Contradicting statements by the Foreign Minister of Italy, the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said Friday, May 13 that the NATO bombing could not reach it because it is worn in "the hearts of millions of Libyans," in a message audio broadcast Friday, May 13 in the evening by state television. Gaddafi says he is in a place "unachievable" and condemned the raid by NATO against his headquarters on Thursday.
Earlier in the day, the Italian foreign minister, Franco Frattini, said that Gaddafi had probably been wounded by NATO raids and it was probably more in the Libyan capital. The Minister relied on statements from the bishop of Tripoli, Western criticism of the operation and "in close contact with the regime," said Franco Frattini.
The spokesman for the Libyan government immediately responded by calling the remarks "absurd". "[Gaddafi] is upbeat, he runs the country day after day. It is not at all hurt," said Moussa Ibrahim, spokesman for the Libyan government. He said he was in Tripoli and "healthy". Asked about the denial of Tripoli, Frattini continued his remarks.
Fueling doubts about his own fate, Colonel Gaddafi did not show up in public since an April 30 raid by NATO in Tripoli, which have killed his youngest son, Saif al-Arab, and three her grandchildren. The Libyan authorities had then accused the Atlantic alliance of trying to assassinate him.
NATO, which took command of military operations on March 31, has denied targeting Qaddafi or his family, ensuring that air raids were military objectives located in the same district of Tripoli as the complex lives that Libyan leader . Libyan television broadcast images Wednesday evening tour of Gaddafi, she said, in the day during a meeting at a hotel in Tripoli with tribal leaders.
He was wearing a bathrobe and a cap and dark sunglasses. In an interview published on the website of Corriere della Sera, Frattini has questioned the authenticity of these images. "I highly doubt that these images have been shot that day and especially that they were taken to Tripoli," he said.
An official with the center of NATO operations in Naples recalled the line observed by the Alliance in Libya, which is not to target individuals in the airstrikes. "We can not verify this information since we have no way to trace the movements [Qaddafi]," he said. "We are not present on Libyan soil." Archbishop Martinelli left Tripoli to Tunis, said the bishop of Tripoli. 
Earlier in the day, the Italian foreign minister, Franco Frattini, said that Gaddafi had probably been wounded by NATO raids and it was probably more in the Libyan capital. The Minister relied on statements from the bishop of Tripoli, Western criticism of the operation and "in close contact with the regime," said Franco Frattini.
The spokesman for the Libyan government immediately responded by calling the remarks "absurd". "[Gaddafi] is upbeat, he runs the country day after day. It is not at all hurt," said Moussa Ibrahim, spokesman for the Libyan government. He said he was in Tripoli and "healthy". Asked about the denial of Tripoli, Frattini continued his remarks.
Fueling doubts about his own fate, Colonel Gaddafi did not show up in public since an April 30 raid by NATO in Tripoli, which have killed his youngest son, Saif al-Arab, and three her grandchildren. The Libyan authorities had then accused the Atlantic alliance of trying to assassinate him.
NATO, which took command of military operations on March 31, has denied targeting Qaddafi or his family, ensuring that air raids were military objectives located in the same district of Tripoli as the complex lives that Libyan leader . Libyan television broadcast images Wednesday evening tour of Gaddafi, she said, in the day during a meeting at a hotel in Tripoli with tribal leaders.
He was wearing a bathrobe and a cap and dark sunglasses. In an interview published on the website of Corriere della Sera, Frattini has questioned the authenticity of these images. "I highly doubt that these images have been shot that day and especially that they were taken to Tripoli," he said.
An official with the center of NATO operations in Naples recalled the line observed by the Alliance in Libya, which is not to target individuals in the airstrikes. "We can not verify this information since we have no way to trace the movements [Qaddafi]," he said. "We are not present on Libyan soil." Archbishop Martinelli left Tripoli to Tunis, said the bishop of Tripoli.
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