Tripoli:
From an unknown location, Muammar Gaddafi has called on the residents of the Libyan capital to "free Tripoli" from the "devils" who have overrun it.
In the speech, aired on Wednesday by local Al-Ouraba TV, Gaddafi sounds subdued and without his usual fiery rhetoric.
Addressing the people in Tripoli, Gaddafi asks: "Why are you letting them wreak havoc?"
The broadcast comes a day after hundreds of Libyan rebels stormed Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya fortress-like compound in the capital but found no sign of the longtime leader.
The pro-Gaddafi TV channel earlier quoted the Libyan leader as saying he had left the compound in a "tactical move" after 64 NATO airstrikes turned it to rubble.