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| Freed Italian backs Iraqi resistance |
| 2004-10-01 |
| Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! An Italian aid worker in Iraq held captive and subsequently freed has said guerrillas there were right to fight US-led forces and their Iraqi "puppet government". In comments that were bound to annoy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government, Simona Torretta also called on Rome to withdraw the troops it sent to Iraq to support its US ally. Anybody still wondering about that "kidnapping"? "I said it before the kidnapping and I repeat it today," she told Corriere della Sera newspaper in an interview published on Friday. "You have to distinguish between terrorism and resistance. The guerrilla war is justified, but I am against the kidnapping of civilians." How about blowing up 50 or 60 kids? Is that Guerrilla War? Terrorism? Murder? Freedom fighting? Torretta and her Italian colleague Simona Pari, both of them 29, were freed on Tuesday, three weeks after being snatched from their Baghdad office. Snatched you say? Berlusconi has brushed aside widespread reports that his government paid a ransom of up to $1 million. Bet you'd like that money back, huh, Silvio? Describing the administration of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi as "a puppet government in the hands of the Americans", Torretta said elections planned for January would have no legitimacy: "During my days in detention, I came to the conclusion it will take decades Torretta, who lived in Iraq before, during and after the US-led invasion, said she wanted to return despite her ordeal - but would not do so as long as US troops were there: "I've got to wait until the end of the US occupation," she said. She said she did not know whether Italy bought her freedom from the captors: "If a ransom was paid then I am very sorry. But I know nothing about it." Wink- wink.... "I believe that (the captors) were a very political, religious group and that in the end they were convinced that we were not Wonder what the split was? 50-50? 60-40? |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #37 all of you bastard ranters fags and jus, talk talk talk talk talkers get the hell out of your masturbation chairs and fight with your texan moron shitkicker in chief, go to bagadad ... ps bring your doughters |
| Posted by: f*_^_ you 2004-10-01 7:11:21 PM |
| #36 so american ranters are so dumm idiot that do not like ear the truth, poor bastard that convince me to use your sistem make money,tanks becouse your mass of ineducated morons and go back home |
| Posted by: f*_^_ you 2004-10-01 7:15:53 PM |
| #35 Hey bastard scum Fred. Why you are deleting my comments on the basis that are abusive but you are allowing trash thought continuously been posted. you fag coksucker your pity site is just an ensemble for racist jus and Indus cow suckers I will report you . |
| Posted by: indu ju killer 2004-10-02 7:15:36 AM |
| #34 How we doing on those fries, Dickbreath? No no no! You don't put them in the deep fryer one at a time, you idiot! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-10-02 9:33:51 AM |
| #33 How's the Marker Cookie working IJK? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-10-02 7:48:06 AM |
| #32 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted] |
| Posted by: indu ju killer TROLL 2004-10-02 7:15:36 AM |
| #31 How long before one or both of these putanae convert to the pedophile's death cult, like that silly twat Yvonne Ridley? |
| Posted by: Kirk 2004-10-01 10:36:39 PM |
| #30 I'd hint that they were spies for the Italians, let their Islamofriends think they're snitching instead of snatching. Bet they would have a different view this time, like with real blindfolds and restraints |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-01 10:28:54 PM |
| #29 So are you in the pre law or the pre med programs? Political Science major at La Sorbonne? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2004-10-01 10:14:54 PM |
| #28 I never thought the day would come when I would say this: Where in the hell is .com and Zhang Fei when I need them? Barking moonbat clean up on aisles #20 & 21. This moron is going to make me trade my Christianity for insanity. |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2004-10-01 9:29:18 PM |
| #27 so american ranters are so dumm idiot that do not like ear the truth, poor bastard that convince me to use your sistem make money,tanks becouse your mass of ineducated morons and go back home Even us ineducated morons realize that spell checker is a wonderful thing. So are you in the pre law or the pre med programs? And, yes, I will have fries with that. Supersize it if you can figure out how, okay, Dickbreath? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-10-01 8:44:22 PM |
| #26 Seems like the cowards are always calling on others to do their fighting. The coward above certainly did. A not for you: You'd best learn to behave because one of these days your betters (the guys and girls who have the integrity to volunteer and put thier lives on the line for the nation and freedom) are going to get tired of defending the likes of you. And if that day ever comes, you will be one of the first ones the Islamists put up against the wall. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-10-01 8:01:37 PM |
| #25 5 teaspoons of Drano should take care of this. |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2004-10-01 7:41:42 PM |
