Libyan President Denies Rumors of Son’s death

Libyan President Denies Rumors of Son’s death

Benghazi, Libya — A television station under the Libyan Government has broadcasted Wednesday an image of a man it claimed to be the youngest son of Moammar Gadhafi. The attempt of the TV station was to invalidate the claim of the rebels that he was killed during a NATO airstrike.

Last Friday, Rebels claimed that Khamis Gadhafi, 27, was killed in the town of Zlitan. He was the commander in one of the fully equipped and trained soldiers in the military of Libya. The Libyan Government laughed and mocked the claim and said that the rebels were using diversionary tactics to deflect the attention of the public after last week’s event where the military commander of the opposition was killed.

The TV station showed images of Khamis in a Tripoli hospital Tuesday visiting wounded people in the last NATO airstrike. If the images were indeed authentic, then it is the public’s first glance of Gadhafi’s son after recent report that he was already been killed.

The revolt in Libya has started last February of this year with the eastern part of the country already conquered by the rebels while the western part is still under Gadhafi’s resilient government. The state television station has showed funerals of several civilians innocently killed after a recent NATO airstrike Tuesday. However, NATO nullified the claim of the Libyan state television station about the civilian deaths. It was an unfounded allegations, NATO firmly stressed.

Posted by James Fried on Thursday August 11 2011, 6:34 AM EST. Ref: CNN. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News, World. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0