Italian hostage killed - Aljazeera TV

Italian hostage killed - Aljazeera TV


Thursday 15 April 2004, 0:02 Makka Time, 21:02 GMT


A videotape showing the Italian hostages



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A group calling itself the Green Brigade says it has killed one of the four Italians hostages it had captured.


The group said in a statement sent to Aljazeera along with a video tape on Wednesday that it had killed the hostage because the Italian president Silvio Berlusconi said pulling his troops out of Iraq was "not in question."

Aljazeera said it will not air the tape showing the killing of the hostage "in order not to upset viewers sensitivities".

"When your president says pulling the troops out of Iraq is non-negotiable then this means he does not care for the safety of his citizens as much as he is concerned with satisfying his masters in the White House," said the group in a statement sent to Aljazeera.

"We have killed one of the four hostages we have in order to teach a lesson for those who are involved. We know they are guards working for the American occupation in our country.

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