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  Libya denies report Gadhafi may be wounded
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Last EditedBrandonius Maximus  May 13, 2011 02:02pm
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News DateFriday, May 13, 2011 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionItaly said on Friday Moammar Gadhafi has very likely left the Libyan capital and probably been wounded by NATO air strikes, a report that Tripoli immediately dismissed as "nonsense."

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said he heard the report on Gadhafi from the bishop of Tripoli, Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli.

"I tend to give credence to the comment of the bishop of Tripoli, Monsignor Martinelli, who has been in close contact over recent weeks, when he told us that Gadhafi is very probably outside Tripoli and is probably also wounded. We don't know where or how," Frattini said.

NATO allies including the United States, Britain and France are bombing Libya as part of a U.N. mandate to protect civilians and they say they will not stop until the Libyan leader's 41-year rule ends.

There was no independent confirmation of Frattini's report. The Libyan government poured scorn on it.

"It's nonsense," Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said in Tripoli. "The leader is in high morale. He's in good spirits. He is leading the country day by day. He hasn't been harmed at all."

Meanwhile, Ibrahim also said 11 Muslim clerics were killed in their sleep by a NATO airstrike on the eastern oil town of Brega.
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