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NATO
doesn't know if Gaddafi is dead or alive
Wednesday May 11, 2011 08:47:50 AM,
AKI
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Naples: NATO said
Tuesday it was unaware of embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
being dead or alive and denied its air strikes on Tripoli were
aimed to kill him.
"All NATO targets are military targets, which means that the
targets we've been hitting are command and control bunkers," NATO
spokesman Claudio Gabellini told reporters, adding "and it
happened also last night in Tripoli".
"NATO is not targeting individuals," he said via videolink from
the operation's headquarters in Naples, Italy.
When asked whether Gaddafi was still still alive, the Italian NATO
general said: "We don't have any evidence. We don't know what
Gaddafi is doing right now."
Fresh sorties by Nato warplanes struck the Libyan capital late
Monday and early Tuesday in some of the heaviest bombing missions
in weeks. The air strikes reportedly targeted a military base and
a compound used by Gaddafi.
Nato earlier rejected claims by Libya Tuesday that the military
alliance attacked the Supreme Court building in Tripoli and
various civilian targets.
Since the Nato mission in Libya began March 31, its jets have
conducted a total of 5,968 sorties, including more than 2,300
strike missions, the alliance said Tuesday.
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