Iraqis show Italian hostages, want Italy out -TV

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L13479132.htm

DUBAI, April 13 (Reuters) - Al Jazeera television showed a tape on Tuesday of four men described as Italian hostages being held by an Iraqi Islamist group which demanded that Italy withdraw its forces from Iraq.

The four men in civilian clothes were shown seated on the ground and holding up their passports, surrounded by gunmen whose faces were covered by traditional Arab headscarves.

"The Italian government...should vow and give guarantees to withdraw its forces from Iraq and give a time schedule and to free Muslim clerics in Iraq," a voice on the film said, adding the men were captured in the Sunni Muslim city of Falluja.

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L13446119.htm

Four Italian security workers missing in Iraq - TV

ROME, April 13 (Reuters) - Four Italians working for a private security firm in Iraq have gone missing and could be the same men whom a group of insurgents claimed last week to have kidnapped, Italian state RAI television said on Tuesday.

On Friday Iraqi insurgents told Reuters they had seized four Italians and two Americans on the western outskirts of Baghdad. Italy said later that day however that no Italians registered as being in Iraq were missing.

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[Flagg]

1. getting better by the day ,he ?

[0007]

2. More mercenaries?

[daleo]

4. I heard them described as possible intelligence agents

I can't recall if it was CNN or CBC Newsworld. Probably the latter.

[David__77]

3. Hopefully Berlusconi will meet defeat.

The abetters of occupation should be swept away throughout Europe and in Japan and S. Korea too.

[Endangered Specie]

5. Why Italians? we dont fight much to begin with, much less in 120F heat.