Posted on 08/27/2004 7:27:52 AM PDT by Traianus
Italy horror at hostage execution Black arm bands for Italian team at Olympics Friday, August 27, 2004 Posted: 1052 GMT (1852 HKT)
Baldoni: "A tragic, incomprehensible, Italian bereavement."
ROME, Italy -- Italy reacted with horror at the killing of hostage Enzo Baldoni in Iraq, with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi insisting that Italian troops would not leave.
"There are no words for an inhumane act that ... cancels centuries of civilization to bring us back to the Dark Ages," Berlusconi said in a statement.
In Athens, Italians competing at the Olympic Games were to honor Enzo Baldoni, 56, by wearing black arm bands during Friday's events, a spokesman for the Italian Olympic team told Reuters. (Full story)
They included the Italian men's soccer team, which plays Iraq in the bronze medal match in the Olympic tournament later Friday in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.
In an interview with RAI state radio, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said the killing of freelance journalist Baldoni was "an act of barbarity, a horrendous act that has struck a courageous journalist who had gone to Iraq to help the Iraqi people." (Italian journalist slain)
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I hope Italy kills Iraq is soccer since their coach is such an ungrateful bastard.
Should the response not be for every hostage taken we send in 5,000 more troops?
FORZA ITALIA!!!!!!! Beat them with your shoes!
No one deserves to b killed even your opponent....
THE ENEMY DOES not KILL US 4 what WE THINK, BUT 4 WHAT WE ARE...
REMEMBER...
I WILL CRY 4 MOORE TOO IF HIS LIFE ONE DAY WILL END LIKE ENZO BALDONI...
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