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NATO strike on Gadhafi Houston doctors say Giffords can attend launch compound badly damages buildings TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — NATO airstrikes targeted the center of Moammar Gadhafi’s seat of power early Monday, unleashing guided bombs that destroyed a multistory library and office in his compound and badly damaged a reception hall for visiting dignitaries. A government official said at a news conference at the site that three people had been killed and 45 injured, 15 of them seriously. However, a security official had told journalists when they first visited the scene hours earlier that only four people had been slightly injured. There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy. Gadhafi’s whereabouts at the time of the attack on his sprawling Bab al-Aziziya compound were unclear. He has made infrequent public appearances in Tripoli during the fighting that broke out in February between his forces and rebel groups. Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said Gadhafi is not in hiding. “He is well. He is healthy. He is in high spirits,” said Ibrahim, adding that officials considered the airstrike an attempt on Gadhafi’s life and “an act of terrorism.” The strike on the compound — a military base where Gadhafi maintains an official residence — was a sign of mounting pressure on the regime. While NATO said the site was targeted as a military command post, it also delivered a strong message to the embattled leader that the alliance is widening its range of targets. While rebels control most of eastern Libya, Gadhafi is trying to keep control of the western half, which includes the capital of Tripoli. In recent days, opposition forces in western Libya drove Gadhafi’s troops out of the besieged rebel city of Misrata and also took control of a border crossing with Tunisia. Gadhafi’s troops on the outskirts of Misrata unleashed more shells into the city Monday following an especially bloody weekend that left at least 32 dead and dozens wounded. The latest shelling hit a residential area and killed 10 people, including an entire family, according to a doctor in Misrata who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared government retaliation. Mourners later carried six crudely constructed coffins of family members to a funeral near a mosque. The battle for Misrata, which has claimed hundreds of lives in the past two months, has become the focal point of the armed rebellion against Gadhafi since fighting elsewhere is deadlocked. Video of Misrata civilians being killed and wounded by Gadhafi’s heavy weapons, including Grad rockets and see LIBYA page 13
HOUSTON (AP) — Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is set to reach an important milestone this week when she ventures from her Houston rehabilitation hospital for the first time to watch her astronaut husband rocket into space history. Giffords and her doctors set the Cape Canaveral, Fla., trip as a goal early on in her rehabilitation. It was the hope of her husband, Mark Kelly, too as he trained to lead NASA’s next-to-last space shuttle flight. On Monday, doctors at TIRR Memorial Hermann hospital confirmed the congresswoman will fly to Florida to watch Kelly command the space shuttle Endeavour when it makes its final flight to the International Space Station. The doctors said Giffords is “medically able” to travel and that they view the trip as part of her rehabilitation from a Jan. 8 gunshot wound to the head. The congresswoman was wounded in a mass shooting that killed six people in Tucson, Ariz. It seems an extraordinary accomplishment now, that she would be able to attend the liftoff and that Kelly
would feel comfortable leaving her side to fly into space. The launch is set Friday afternoon, and President Barack Obama and his wife and two daughters will be there too. However, it’s unclear whether they’ll sit with Giffords. Kelly reported his wife said “awesome” and fistpumped when doctors told her she could attend the launch, according to a transcript of an interview with CBS’s Katie Couric that will be broadcast Monday on the Evening News. For brain injured patients like Giffords, goals and outings are key to rehab. Setting goals helps patients work toward something tangible, doctors say, while trips and outings can be used to reintroduce them to the community and see how they interact in different situations. “We routinely allow patients outside visits as part of their rehabilitation,” said Dr. Gerard Francisco, lead physician of the brain injury rehabilitation team and chief medical officer at TIRR. Francisco also is chairman of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School.
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — When he makes a trip to New Hampshire as a possible presidential hopeful this week, Donald Trump will start his day in Portsmouth, but his schedule is a mystery beyond that. The New Hampshire Republican Party said Monday that Trump will meet with reporters Wednesday morning at the Pease International
Tradeport in Portsmouth. Michael Cohen of the Trump Organization says no other details of his schedule will be announced until later that day. He says for security purposes, Trump’s exact whereabouts won’t be publicized. The real estate mogul and reality TV star also will be speaking at the Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce’s annual business expo May 11.
Trump keeping quiet about Wednesday trip to NH
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