{EOP}Gaddafi calls NATO a Cowardly Crusader

Libyan state television carried brief audio remarks it said were by leader Muammar Gaddafi on Friday in which he taunted NATO as a cowardly crusader and said he was in a place they could not reach. The comments came after Italy's foreign minister said Gaddafi had very likely left the Libyan capital and probably been wounded by NATO air strikes, an account Tripoli dismissed.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi

"I tell the cowardly crusader (NATO) that I live in a place they cannot reach and where you cannot kill me", said Gaddafi. "Even if you kill the body you will not be able to kill the soul that lives in the hearts of millions", Gaddafi said, adding he received a "massive" number of calls following a NATO air strike on his Bab al-Aziziyah compound in Tripoli on Thursday.

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said he heard the report on Gaddafi 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 Gaddafi is very probably outside Tripoli and is probably also wounded. We don't know where or how," Frattini told reporters in Italy. Ibrahim said Italy's remarks were cover for a "horrendous" NATO strike that hit a guesthouse in the eastern city of Brega on Friday that killed 11 people and wounded 45, five of whom were in critical condition. State television showed footage of at least nine bodies with multiple wounds, wrapped in blankets. A NATO official in Naples said they did not have any information on the report. "Once again NATO proves to the world that it has lost all human values and it is an alliance of barbarians," said Ibrahim.

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