Freed Italian backs Iraqi resistanceFriday 01 October 2004
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.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/487181C1-5560-4188-88B2-545CF869D625.htm
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