Anony

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...5CF869D625.htm


An Italian aid worker in Iraq held captive and subsequently freed has said guerrillas there were right to fight US-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 US 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."

Torretta and her Italian colleague Simona Pari, both of them 29, were freed on Tuesday, three weeks after being snatched from their Baghdad office.

Puppet

Berlusconi has brushed aside widespread reports that his government paid a ransom of up to $1 million.

Describing the administration of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi as "a puppet government in the hands of the Americans", Torretta said elections planned for January would have no legitimacy: "During my days in detention ... I came to the
conclusion it will take decades to put Iraq back on its feet."

Torretta, who lived in Iraq before, during and after the US-led invasion, said she wanted to return despite her ordeal - but would not do so as long as US troops were there: "I've got to wait until the end of the US occupation," she said.

She said she did not know whether Italy bought her freedom from the captors: "If a ransom was paid then I am very sorry. But I know nothing about it ... I believe that (the captors) were a very political, religious group and that in the end they were convinced that we were not enemies."

hammer

stockholm syndrome?!!

Ray

Hammer,

You beat me to the post.

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eMGee

The girls look like semites (Arabs), I wonder how the hostage takers ever distinguished them as non-Iraqi's.

Anony

Well I don't mean to contradict you, but I know what arab girls look like and they definitely don't look like that. hostage takers may be asses but they are smart enough to realise their arabic accent and the place where they were working at.

Anony

Don't forget EU and Russia syndrome

eMGee

Ah yes, I forgot. Arabs have a lot of negroid admixture.

Ray

BBC and CNN is stating that they are practically supporting the terrorists!

Of course they want to return to Iraq and they have said they are not converting to Islam, but what they have said is indeed an eyeopener.

Islam can be persuasive.

Maybe there is something great about Islam that I missed out.

Ray

I don't know.

What is that?

Ironduke

I've heard rumors that you are a regular poster on the stormfront.org forum. Batavier, in fact. Is this true?

Anony

Resistance is not terrorism.

Confed999

Makes me think they were in on it in the first place.

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Confed999

People who take civilians hostage and hold them for ransom, are at best criminals and at worst terrorists. Why would an Iraqi resist before January? The only ones I can think that would have a real motive are fundamentalists, and Baath. Terrorists and tyrants...

eMGee

Nope.

Ironduke

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