to loose support locally as well as internationally.. Internationally he has very few friends, they too work just like dictator ( Chavez, Nepal Dictator, Percy Mahinda etc...)
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