| #24 PriBitch again? Darn, why can't these el cubos at least spell right. Not asking for a coherency, that would be beyond the scope of their abilities. The edumacational system is really f00ked, I'll tell ya. Cleanup on aisles # 20, 21! |
| Posted by: Memesis 2004-10-01 7:28:58 PM |
| #23 clean up isles 20 and 21. He loves John Feltcher Kerry too. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-10-01 7:24:52 PM |
| #22 Someone forgot their medication. Here, suck on this grenade instead. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2004-10-01 7:20:10 PM |
| #21 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted] |
| Posted by: f*_^_ you TROLL 2004-10-01 7:15:53 PM |
| #20 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted] |
| Posted by: f*_^_ you TROLL 2004-10-01 7:11:21 PM |
| #19 I bet these 'Bitches of Eastwick' support the beheading of civilians. Civilians that are there to do such horrible things as build schools, electricity plants, and repair bridges. I bet they were on a date and were not kidnapped. As a custom (for islamofacists) they asks for a bounty after they have tapped the booty. Ten bucks says one or both have a love child soon. P.S. Shades of St Pancake here! |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-10-01 5:48:46 PM |
| #18 ...three weeks after being snatched from their Baghdad office. Yeah, I'm sure they were "snatched". More than once I bet. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2004-10-01 5:15:32 PM |
| #17 Poster girls for EUrabia's growing red-Green Alliance. EUrabians, unite. You have nothing to lose but your humanity. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-10-01 5:15:02 PM |
| #16 In Islamic head coverings as well. These two should be real proud of themselves. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-01 5:12:52 PM |
| #15 Man, f*** those ungrateful spaghetti eating bitches. I want to see them in a Zarqawi home video. |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2004-10-01 4:53:39 PM |
| #14 hallucogenic views I will defend to the death your right to pretend Berlusconi's an honest man, but I resemble your imprecation that my views are hallucogenic. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-10-01 4:46:17 PM |
| #13 lex: aw, Zhang, still smarting over my diss of W's performance? Doesn't bother me none - from hallucogenic views about alliances with Russia and India to fixations on stupid aspects of Bush's demeanor to unsupported slurs on Berlusconi - lex is pretty consistent. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-10-01 4:38:01 PM |
| #12 Hmmmm, so they didn't make the beheading video. Did they make it into the porno one that follows it? "Iraqi Poles in Italian Holes" the new best seller in Bagdhad. |
| Posted by: remote man 2004-10-01 4:27:17 PM |
| #11 Looks to me as it was staged, and the million dollar story was aired in an attempt to make it sound like it wasn't. This is like campaign financing. Terrorists run out of money, so they take a couple of collaborators and wait to get more financing through secret curriers in which everyone can deny afterwards. Italy is directly supporting terrorist groups. Heck they even got candy and copies of the Koran. Hey wait a minute..didnt I just see those girls in Burquas last month at the city square? 5 bucks says that more news on these " |
| Posted by: Johnnie Bartlette 2004-10-01 4:26:26 PM |
| #10 aw, Zhang, still smarting over my diss of W's performance? I agree with you. The ragazzi are propaganda whores for the jihadists. The ransom deal stinks. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-10-01 4:23:50 PM |
| #9 Cammotrolls out in force. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-10-01 4:21:33 PM |
| #8 lex: With a kickback to Berlusconi's slush fund, probably to their mamas as well-- Lugano numbered account #798701535189. Sure - I bet Cheney and Bush also got a kickback as well. For all we know, the Mossad actually carried out the kidnapping. The CIA must also be involved somehow - we must ask ourselves - who benefits? |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-10-01 4:16:31 PM |
| #7 Agreed. With a kickback to Berlusconi's slush fund, probably to their mamas as well-- Lugano numbered account #798701535189. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-10-01 4:05:22 PM |
| #6 ME: One has to wonder if this was not a set up job? From the moment they said they want to go back to Iraq, I suspected this was a fund-raiser for the terrorists. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-10-01 4:00:55 PM |
| #5 Ship her to Napoli. Let her visit with 'Guido'. Maybe he'll extend to her the Iraqi 'hospitality' extended to the two beheaded American captives this past week. What a skanky b*tch. Is retardation in the water in Europe nowadays? Is the measurement of intelligence there a precise formula of saying whatever is most contrary to evidence? It seems so. |
| Posted by: jules 187 2004-10-01 3:59:32 PM |
| #4 One has to wonder if this was not a set up job? |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-01 3:54:45 PM |
| #3 I thought I read that these two idiotarianini had been in Iraq since 1993. In other words, they were Saddam's willing tools. Can anyone confirm? |
| Posted by: lex 2004-10-01 3:44:45 PM |
| #2 These two women are misguided idiots. |
| Posted by: John 2004-10-01 3:40:22 PM |
| #1 Those two French dildos are next. "We are free, but zee Amereecains are evil" |
| Posted by: Crikey 2004-10-01 3:33:56 PM |