Muammar Gaddafi has vowed to "fight to the last man and last woman" as his forces battled poorly armed rebels for control of towns near the capital trying to create a buffer zone around his seat of power. The latest fighting came as Colonel Gaddafi addressed supporters and foreign media in a conference hall in Tripoli. "We will fight until the last man and woman. We will defend Libya from the north to the south," he said. The increasingly violent clashes threatened to transform the 15-day popular rebellion in Libya into a drawn-out civil war. Amid the intensified fighting, the international community stepped up moves to isolate the longtime Libyan leader. Flexing its military muscle, the United States sent warships towards Libya on Tuesday as it sought to keep pressure on Muammar Gaddafi to relinquish his four-decade grip on power.
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