Italian foreign minister's outrageous lies

I wonder where they get the nerve? Or is it simple desperation at not making any "progress" in Libya?

"Frattini told reporters that he believed what he had been told by Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, the Catholic bishop in Tripoli, that Gaddafi had probably left Tripoli and had probably even been wounded by NATO airstrikes."  


Bishop Martinelli denies ever having said anything of the sort:  "What the foreign minister said is not right because I never said that the Libyan leader was wounded," Martinelli told Radio France Internationale.

"I only said that he was under psychological shock from the death of his son. I did not say he was wounded or that he left Tripoli."

"Bishop Giovanni Martinelli remarked on April 27 saying, “The United Nations has decided to make war and to not allow any form of dialogue as a means of resolving disputes.” He described the escalation of fighting as “a defeat for humanity,” saying that “nothing will change” on account of the Western powers’ intervention."