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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 12:01 AM
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Freed hostage 'misses Iraq'
Rome - One of the two Italian women hostages freed after being held for three weeks in Iraq said on Wednesday she missed the country and her Iraqi friends and wanted to return soon.

Aid worker Simona Pari was released on Tuesday with her colleague Simona Torretta and two Iraqi colleagues and flown back to a rapturous welcome in Italy.

"I want to send a hello and a big kiss to all the people of Iraq, to all our friends," a smiling Pari told reporters outside her home in Rimini on Italy's northeastern Adriatic coast.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1597033,00.html
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geek tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 12:02 AM
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1. I admire her courage, but
what the F#$#%T ##$#$ is she thinking?
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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 12:19 AM
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7. I'd guess you've never been overseas?
As I stated on the DU during the Repuke/Bush lies to demonize Iraq, my friends who had visited Iraq before the first Gulf War said it was the 'best' Arab country to visit. It was the most open to women's rights, religion, thinking, education...

You can see here: http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/fdtcards/Cards_Index.html Americas hand in murder thousands of times more than Saddam.
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geek tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 12:25 AM
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8. That was before the US invasion.
If she were talking about a time machine and 1988, that would be one thing.

To go back now, however, is just nuts.
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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 01:43 AM
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12. Maybe she has a thousand friends there and she wants to help them
Edited on Thu Sep-30-04 01:46 AM by dArKeR
in their time of need? In my opinion, one has to look at it like their neighborhood and homes are being bombed by the air and suicide bombs by the roads everywhere. A place you lived your entire life. Then you have friends you love who are from another country who are helping you through the bloodbath.

Again, I've never met any bad people while travelling overseas. Only murderous governments and corporations.
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geek tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 01:55 AM
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13. I agree.
But Iraq is just so fooking dangerous for outsiders.

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getoffmytrain Donating Member (575 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 12:03 AM
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2. huh???
Get ahold of yourself, lady!
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 12:08 AM
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3. Helsinky Syndrome
classic

;-)
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Eye and Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 12:11 AM
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5. It's "Stockholm" - and she doesn't miss her captors.
From the cited article:

"I miss the children, the women, all our Iraqi friends and all the Iraqi people a great deal, we know they were close to us at this time," she said.

For some people, humanitarian work will do that.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 12:26 AM
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9. Stand corrected
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Voice_of_Europe Donating Member (262 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 06:44 AM
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14. nah...

She doesn't miss her captors...
She misses the people she worked with and whom she helped.
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 12:08 AM
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4. Must be a cultural thing
The whole deal was weird.
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aaronbees Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 12:18 AM
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6. Their release...
was beautiful news. True heroes ... and I can see exactly why she'd say that. Hope she gets to go back and fight for what she believes in.
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Kagemusha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 12:44 AM
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10. The Japanese hostages said similar things
and were publicly reviled for it...
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Carolab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-30-04 01:24 AM
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11. Actually
they were reviled for going there in the first place--the government said it shamed them because they were asked not to go
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