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Tripoli \u2013 A senior aide to Muammar Gaddafi\u2019s influential son Saif has resigned. He is the latest top official to walk out after the Libyan leader vowed to crush a revolt that threatens his four-decade rule.<\/p>\n

\u201cI resigned from the Gaddafi Foundation on Sunday to express dismay against violence,\u201d Youssef Sawani said in a text message sent to a Reuters correspondent on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

He was executive director of the foundation, which has been Saif al-Islam\u2019s main vehicle for wielding influence.<\/p>\n

A defiant Muammar Gaddafi in a long and rambling speech on Tuesday said he was ready to die \u201ca martyr\u201d in Libya.<\/p>\n

He urged his supporters to take to the streets on Wednesday to crush the uprising that has seen eastern regions break free of his 41-year rule and brought deadly unrest to the capital.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not going to leave this land. I will die here as a martyr,\u201d Gaddafi said on state television, refusing to bow to calls from some of his own ministers, soldiers and protesters who braved a fierce crackdown to clamour for him to go.<\/p>\n

Popular protests in Libya\u2019s neighbours Egypt and Tunisia have toppled entrenched leaders, but Gaddafi said he would not be forced out by the rebellion sweeping through his vast oil-producing nation of just seven million people.<\/p>\n

\u201cI shall remain here defiant,\u201d said Gaddafi, who has ruled the mainly desert country with a mixture of populism and tight control since taking power in a military coup in 1969.<\/p>\n

In New York, the UN Security Council condemned the use of violence and called for those responsible for attacks on civilians to be held to account.<\/p>\n

The turmoil in Libya, which pumps nearly two per cent of world oil output, sent Brent crude prices above 108 dollars a barrel to a 2 1\/2 year high and triggered Wall Street\u2019s worst day since August as investors dumped stocks.<\/p>\n

The White House said global powers must speak with one voice in response to the \u201cappalling violence\u201d in Libya and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. would take \u201cappropriate steps\u201d in time.<\/p>\n

But Washington has little leverage over Libya, which was a U.S. adversary for most of Gaddafi\u2019s rule until it agreed in 2003 to abandon a weapons-of-mass-destruction programme and moved to settle claims from the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
(Reuters\/NAN)<\/p>\n

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