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Jun. 27, 2004 21:23 Report: Iraqis killed Italian for Israel ties By ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON An Iraqi terrorist who says he participated in the April murder of an Italian hostage has recalled how the captive asked for his blindfold to be removed so he could look his killers in the eye, a British newspaper reported Sunday. "I filmed him as he was executed," the Arab fighter, who called himself Abu Yussuf was quoted as telling Sunday Times reporter Hala Jaber in an undisclosed location to the west of Baghdad. Fabrizio Quattrocchi, along with three other Italian security guards, was captured...

In a clandestine and dangerous meeting near Baghdad Hala Jaber was told the chilling story of a hostage’s death by one of the terror gang IN A small, bare house to the west of Baghdad, a highly educated Arab fighter armed with an unusual combination of computer skills and European languages was packing spoils of war into cardboard boxes last week as his resistance cell prepared to take its battle into the Iraqi capital. He removed aerial photographs from the walls, saying he had obtained them by hacking into a US military database in Iraq, and stacked laptops that had...