:: good news from iraq ::
Italian hostages Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, seized in Baghdad three weeks ago, were freed on September 28, 2004 and are safe, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said. The two aid workers, both aged 29, were taken at gun-point from their central Baghdad offices on Sept. 7, in a brazen kidnapping which caused jitters among the thousands of foreigners working in Iraq. The women are shown in photos released Sept. 7. (Reuters)
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