Giuliana Sgrena
Giuliana Sgrena
Giuliana Sgrenais an Italian journalist who works for the Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto and the German weekly Die Zeit. While working in Iraq, she was kidnapped by insurgents on February 4, 2005. After her release on March 4, 2005, Sgrena and the two Italian intelligence officers who had helped secure her release came under fire from U.S. forces while on their way to Baghdad International Airport. Nicola Calipari, a Major General in the Italian military intelligence service was killed,...
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kept on talking and talking, you couldn't contain him, an avalanche of friendly phrases and jokes. I finally felt an almost physical consolation, warmth that I had forgotten for some time.
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These people don't want foreigners here, nobody should come to Iraq at this time. Not even journalists. Nobody.
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It wasn't a checkpoint but a patrol which immediately opened fire after they trained their light on us.
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How a kidnapping ends depends to a large degree on who the kidnappers are.
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One thing is clear: My life is completely different than it was before the kidnapping.