Libya Video: Qaddafi's 90-Minute Speech

A portion, in three videos, of Libya leader Muammar Qaddafi's 90-minute stream of consciousness on Tuesday:

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An EA Caption Competition: 4 Regime Leaders in Happier Times

Four gentlemen in happier times: deposed Tunisian President Zine Abedine Ben Ali, current Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, still-current Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, and ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Over to you, dear readers, for the appropriate inscription/epitaph: 

Libya Feature: In His Last Days, a Cruel Dictator Seeks a Facelift (Fisk)

So even the old, paranoid, crazed fox of Libya --- the pallid, infantile, droop-cheeked dictator from Sirte, owner of his own female praetorian guard, author of the preposterous Green Book, who once announced he would ride to a Non-Aligned Movement summit in Belgrade on his white charger – is going to ground. Or gone. Last night, the man I first saw more than three decades ago, solemnly saluting a phalanx of black-uniformed frogmen as they flappered their way across the sulphur-hot tarmac of Green Square on a torrid night in Tripoli during a seven-hour military parade, appeared to be on the run at last, pursued --- like the dictators of Tunis and Cairo --- by his own furious people.

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Latest Libya (and Beyond) Video: Qaddafi's 22-Second Speech

Latest claimed footage from North Africa and the Middle East: see also Libya and Beyond Video: Last Act of a Regime?

Claimed Footage of Youth Protest in Tripoli in Libya

A Scene from Benghazi, Libya's 2nd-Largest City, after "Liberation"

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Libya (and Beyond) LiveBlog: Qaddafi Hangs On With Fighter Jets and Bluster

2055 GMT: Al Jazeera is reporting two killed and 10 injured in an attempt on protesters at Sanaa University in Yemen.

2050 GMT: Another quote from former Minister of Interior (and former close Qaddafi friend) Abdul Fattah Younis, "(The bombing of civilians) pained me deeply, it is the main reason I decided to join this revolution."

2035 GMT: Here's a twist on this afternoon's Qaddafi speech....

The Libyan leader said, in his 90-minute ramble, that Minister of Interior Abdul Fattah Younis had survived an assassination attempt but was missing.

Well, tonight Younis has said, "Qaddafi's men came to shoot me but the bullets missed me."

2030 GMT: The office of Algerian President Addelaziz Bouteflika said he approved a Government decision to lift the 1992 State of Emergency.

The brief statement said the change was "imminent" but gave no date.

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Latest Libya (and Beyond) Video: Last Act of a Regime?

Full speech of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi's son Saif al Islam

Tripoli, Libya: Sunday Protest

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Libya, Bahrain (and Beyond) LiveBlog: Contrasts Heightened

2340 GMT: That, quite frankly, was a bizarre experience. No word on what has happened to Muammar Qaddafi, but Saif al Islam Qaddafi did appear to concede that some of the country is in the hands of the opposition. At the same time, there was the combination of the surreal threat --- drug dealers, foreign media, outside powers, Arabs and Africans --- and defiance.

More tomorrow. Meanwhile, coverage continues on our Live Feed from Al Jazeera English.

2338 GMT: Qaddafi's son concludes, "Our morale is high. May God make Libya a safe country. May God be with you."

2337 GMT: "We will fight to the last," he continues "We will not leave Libya." The Qaddafis will not allow Al Jazeera or Al Arabiya or the BBC to triumph.

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Libya, Bahrain (and Beyond) Video: The Conflict Escalates

Latest footage from across the Middle East and North Africa. See also Friday's collection, Libya, Bahrain (and Beyond): Filming Protest and Violence.

Libya: Claimed Footage of Protest in Misurata, East of Tripoli

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Libya, Bahrain (and Beyond) LiveBlog: Contrasts

2205 GMT: In Libya, Professor Ali Tarhouni has said tonight that protesters in Nalut, 300 km (185 miles) northeast of Tripoli, burnt down the headquarters of the Revolutionary Committee. Tarhouni also said there have been small skirmishes in Tripoli.

2200 GMT: A photograph of this afternoon's protest in Taiz in Yemen:

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Libya, Bahrain (and Beyond) Video: Filming Protest and Violence

The latest footage to come out of Libya, Bahrain, and other countries in the Middle East and North Africa: see also Libya Video: A Bloody "Day of Rage" and Bahrain Video: The Attack on Pearl Roundabout.

Yemen: Protests in Aden today

After the Shootings: Protests at the Hospital in Bahrain:

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