Posted on 09/15/2006 12:02:11 AM PDT by lizol
Report: Italian Writer Oriana Fallaci Dies
The Associated Press
Friday, September 15, 2006; 2:50 AM
ROME -- Veteran journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci, a former war correspondent best known for her abrasive interviews and provocative stances, has died, Italian news reports said Friday. She was 76.
Fallaci, who had been diagnosed with cancer years ago, died in a Florence hospital, the Italian agencies ANSA and Apcom said. The reports said that she had been hospitalized for days.
Fallaci, a former Resistance fighter and war corespondent who was hardly seen in public, had lived in New York for years.
During her journalistic career she became known for uncompromising interviews with such world leaders as former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Her recent publications _ including the best-selling book "The Rage and The Pride," which came out weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 _ drew accusations of inciting hatred against Muslims.
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Her life would make a fantastic movie!..........
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I am afraid to go over and look at DU and see what they are writing about her, now...................
She met with the pope in the last year, perhaps she converted? I hope so.
She was such a gutsy, intellegent woman, and she will be missed.
Very sad. A woman of courage who was not afraid to see things as they are and speak the truth. If only those in Congress (especially the cowards in the Senate who just showed their yellow stripes with that one vote on interrogation policy) would have her courage.
Requiescat in pace.
Her life would make a fantastic movie!..........
It would be boycotted by those on FR
A voice of reason is taken from us when we needed her most.
RIP
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