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in an address at Sanaa University. "The events from Tunisia to Oman are a storm orchestrated from Tel Aviv and under Washington's supervision," he said.

"What is taking place on Yemen's streets is just a copycat attempt," he said. The protesters are "led from outside" and are in the pay of "Zionists," he charged.

Saleh also lashed out at U.S. President Barack Obama for his repeated calls for restraint by Arab regimes that had long been key allies and his support for the popular protests that ousted veteran leaders in Egypt and Tunisia.

"Every day we hear a statement by Obama... (saying) Egypt don't do this, Tunisia don't do that... What does Obama have to do with Oman, what does he have to do with Egypt? You are the U.S. president," he said.

laughed at the suggestion he would leave Libya and said he felt betrayed by world leaders who have urged him to quit.

"I'm surprised that we have an alliance with the West to fight Al Qaeda, and now that we are fighting terrorists they have abandoned us," Mr Gaddafi said.

"Perhaps they want to occupy Libya."

He called US president Barack Obama a "good man" but said he appeared to be misinformed about the situation in Libya.

"The statements I have heard from him must have come from someone else," he said. "America is not the international police of the world."

We are saying you have to leave Afghanistan for the Afghanis. You have leave Iraq for the Iraqis. Leave them even if they fight each other. They are free to do so. The civil war took place even in the USA. Nobody interfered. The civil war also took place in Spain and in China and in many parts of the world and nobody interfered. If it is a civil war let it go on. Leave it for the Iraqis and for the Afghans to fight each other, they are free.