Freed Italian backs Iraqi resistance
Friday 01 October 2004, 15:57 Makka Time, 12:57 GMT
Torretta lived in Iraq before, during and after the US
invasion
An Italian aid worker in Iraq held captive and
subsequently freed has said guerrillas there were
right to fight US-led forces and their Iraqi "puppet
government".
In comments that were bound to annoy Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi's government, Simona Torretta also
called on Rome to withdraw the troops it sent to Iraq
to support its US ally.
"I said it before the kidnapping and I repeat it
today," she told Corriere della Sera newspaper in an
interview published on Friday.
"You have to distinguish between terrorism and
resistance. The guerrilla war is justified, but I am
against the kidnapping of civilians."
Torretta and her Italian colleague Simona Pari, both
of them 29, were freed on Tuesday, three weeks after
being snatched from their Baghdad office.
Puppet
Berlusconi has brushed aside widespread reports that
his government paid a ransom of up to $1 million.
"The guerrilla war is justified, but I am against the
kidnapping of civilians"
Simona Torretta
Describing the administration of Iraqi Prime Minister
Iyad Allawi as "a puppet government in the hands of
the Americans", Torretta said elections planned for
January would have no legitimacy: "During my days in
detention ... I came to the
conclusion it will take decades to put Iraq back on
its feet."
Torretta, who lived in Iraq before, during and after
the US-led invasion, said she wanted to return despite
her ordeal - but would not do so as long as US troops
were there: "I've got to wait until the end of the US
occupation," she said.
She said she did not know whether Italy bought her
freedom from the captors: "If a ransom was paid then I
am very sorry. But I know nothing about it ... I
believe that (the captors) were a very political,
religious group and that in the end they were
convinced that we were not enemies."
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Leo Imanov
Abdu-lLah
AllahsSlave
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