Nato won't win, Gaddafi screams

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has issued an audio message, screaming and daring Nato to continue striking his capital. He warns the Western alliance faces defeat.

The message was played on Libyan television today over pictures of a few thousand people demonstrating in Tripoli’s Green Square.

Gaddafi shouted out that men defecting from his regime and army are just as cowardly as those who have taken up arms in the four-month rebellion to oust his regime. At one point he made a spitting sound.

“We are steadfast,” he shouted. “Let then (Nato) strike.”

He refuses to step down, insisting “we are in our country and we insist on staying until death. We don’t want reconciliation and we don’t want talks with them. We are steadfast.”