Gaddafi pledges victory before crowd: Libyan TV

Tripoli (Libya), Mar 23: Libyan TV has broadcast what it said was a brief live address by ruler Muammar Gaddafi before supporters at his encampment near Tripoli, the Libyan capital.

It would be his first public appearance in a week, Gaddafi was shown standing on a balcony before a crowd of supporters.

Denouncing the coalition bombing attacks on his forces, he told them, "in the short term, we'll beat them, in the long term, we'll beat them."

The state TV said Gaddafi was speaking from his Bab Al-Aziziya residential compound, the same one hit by a cruise missile Sunday night.

AP