He appears so civilized, articulate and "western" in his interviews with the international media. However, CNN showed a smuggled video of him speaking to his supporters. Standing on a sandbag wall, presumably near the "front line", he had an army jacket on, brandishing a military assault rifle, and it was one of those screaming, rambling, wild-eyed diatribes you'd expect from a delusional dictator-type whose heart is full of blood-lust (chip off the old block).