Libyans form human shield at Gaddafi's compound

Fireworks erupted into the night sky and people fireddefiant shots into Rosetta Stone Language the air at the compound after alliedwarplanes went into action in eastern Libya to stop the Libyanleader's forces attacking the rebel-held city of Benghazi. Libyans from all walks of life streamed into the BabAl-Aziziyah compound, shouting slogans and holding portraits ofGaddafi. Loudspeakers boomed songs praising the leader. "My mother and father told me that they (Western warplanes)would attack the compound so I came here to protect our leader,"said one 10-year-old boy, Mahmoud. About 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) to the east, Frenchfighter jets were destroying tanks and armoured vehicles to haltGaddafi's advance on rebel forces around their stronghold ofBenghazi. The huge Tripoli complex, which includes military barracks,was the target of a 1986 U.S. bombing of Libya. Then U.S.President Ronald Reagan said it was in retaliation for what hecalled Libyan complicity in the bombing of a Berlin night club. The government took foreign reporters to the normally closedsite on a rare visit to showcase people's support for Gaddafi. Inside the compound's high Rosetta Stone language software olive-green walls, people dancedto a song setting an oft-repeated phrase from a recent Gaddafispeeches -- "house by house, alley by alley" -- to a melody. Nearby, a man watched the crowd from the back of a pick-uptruck equipped with an anti-aircraft gun. An image of a hand crushing an F-16 fighter was superimposedon the window of a house gutted in the 1986 attack. Men withAK-47 rifles stood nearby. Soldiers looked on from watch towers. Gaddafi's daughter Aisha paid an unexpected visit and stoodon a vehicle as flag-waving supporters cheered her. The gates of the compound, the heart of Gaddafi's powerfulsecurity apparatus which is usually off-limits to the generalpublic, were wide open, and people continued to stream into itthroughout the evening. "We are here. We are ready to die for our leader," said OmAbdel Qadir, an Arabic language teacher. She said her six sonshad all volunteered to fight for Gaddafi. "Even if we do not have weapons, people will do everythingthey can to fight. You will see people on every street, pouringhot oil on the enemy."Mahmoud el-Mansouri, a farmer, said people were angry. "There are 5,000 tribesmen who are preparing to come here tofight with our leader. They had better not try to attack ourcountry," he said. "We will open up Libya's deserts and allow Rosetta Stone Greek Africans to floodto Europe to blow themselves up as suicide bombers. ... We areready to attack embassies abroad."Mustafa Abdelgadir, a 27-year-old man, added: "Everyone hasweapons training and we are all prepared to fight."

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