Freed Italian hostage says Iraq rebels "justified"

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L01636192.htm

ROME, Oct 1 (Reuters) - An Italian aid worker held hostage last month in Iraq said guerrillas there were right to fight U.S.-led forces and their Iraqi "puppet government".

In comments that were bound to annoy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government, Simona Torretta also called on Rome to withdraw the troops it sent to Iraq to support its U.S. ally.

"I said it before the kidnapping and I repeat it today," she told Corriere della Sera newspaper in an interview published on Friday.

"You have to distinguish between terrorism and resistance. The guerrilla war is justified, but I am against the kidnapping of civilians."

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[shaolinmonkey]

1. Wow...that's an amazing statement...

think you'll hear that on the Today show....ummmmm no.

[24HRrnr]

3. It is an amazing statement!!

Wonder if she thinks the murder of 35 children yesterday is justified by the "guerillas"?

[UpInArms]

4. dunno - how about

the justification for this?

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0524-02.htm

Video Contradicts US Military, Shows Iraq Wedding Celebration

The videotape obtained Sunday by Associated Press Television News captures a wedding party that survivors say was later attacked by U.S. planes early Wednesday, killing up to 45 people. The dead included the cameraman, Yasser Shawkat Abdullah, hired to record the festivities, which ended Tuesday night before the planes struck.

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So what was your point?

[NNN0LHI]

5. How common were car bombs in Iraq before the US invaded that country?

I don't recall hearing about too many. Do you?

Don

[Larkspur]

6. Allawi bombed a schoolbus loaded with children

when he was a CIA backed terrorist. But car bombings weren't frequent until the USA took over.

[leftchick]

2. Holy Smokes! That is an amazing statement!

What a very brave soul she is!

[jumpstart33]

7. I bet the US media won't go near this story.

They can not deal with reality.

[UpInArms]

8. reality is discounted for the much better

option of steadfast blindness. /sarcasm