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Abducted Italian women may be in Fallujah
Two young Italian women kidnapped in Iraq last week have been taken by their captors to the flashpoint city of Fallujah, according to an Italian newspaper that quoted non-Italian intelligence services. The Corriere della Sera said aid workers Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, who were taken at gunpoint from their Baghdad offices along with two Iraqi colleagues on September 7, "may have been taken to the Sunni Muslim stronghold of Fallujah, which is inaccessible to coalition forces." "The report, passed on by the intelligence service of a foreign country, is apparently backed up by information picked up in recent days by Italian diplomats," it added Friday. Corriere della Sera also said an Iraqi Kurdish leader, Jalal Talabani, had reported that the two Italian women might be in Fallujah. The report emerged as US forces again mounted deadly air raids against the city.
Posted by: Seafarious 2004-09-17 |
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