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April 30, 2005
Giuliana Sgrena, the Italian journalist taken hostage in Iraq, has made claims that the car they were in after she was freed March 4, 2005 was travelling at a normal rate of speed when it approached a US checkpoint and ...
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March 18, 2005
To all the people who whined about Silvio Berlusconi announcing Italy will pull troops out of Iraq starting in September, I wonder if they will now bash the US, as I questioned in my entry on the Italy pullout. The ...
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March 16, 2005
This is a surprise to most as Berlusconi has been a pretty staunch supporter of the Iraqi conflict since day one. However, with things winding up over there and more Iraqi's defending themselves I can see his point. Some would ...
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March 13, 2005
Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has now promised President Bush the Italians will no longer pay ransom for hostage. A little late in coming for my tastes. I wonder if this will be tested by the terrorists by taking another ...
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March 07, 2005
Here's a few little updates on the Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena. The Car Giuliana Sgrena Claims Was Shot 3-400 timesThe Car Bonnie And Clyde Died InBoth Were Shot Over 50 Times In An Ambush First we have the car (pictured ...
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March 06, 2005
Giuliana Sgrena, the freed Italian Journalist who was being held hostage in Iraq by terrorists, claimed that US forces deliberately targeted her for attack. The car she was in was speeding towards a checkpoint at Baghdad airport when the checkpoint ...
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March 04, 2005
Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena who has been held hostage by terrorists in Iraq since February 4, 2005 has been released. It did not go smooth however and the car she was in sped towards a checkpoint without stopping. The ...
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February 16, 2005
A video tape of Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena, who was taken hostage Feb 4, 2005, was released this morning by the terrorists who are holding her hostage. In the video she is pleading in French and Italian for all ...
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February 10, 2005
The saga of Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena continues. Just days after a terrorist group claimed to have executed her, her employer, Il Manifesto, now says it has contact through a third party who has seen her multiple times. The exact ...
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February 08, 2005
The Mujahedeen Brigade In Iraq has claimed to have executed Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena. This is the third group to have claimed having taken hostage Sgrena. The first was The Islamic Jihad Organization then on Feb. 6 The Jihad Organization ...
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February 07, 2005
It has been announced by the terrorist group the Jihad Organization that an Italian reporter Giuliana Sgrena, 56, is to be released in "the next few days". Sgrena was ambushed and taken hostage Feb. 4, along with 3 Iraqi's, in ...
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February 06, 2005
Two separate groups are claiming they have Italian reporter Giuliana Sgrena. The first group, the Islamic Jihad Organization, set a 72 hour deadline for Italy to remove it's troops from Iraq. The second and latest group, the Jihad Organization, says ...
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February 04, 2005
Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian Journalist working out of Iraq for the Rome daily Il Manifesto was taken hostage. She was seized while in her car with two Iraqi reporters and a driver, who were all later released. The terrorists took ...
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December 16, 2004
A formerly unknown terrorist group calling itself Islamic Movement of Iraqi Mujahedeen has claimed to have killed an Italian hostage. Salvatore Santoro, 52, of the southern Campania region near Naples has claimed to have been killed by the group. ...
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October 01, 2004
Simona Torretta, one of the two Italian hostages released days ago, has called for the pull out of Italian troops from Iraq. AP Reuters ... [she] said guerrillas there were right to fight U.S.-led forces and their Iraqi "puppet government." ...
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September 29, 2004
There are numerous reports floating around that Italy paid a $1 million ransom for the release of the two hostages, Simona Pari And Simona Torretta, who were taken hostage September 7th and released on September 28th. Reuters Gustavo Selva, ...
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September 28, 2004
Could this possibly be accurate? Al Jazeera is reporting that the two Italian women, Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, being held hostage in Iraq have been released. Two Italian women aid workers held hostage in Iraq have been released and ...
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September 26, 2004
Jane at Armies of Liberation has tipped me off to an article at Xinhuanet. The article refers to a story in Al Ray Al-Aam, Kuwait's top newspaper, claiming the Italian aide workers, Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, are in good ...
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September 23, 2004
I saw this headline last night when Rusty posted it and I was walking out the door to my kids Back to School. It pretty much put a damper on everything for me and was a sullen night. I came ...
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September 19, 2004
The Italian women taken hostage in Iraq on Sep. 7th may have been sold to al-Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. That is the latest news from Iraqi Foreign Minister Hamid al-Bayati. San Diego Union-Tribune "From the information at our disposal, ...
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September 13, 2004
Friday, Sep.10, a previously unknown group calling themselves the Supporters of al-Zawahri posted an Internet statement claiming to have "details about two kidnapped women aid workers" if all Muslim women held in Iraqi prisons be let go. Now a second ...
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September 10, 2004
The fate of two Italian, pacifist, aid workers who were taken hostage may never be known. Autralian MILITANTS loyal to al-Qaeda's No.2 have given Italy 24 hours to promise to release Muslim women prisoners in Iraq in exchange for details ...
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September 08, 2004
So, the terrorists have sunk to a new low. Directly attacking an aid group out to help the Iraqi people to simply eat, get health care and survive through this turbulent time for them. The aid agency has no ...
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August 26, 2004
The flaming cowards who kidnapped a peaceful Italian reporter off of the street and then killed him are about to taste some serious hatred. I think the world has about had it with these pansy-ass wimps. Every civilian they kill ...
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Not only does Italy produce the finest cooks, inventors, artists, academics, women, graphic novels, musicians, hardest workers and lovers (OK, OK, you got me, I'm mostly Italian) they have now taught those spineless Filipinos a lesson in courage. My poor ...
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