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| Abducted Italian women may be in Fallujah | |
| 2004-09-17 | |
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.
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| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #4 Using cities as bargaining chips used to be one of our tactics. Perhaps we need to bring it back. "I'll trade you six months of Techran's continued existance for all of our Hostages? No? I'll throw in Ryadh, too." |
| Posted by: Brutus 2004-09-17 11:59:52 PM |
| #3 Using foreigners as human shields is traditional with a certain segment of Iraqi society, after all. Of course, it didn't work then... (Insanity being defined as repeating an action, and expecting a different result.) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-09-17 5:46:24 PM |
| #2 We hope and pray that the hostages will be safe and recovered. Fallujah needs to be sealed off. Women and children can exit. However, we cannot let the terrorists use hostages as a bargaining chip. We will not win this WoT if we let hotbeds like Fallujah stand. It's a power thing. And the terrorists respect power. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-09-17 4:05:04 PM |
| #1 This indicates how desparate it is getting for terrorist/insurgents.Bush needs to let Marines and Iraqi forces continue with the operation and get grunts on the streets.The election will take care of itself. |
| Posted by: crazyhorse 2004-09-17 3:09:04 PM |