ROME (Reuters) - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi suffered a crushing defeat at Italian regional elections, official results showed on Monday, a huge boost for center-left leader Romano Prodi’s hopes of unseating him next year.
In what one of his defeated regional governors described as a "massacre," Berlusconi’s center-right coalition appeared to have lost 11 of the 13 regions at stake, holding on to just two — Lombardy and Veneto — both in its stronghold in the north.
Prodi, who had (...)
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Berlusconi ’Massacred’ in Regional Elections
5 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Giuliana Sgrena was shot in the Green Zone, by a tank as they drove away from it!
25 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
10 commentsThree weeks after being shot by US forces in Iraq, veteran Italian war correspondent Giuliana Sgrena is released from a military hospital. New details are emerging about the killing of the Italian agent who saved her life. We speak with independent journalist Naomi Klein, who just returned from meeting with Sgrena in Rome. In Rome, journalist Giuliana Sgrena has been released from a military hospital where she was being treated for a gunshot wound she suffered when US forces shot up the (...)
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Hiding Our War Dead. Italy Publicly Honors Its War Dead, America Hides Its Dead
23 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
57 commentsIs That Respecting Our Soldiers?
by Gail Vida Hamburg The state funeral in Rome last month for Nicola Calipari - the Italian intelligence officer who rescued a kidnapped journalist from Iraqi captors, only to be gunned down by jittery American soldiers at a checkpoint in Baghdad - was a national event that united all Italians, merging their raw sorrow with the singular grief of his widow and children. It was the second time Italy pulled out all the stops for its Iraq War dead. In (...) -
Italy’s Centre-Left Up By Two Per Cent
22 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsThe Unione (Union) of centre-left opposition parties is leading in the early stages of Italy’s electoral race, according to a poll by Istituto Piepoli published in La Stampa. 48 per cent of respondents would vote for the alliance.
Former president of the European Commission Romano Prodi is expected to lead Unione-which includes the Olive Tree United List (Ulivo) and the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC)-into the next parliamentary election, tentatively scheduled for May 2006.
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Italy to pull troops out of Iraq! Coalition Crumbling
16 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsBy Richard Owen and Michael Evans
BOWING to popular pressure, the Italian Government said last night that it would start pulling its more than 3,000 troops out of Iraq in September.
The surprise announcement by Silvio Berlusconi, the Prime Minister, came less than two weeks after US troops shot dead Nicola Calipari, Italy’s top intelligence officer in Iraq, as he escorted a freed Italian hostage to safety.
Italy has 3,200 troops and Carabinieri paramilitary police in al-Nasiriyah, a (...) -
Bush Continues To Alienate World
15 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsBush Continues To Alienate World Bill Gallagher March 15, 2005 DETROIT - President George W. Bush has created an atmosphere of unparalleled distrust toward the United States as people from places around the globe now shudder when he makes increasingly frequent declarations about his "vision" for the world. From avowed enemies to longtime allies and even our closest neighbors, open hostility toward the United States is epidemic.
People who once looked toward America with admiration and (...) -
Hazardous assignment
14 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
By H.D.S. Greenway
ON ONE thing the Italian government and the White House agree. The killing of intelligence officer Nicola Calipari and the wounding of journalist Giuliana Sgrena by American soliders was a ’’horrific accident." But beyond that there is little agreement as to what happened.
The Americans say the car the Italians were traveling in was going 60 miles an hour. The Italians say it was going 25. The Americans say they gave hand signals, flashed lights, and fired warning (...) -
The Passion of Giuliana Sgrena
9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
by Danny Schechter
NEW YORK - Italian Journalist Giuliana Sgrena became an icon in Iraq, a role model of a caring journalist of conscience kidnapped by parties unknown. Her plight mobilized the people of Italy with virtually the whole county demanding her release.
In response, Italy dispatched an intelligence agent to find her and negotiate her release. Miraculously, he did, but as fate would have it, was killed by US soldier suspicious of his car, which raced through, they say, a (...) -
Giuliana Sgrena : my Truth
8 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsby Giuliana Sgrena I’m still in the dark. Friday was the most dramatic day of my life. I had been in captivity for many days. I had just spoken with my captors. It had been days they were telling me I would be released. I was living in waiting for this moment. They were speaking about things that only later I would have understood the importance of. They were speaking about problems "related to transfers."
I learned to understand what was going on by the behavior of my two guards, the (...) -
US attack against Italians in Baghdad was deliberate: companion
6 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsThe companion of freed Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena on Saturday leveled serious accusations at US troops who fired at her convoy as it was nearing Baghdad airport, saying the shooting had been deliberate.
"The Americans and Italians knew about (her) car coming," Pier Scolari said on leaving Rome’s Celio military hospital where Sgrena is to undergo surgery following her return home.
"They were 700 meters (yards) from the airport, which means that they had passed all checkpoints." (...)