document: Entrenched Ivory Coast leader calls for resistance ABIDJAN , Ivory Coast -LRB- AP -RRB- - A rebel offensive aiming to unseat Ivory Coast 's strongman appeared to encounter resistance Saturday , as soldiers loyal to the entrenched ruler seized back the state television station and broadcast a call to arms . In a televised address on Saturday morning , Laurent Gbagbo 's military spokesman Lt. Col. Alphonse Guano called on security forces to report for duty and to resist attacks by fighters loyal to internationally recognized president Alassane Ouattara . A disheveled TV announcer said Gbagbo was at his residence Saturday and that it had not been attacked . In just five days , the force aiming to install the democratically elected Ouattara had succeeded in taking nearly 80 percent of Ivory Coast , before entering Abidjan and encircling both the presidential residence and the palace . Overnight , however , the shooting near the palace and the residence died down , suggesting that the armed group had been pushed back . A fighter with Ouattara 's forces , Boubacar Drame , said that they were waiting for reinforcements . Gbagbo 's Europe-based adviser Toussaint Alain told reporters in Paris that Gbagbo is still in his residence '' `` like Sarkozy at the Elysee and Obama at the White House , '' '' referring to the French and U.S. presidents . However , Gbagbo 's whereabouts could not be confirmed Saturday and the phones of his close aides rang unanswered . And a resident living near Gbagbo 's residence in Abidjan 's Cocody neighborhood said that at around 9 a.m. the shooting restarted after a mostly quiet night . '' `` I am just 1 kilometer -LRB- 0.6 mile -RRB- from the residence . There are volleys of shots , '' '' said Yeo N'Dri . Heavy machine-gun fire erupted just after noon at one end of the lagoonside highway leading to the palace , around two city blocks from the gate of the presidential compound . An adviser to Ouattara who asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the press said the loss of the TV station was a setback , but that Ouattara 's forces were still at both the residence and the palace and were readying for battle . He said Ouattara told him fighters had surrounded the palace but that they stopped shooting , to give Gbagbo time to surrender overnight . '' `` He said there has been too much blood , '' '' said the adviser . '' `` Ouattara does not want for Gbagbo to die . But he also said that patience has a limit . '' '' The battle for the country 's most important city has come at a terrible price . On Tuesday , the day after Ouattara 's forces took the western town of Duekoue , intercommunal fighting broke out , killing at least 800 people , according to the International Committee of the Red Cross . Patrick Nicholson , spokesman for the Roman Catholic charity Caritas , told The Associated Press that Caritas workers visited one neighborhood in Duekoue that was filled with bodies of victims killed by gunshots and hacked to death with machetes . He estimates the death toll was as high as 1,000 . It 's unclear if Ouattara 's forces were involved in the attack , and Duekoue has been the scene of communal violence before . Ouattara 's government Saturday denied their fighters were involved in any atrocities , and blamed the killings on Gbagbo forces acting as they retreated . Gbagbo , 65 , has not been seen in public since the offensive began , but those in his inner circle said Friday he was still in Abidjan and would fight until the end . Ouattara has ordered land and sea borders closed to seal all the exits in case Gbagbo attempts to flee . Ouattara 's victory with 54 percent of the vote in last November 's election was recognized first by the country 's electoral commission and then by governments around the world . Leaders from U.S. President Barack Obama to French President Nicolas Sarkozy have made personal appeals to Gbagbo to step down . At least 1,500 foreign nationals have taken refuge since the offensive began at the French military base in Abidjan , said Cmdr. Frederic Daguillon , spokesman for the French forces in Ivory Coast .
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