Italian hostages released

[arildno]

Amidst all the murder and mayhem going on in Iraq due to terrorists, I guess I feel some relief that these poor women came out of their nightmare alive:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/24/iraq/main541815.shtml

[Clausius2]

And do you think the italian goverment acted rightly paying $$1million for releasing them?.

[arildno]

Hmm..if they did, it would certainly be problematic.

[Clausius2]

It is said in Italy by journalists that Berlusconi did so.

And now Tony Blair is trying to deal with the kidnappers of the english hostage. But I think he will to offer more $$ for him, because the price of a human being is going up now.

[graphic7]

I thought Italy denied paying a ransom?

[russ_watters]

Every time you buy a person's life, the price of the next one goes up.

[Tsu]

Your link takes me to CBS news for today - so I couldn't see the story. But if the women in my article are the same women as in yours, they had a few things to say about their captors and the Iraq situation. The original article is from the NY Times, but you need a subscription for it, so here (http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/100304C.shtml) is a link to another site that carries the article. Sort of interesting... :wink: