PM (Berlusconi) under fire for handling of war casualty

[rooboy]

ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was in hot water yesterday for attending a victory party for his football team while his troops suffered casualties during fierce fighting with Shi'ite militiamen in southern Iraq.

"The dirty war in Iraq killed another Italian soldier, a 23-year-old, while Mr Berlusconi was celebrating the scudetto (the Italian championship title) won by AC Milan," Oliviero Diliberto, national secretary of the Communist Party, said.

Mr Diliberto's comments followed an announcement that an Italian soldier, who was injured in Iraq on Sunday, had died on Monday.

Matteo Vanzan, a corporal, died after being injured in fighting with Shi'ite Muslim militiamen in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, a development that increased pressure on the Berlusconi government to withdraw Italy's 3000-strong contingent.

Vanzan's mother urged the government in a television interview to "bring the others home".

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,9597999%255E954,00.html

[Frances]

1. When are people going to start complaining about

Bush's record breaking fundraising while our men and women are dying?

[David__77]

2. Mr. Diliberto is right.

He should be prime minister, not the fascist sympathizer.