Gaddafi vows to fight on as air strikes intensify

LIBYAN leader Muammar Gaddafi vowed last night on state television to fight to the end, after NATO intensified air strikes on Tripoli.

“We only have one choice: we will stay in our land dead or alive,” he said in the fiery audio address, calling on his supporters to flock to his Bab al-Aziziya compound.

Waves of NATO aircraft hit the Libyan capital yesterday, including targets in the vicinity of the vast Bab al-Aziziya residential compound, in the most sustained bombardment of the Libyan capital since Western forces began air strikes in March.