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Italy's Berlusconi Slightly Hurt in Tripod Attack
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Posted on 12/31/2004 12:22:13 PM PST by alessandrofiaschi

Italy's Berlusconi Slightly Hurt in Tripod Attack

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ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was slightly injured Friday when a tourist threw a camera tripod at him in a packed Rome square, an official from the prime minister's party said.

Berlusconi was hit behind the ear by the tripod during an impromptu walkabout in Piazza Navona shortly after sunset. The official said Berlusconi was bruised in the attack and had seen a doctor as a precautionary measure.

ANSA news agency said the assailant was a 28-year old bricklayer from northern Italy who was in Rome for the New Year holiday. He was seized immediately after the assault.

"I did it because I hate him," ANSA quoted the man as telling police. "I certainly didn't plan this, but when I saw him there greeting the crowds, I couldn't stop myself," he added.

Berlusconi's spokesman Paolo Bonaiuti said: "The prime minister is saddened, deeply saddened."

A spokesman for Berlusconi's Forza Italia (Go Italy) party said center-left opposition parties bore some responsibility for the attack for having created an atmosphere of hate in Italy.

"This is the predictable fruit of a certain culture whereby ... politicians systematically incite hatred," Sandro Bondi said.

Berlusconi, a billionaire businessman, regularly goes for unannounced walkabouts in central Rome and often stops for an ice cream in a Piazza Navona cafe.


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KEYWORDS: assault; assaulted; berlusconi; bittenbya3leggeddog; communists; italy; left; leftists; liberals; rats
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1 posted on 12/31/2004 12:22:13 PM PST by alessandrofiaschi
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To: alessandrofiaschi

Taken from:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&u=/nm/20041231/wl_nm/italy_berlusconi_attack_dc_1&printer=1


2 posted on 12/31/2004 12:23:12 PM PST by alessandrofiaschi
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To: CThomasFan; Libertina; superskunk; presidio9; american colleen; sinkspur; Lady In Blue; ...
PING!

3 posted on 12/31/2004 12:24:06 PM PST by alessandrofiaschi
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To: alessandrofiaschi

Why isn't this in Breaking News?


4 posted on 12/31/2004 12:24:35 PM PST by Lazamataz ("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
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To: alessandrofiaschi
Berlusconi was hit behind the ear by the tripod...
ANSA news agency said the assailant was a 28-year old bricklayer ...

Well, I guess that given the assailant was a bricklayer, it could have been worse :-)

5 posted on 12/31/2004 12:25:10 PM PST by krb (TANSTAAFB)
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To: Lazamataz

It is. :)


6 posted on 12/31/2004 12:25:12 PM PST by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: alessandrofiaschi
I read the headline and thought of the tripods in the novel The War of the Worlds.

I hope they wall this guy up in punishment.

7 posted on 12/31/2004 12:26:43 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Mobius Consistency Strip: I was for George W. Bush before I was for him.)
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To: michigander
It is. :)

Then why isn't it Breakinger?

8 posted on 12/31/2004 12:28:01 PM PST by Lazamataz ("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
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To: Lazamataz

I see it in Breaking News.


9 posted on 12/31/2004 12:28:07 PM PST by Baraonda (Demographic is destiny. Don't hire 3rd world illegal aliens nor support businesses that hire them.)
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To: alessandrofiaschi

"This is the predictable fruit of a certain culture whereby ... politicians systematically incite hatred,"

And I am getting pretty sick of it all. Some politicians and leaders SHOULD be hated - like Hussein and Castro - but they are coddled. Then great ones like Reagan, are often hated. It is just crazy.


10 posted on 12/31/2004 12:28:23 PM PST by buffyt (~ Happy Freeper New Year All ! ~)
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My dear friends, it's not simple living in Italy for a conservative. Mr. Berlusconi is a friend of President Bush and Tony Blair. I'm proud of this relationship but we, the right, are living in a climate of hatred. I'm very sad.


11 posted on 12/31/2004 12:29:14 PM PST by alessandrofiaschi
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To: Baraonda
I see it in Breaking News.

I want it Breakingist! I want to see it so high up on the list that it's 2 inches above the monitor!

12 posted on 12/31/2004 12:29:18 PM PST by Lazamataz ("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
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To: Lazamataz

Darn those vicious 3-legged dogs...


13 posted on 12/31/2004 12:29:19 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: alessandrofiaschi
"The prime minister is saddened, deeply saddened"

I would be pissed, deeply pissed!
14 posted on 12/31/2004 12:29:40 PM PST by GunnyHartman (Allah is allah outta virgins.)
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To: alessandrofiaschi
My dear friends, it's not simple living in Italy for a conservative.

I bet!

we, the right, are living in a climate of hatred. I'm very sad.

Don't be sad. Evil always hates good.

15 posted on 12/31/2004 12:30:11 PM PST by Lazamataz ("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
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To: alessandrofiaschi

Most politician could use a good hit up side the head to knock some sense into them.


16 posted on 12/31/2004 12:30:24 PM PST by handy old one
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To: Lazamataz

Because he was only bruised?


17 posted on 12/31/2004 12:30:50 PM PST by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: alessandrofiaschi
Berlusconi's spokesman Paolo Bonaiuti said: "The prime minister is saddened, deeply saddened."

HEY!! That's Dashole's line!

18 posted on 12/31/2004 12:30:59 PM PST by Petruchio (<===Looks Sexy in a flightsuit . . . Looks Silly in a french maid outfit)
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To: alessandrofiaschi
Berlusconi's spokesman Paolo Bonaiuti said: "The prime minister is saddened, deeply saddened."

Perrsonally I'd be "pis*ed, really pis*ed"

19 posted on 12/31/2004 12:31:06 PM PST by JoeV1 (The Democrats-The unlawful and corrupt leading the uneducated and blind)
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To: alessandrofiaschi

I hate to think what would happen if Pres. Bush took a walk in downtown DC. The left is so full of hatred that nothing they do would surprise me, and they've communicated this hatred to a large number of otherwise fairly average, apolitical people. Guess it's the same in Italy, alas.


20 posted on 12/31/2004 12:31:22 PM PST by livius
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