http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L27241520.htmROME, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Saturday denied quotes attributed to him in a newspaper report that said he had received information about a plan to attack the Vatican on Christmas Day.
The article published on Saturday in the Milan newspaper Libero quoted Berlusconi as saying he had received "precise and verified news of an attack on Rome on Christmas Day... A hijacked plane above the Vatican... An attack from the sky."
Berlusconi issued a one-sentence statement a few hours after the article appeared in which he implied that the journalist who wrote the article, Renato Farina, had made up quotes. A spokeswoman for his office confirmed that this was his meaning.
Farina told Reuters: "I did not invent anything." He described himself as a friend of Berlusconi.
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