Posted on 09/29/2004 9:12:51 AM PDT by Ace
And these savages know they can count on Italy to fund their terrorism.
Brilliant...
And weren't those two female hostages a couple of anti-war activists? Could they have been in on it?
We need to find out who is doing this and get to thier families.
According to Kuwait TV, 1 million and medical treatment for 10-15 Iraiqs in western hospitals..
Now, how do they say "no" when another woman ... or any other Italian is kidnapped? Do they get sued by the survivors if the next hostage is killed due to their not paying?
It looks like Italy is funding terrorists now. What happened to the mafia? Bunch of whimps.
Nothing new.
Well, maybe Italy now can take pride for the next embassy bombing... hey, maybe the Vatican next time. Good job Italy...
Has that whole continent lost it's balls to fight? If that's the case, pull out and nuke the place flat. If they don't care enough to protect their people from this ongoing crap, then why should we sacrifice one more soldier because of them. BAH!
I'm sure they, and their families, think a lot differently than most here on FR about this.
At the very least, Berlesconi ought to make all the leftist "charitable" organizations come home or face the fact that there is NO ransom money left for them should the Islamists snatch more Italians.
WTH? What about the NEXT TIME? Guess the NEXT TIME it won't be needed.
Ingrates, but then again, it's a small percentage ruining things for the rest of Iraqis... same thing often applies here as we all know.
---Details of their replies filtering in the Italian media suggest the women were not mistreated as their captors became satisfied they were aid workers helping the poor in Iraq - and not Western spies.
"We were treated well, with warmth and solidarity," Simona Pari said in quotes carried by Italian news agency Ansa.
"They understood our work and from that moment on the situation improved," said the other hostage, Simona Torrettta.
"They were people who treated us with a lot of respect and dignity."---
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3699982.stm
Warmth and solidarity...
Heres hoping that 1MM plus millions more which will now paid dont go to blowing up your town....
Coming soon to a News program near you....
More Italian hostages were taken today, bringing the number to around 50. Italian officials to approach the World Bank and America for loans to pay the ransoms...
Some people just don't get it..
I have never been, before today, ashamed to be of Italian heritage.
I am now.
Nah, most of them are good people.
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