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| Minister: Kidnapped Italian Aid Worker OK | |
| 2005-05-18 | |
| Italy's foreign minister said Tuesday that an Italian aid worker taken hostage in Afghanistan is all right, as he tried to reassure an anguished nation over its latest abduction drama. "We know that she is well because the kidnappers have initiated a channel of contacts with the Afghan authorities," Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini told reporters about efforts to win the freedom of CARE International worker Clementina Cantoni, who was abducted in Kabul on Monday. When reporters asked Fini if the kidnappers had asked for ransom in exchange for the woman's release, he replied: "It's a question on which utmost reserve, discretion and prudence are obligatory to reach the objective."
Earlier, a top aide to Fini, Ministry Undersecretary Margherita Boniver, told Sky TG24 that "the most accredited hypothesis about the kidnappers is that of common criminals." | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 We need to think twice about Italy. Berlusconi has been a good ally, but few other Italians are behind us. We should question whether we want to comit Ameican blood to defend nations whose defence policies are so "sophisticated." |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-05-18 20:32 |
| #1 It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:â âThough we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you. We will therefore pay you cash to go away.â And that is called paying the Dane-geld; But weâve proved it again and again, That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-05-18 19:50 |