Take 5 Embattled Voices

You are a man who has enough courage to annul a wrong and mistaken action... Libya should be left to Libyans within the African union frame. You are in a position to keep Nato off the Libyan affair for good.

Mumammar Gaddafi

You are a man who has enough courage to annul a wrong and mistaken action8230; Libya should be left to Libyans within the African union frame. You are in a position to keep Nato off the Libyan affair for good.

Gaddafis three-page letter to Obama,whom he addressed as Our dear son,Excellency,Baraka Hussein Abu oumama. The letter,dated April 5,2011,is signed Muaumer Qaddaffi,Leader of the Revolution.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

We stand steadfast,firm as mountains,and will not be shaken by the events. The legitimate authority is firm and steadfast in face of challenges,and we shall not allow a small minority to overcome the majority of the Yemeni people.

Yemens embattled President,Ali Abdullah Saleh,in a speech to tribal chiefs a day after telling his supporters that he would hand power only to safe hands.

Hosni Mubarak

I was hurt very much,and I am still hurtingmy family and Ifrom the unjust campaigns against us and false allegations that aim to smear my reputation,my integrity,my stances and my military history.

Two months after being forced out of power,former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak said in taped remarks to Al Arabiya television. He argued that he and his family were victims of a smear campaign.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

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Preliminary data8230; have established that the Kazakh people,our citizens,approve of the work I have been doing all these 20 years. What other honours8230;is needed for a person who heads the countrythe president.

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev,70,on April 3,after he won his fourth term by a record 95.6 per cent votes. International observers criticised his election win,saying it was riddled with serious irregularities.

Laurent Gbagbo

The Ivory Coast government believes France is looking for a pretext to resume bombings on the presidential palace. If there are attacks on the embassy,its not Gbagbos forces. Nobody has been attacked.

A spokesperson for Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo pic to Reuters after the French embassy claimed that forces loyal to Gbagbo had fired rockets at the residence of the French ambassador in Ivory Coast.