Italian Hostage crises.

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Wednesday September 08, 2004 00:38

by iosaf

members of a pacifist NGO founded in Italy in 1991.

They called themselves "ponte per Iraq" whilst working in Bagdhad, where their activity focussed on water purification, sanitary and hygiene operations in support of the Islamic Red Crescent equivalent of the Swiss Red Cross.

Simona. she looks like a pacifist, she's been photo-ed with the rainbow flag and she is not self employed or working for a right wing newspaper.

Little over a week ago, I reportd the hostage taking of two journalists, (one self employed) and the other a worker for the right wing daily Le Figaro, both citizens of France, who with their Syrian chauffeur were on their way to the besieged Islamic town of Najaf, the scene of prolonged conflict between Islamic fundamentalists with considerable international interest and the current enterim regime of Iraq with assistance from the U.S. forces stationed in Iraq for over a year since acting on unreliable intelligence deposed the undoubted tyranny of Saddam and brought it up to date with the sort of ridiculous and contrived packaged global horror that we are all now used to, and I sugested in the author field of that article that someday Al Jazeera would face the key maker, might I remind you that in the meantime there have been in excess of 600 arrests in the southern suburbs of Baghdad which btw are the "road to Najaf", Al Jazeera Iraq no longer exists and all his material has been seized by the interim government as well as its employees, and this has led to the appearance of a new "islamic fundamentalist friendly(?)" TV channel and website. The same which maintains the "imminently to be released" French journalists kidnappers are asking for millions of "dollars" from the French Government.

The Italian story thus, you will be interested to learn, was broken from the Qatar offices of Al Jazeera.

(is that muddy enough?)

If I were one of the "indymedia journalists" reporting on a union, I would use more punctuation.
"I am not one of those however and paratactic prose will do for me".
Adorno.