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Gaddafi Taunts NATO in New Tape

Says "cowardly crusader" will never take him out.

Is Muammar Gaddafi playing hide and seek? Audio remarks believed to be recorded by the dictator were broadcast on Libyan state television Friday, Reuters reports, with Gaddafi taunting NATO. "I tell the cowardly crusader [NATO] that I live in a place they cannot reach and where you cannot kill me... I live in the hearts of millions," said the voice on the recording. The remarks were televised shortly after Italy's foreign minister said Gaddafi had most likely left the Libyan capital after being wounded by NATO airstrikes, which hit his compound on Thursday. Tripoli immediately declared the report to be false, though Italy's foreign minister said he heard the report from the bishop of Tripoli.