There is a great tribute to her on Michele Malkin's site
"Oriana Fallaci, one of Italy's best-known writers and war correspondents who goaded the world's great and issued a vitriolic assault on Islam after the September 11 attacks on the United States, died on Friday aged 77.
Fallaci died in her home town of Florence after battling cancer for several years, a hospital official said.
Aggressive and provocative to the end, Fallaci made her name as a tenacious interviewer of some of the most famous leaders of the 20th century.
She quarreled with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, provoked U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger into likening himself to a cowboy, and tore off a chador (enveloping Islamic robe) in a meeting with Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
'A great Italian and brave writer has died who has led a life full of passion, full of love, with great civil courage,' Ferruccio De Bortoli, editor-in-chief of Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper, told Reuters."
WOW! She must have had a soul of steel.