March 11, 2005
BLESSED BACKLASH:
Italian minister rebukes hostage shot by US troops (Phil Stewart, March 11, 2005, Reuters)
Italy's justice minister urged former hostage Giuliana Sgrena on Friday to stop making "careless" accusations after being shot by U.S. forces in Baghdad, saying she had already caused enough grief. [...]Many Italians have been irked by her descriptions of her kidnappers. She said they were not killers and that she may have over-dramatised her videotaped appeal from captivity for Italy to withdraw its 3,000 troops from Iraq. [...]
She also complained of being treated unfairly.
"I feel like I'm being accused for being kidnapped and then saved..."
The term is "bought." Posted by Orrin Judd at March 11, 2005 7:14 PM
Well, we're not quite ready to make accusations yet...
Posted by: David Cohen at March 11, 2005 7:32 PMWhat one has to believe to believe her story is not believable.
Posted by: ghostcat at March 11, 2005 8:01 PMShe's not even being a good little Communist.
Posted by: ratbert at March 11, 2005 8:32 PMThey really should have let her remain with the side she's on.
Posted by: Jed Roberts at March 11, 2005 10:18 PMthis little hommie has a really "interesting" visage; i am looking forward to the release (on the net) of the "other" tapes her captors made.
Posted by: cjm at March 12, 2005 9:29 AMHer Soviet funded newspaper should be our property as spoils of the Cold War.
Posted by: Ripper at March 12, 2005 9:33 AM