NATO denied Monday that alliance aircraft struck the country's state broadcaster in Tripoli and insisted the target was the military intelligence headquarters.

"We did not target or hit the Libyan broadcast facilities," Wing Commander Mike Bracken, the NATO mission spokesman, told AFP. "What we did target was the military intelligence headquarters in downtown Tripoli."

A Libyan information ministry official said warplanes had attacked offices of the Libyan state broadcaster on Sunday.

Bracken said the military intelligence facilities are "relatively close" to the state broadcaster and he accused the Kadhafi regime of making the claim as a "propaganda" tool.

Tripoli insists on credibility in baby case
Tripoli (AFP) June 6, 2011 - The Libyan regime insisted on its credibility on Monday after foreign journalists raised doubts over the case of a baby girl in hospital who officials said had been wounded in a NATO air strike.

Correspondents were taken to a Tripoli hospital on Sunday to see casualties from NATO air strikes and shown the child who was unconscious and hooked up to breathing equipment.

But a member of the hospital staff slipped a piece of paper into the pocket of one journalist, with a note in English: "This is a case of road traffic accident. This is the truth."

On Monday, Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaaim said he was unaware of the case and that journalists should ask doctors about the case.

"The government is credible," he insisted, adding the authorities were "not responsible for the words or actions of isolated people who want to show journalists the effects of the bombings on civilians."

Two loud blasts rock central Tripoli
Tripoli (AFP) June 6, 2011 - Two loud explosions on Monday rocked the centre of the Libyan capital, which has been the target of NATO air strikes, an AFP correspondent said.

The blasts echoed through the capital at around 1650 GMT.

Early on Monday, NATO air raids on Tripoli targeted the communications of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's battered regime, hitting offices of the state broadcaster and his military intelligence headquarters, officials said.

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