Gadhafi's youngest son, grandkids killed in NATO attack
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TRIPOLI, Libya — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi survived a NATO missile strike Saturday that killed his youngest son and three grandchildren and wounded friends and relatives, Libya's spokesman said.
Gadhafi and his wife were in the Tripoli house of son Saif al-Arab Gadhafi, 29, when it was hit by at least one missile fired by a NATO warplane, according to Libyan spokesman Moussa Ibrahim.
Libyan officials took journalists to the one-story house in a wealthy residential neighborhood. Some areas of the roof were caved in, leaving strings of reinforcing steel hanging down among chunks of concrete.
A table football machine stood outside in the garden of the house.
Ibrahim said the villa was attacked "with full power."
"This was a direct operation to assassinate the leader of this country," the spokesman added.
"The leader himself is in good health," Ibrahim said. "He was not harmed. The wife is also in good health."
Saif al-Arab Gadhafi, the colonel's sixth son, had spent much of his time in Germany in recent years.
The strike came after Gadhafi early Saturday called for negotiations with NATO powers to end airstrikes on Libya.
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TRIPOLI, Libya — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi survived a NATO missile strike Saturday that killed his youngest son and three grandchildren and wounded friends and relatives, Libya's spokesman said.
Gadhafi and his wife were in the Tripoli house of son Saif al-Arab Gadhafi, 29, when it was hit by at least one missile fired by a NATO warplane, according to Libyan spokesman Moussa Ibrahim.
Libyan officials took journalists to the one-story house in a wealthy residential neighborhood. Some areas of the roof were caved in, leaving strings of reinforcing steel hanging down among chunks of concrete.
A table football machine stood outside in the garden of the house.
Ibrahim said the villa was attacked "with full power."
"This was a direct operation to assassinate the leader of this country," the spokesman added.
"The leader himself is in good health," Ibrahim said. "He was not harmed. The wife is also in good health."
Saif al-Arab Gadhafi, the colonel's sixth son, had spent much of his time in Germany in recent years.
The strike came after Gadhafi early Saturday called for negotiations with NATO powers to end airstrikes on Libya.
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