Reply #131: Italian press shocked by shooting [View All]

[strizi64]

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"Giuliana Sgrena is free - her liberator is murdered," reads the simple, uncompromising headline in Il Manifesto, the Rome daily for which Ms Sgrena works.

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In Turin's La Stampa, Lucia Annunziata also senses the episode may place considerable strain on the "carefully woven" relationship between Italy and the US.

"If Washington has any skilled diplomats between Rome and Iraq," she says, "it would be well advised to activate them at once."

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A first draft of Il Manifesto featured a cartoon of a man hugging a dove with an olive twig in its beak, accompanied by the caption "You've brought her back to us."

But the cartoon was redrawn for later editions, with the dove shown dragging itself along the floor in a pool of blood.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4321147.stm

The whole story is like a bad joke on a bad day, just crazy and disgusting. Random shooting at cars, don't want to know how many already died in such actions before :grr:. I really hope that she recovers soon...