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  • Freed Italian Hostage Says Iraq Rebels ’Justified’
    4 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    ROME (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 Friday.
    "You have (…)

  • Intelligence Matters
    30 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    I am so glad our intelligence was working two months before 9/11? No wonder we didn’t believe the advance warnings, we were too busy working with other governments to keep our president safe from terrorists who might use planes packed with explosives and crash them into buildings in Genoa. Our intelligence didn’t fail, they were just too busy with other "stuff". One does not need to be an investigative reporter, a deep thinker, or sherlock holmes to figure this one out.
    G8 summit death (…)

  • Bush Faces Italian Anger Over Iraq on Rome Visit
    4 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    ROME (Reuters) - Italians greeted American soldiers as liberators when they marched into Rome 60 years ago but President Bush faces deep anger on his visit on Friday over the actions of a new generation of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
    Authorities fear violent demonstrations during Bush’s two days in Rome, and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, worried by the prospect of clashes in the streets, urged Italians to show "maturity and understanding of history."
    While Berlusconi has been among Bush’s (…)

  • Italians may make ’small doses’ of torture legal
    24 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Torture may be acceptable provided it is administered in small doses, says a
    bill under discussion in the Italian parliament that has outraged human
    rights organisations.
    The Chamber of Deputies yesterday passed an amendment, tabled by the
    far-right Northern League, to the bill which opposition MPs denounced as a
    green light to "limited" torture but which government supporters said was
    essential for police.
    The amendment says violence and threats must be used repeatedly to qualify (…)

  • G8 : Open Wounds
    15 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    From an outside perspective, Genoa is still very much linked to the bloody G8 summit from 2001. In the following interview, which was conducted by the publishers of "Genoa etc." [www.etc-publications.com], Enrica Bartesaghi talks about her project to support the victims of the G8 summit in correlation with the city’s transformation into the European Capital of Culture.
    How do you remember the G8-meeting?
    Genoa and the G8 was, and still is, an open wound for me both as a mother and as an (…)