Gaddafi insists Libya ‘ready for battle’ as coalition talks tactics

A DEFIANT Muammar Gaddafi said Libya is “ready for battle”, as Western leaders mulled yesterday their next steps on the fifth day of UN-backed military strikes on his oil-rich country.

“We will win this battle,” footage showed Gaddafi telling supporters at his Bab Al-Aziziyah compound in Tripoli, that was the target of a coalition missile strike.

Early yesterday, CNN reported coalition air strikes were launched overnight near the city of Misrata, east of Tripoli.