Gadhafi’s daughter sends defiant message

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At first, it seemed right, now I'm not so sure. Is there any moral point in continuing?I'm sympathetic when I see a daughter rise up. Good for her from her viewpoint

anyway.

Aisha Gadhafi, daughter of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, waves as she addresses Libyan people gathering at the Bab Al Azizia compound in Tripoli, Libya, early Friday, April 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

By Karin Laub

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Associated Press

7:20 a.m., Friday, April 15, 2011

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — From her father’s compound, struck by U.S. bombs exactly 25 years ago, Moammar Gadhafi’s daughter sent a defiant message early Friday: Libya was not defeated by airstrikes then and won’t be defeated now, she told a cheering crowd.

The daughter, Aisha, pumped her right fist as she led the audience in late-night chants from the second-floor balcony of the badly damaged Bab Aziziyah compound, targeted by U.S. warplanes in 1986. “Leave our skies with your bombs,†she said, referring to NATO airstrikes that had struck Tripoli just hours earlier.

Gadhafi, in power for 42 years, has been testing the international community’s resolve on the battle field. On Thursday, his forces shelled the besieged western Libyan town of Misrata, where rebels are clinging to positions near the port area, their only link to the outside world.

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