[BunnySlippers]

OK, selfless saints. But they were pro-palestine from all the press reports I read. That doesn't make them bad ... and NO ONE deserves to die in Iraq. But they were not on the American side.

[Pearls Before Swine]

OK, selfless saints. But they were pro-palestine from all the press reports I read.

All right, then--selfless but deluded. Their deaths were still hideous and unwarranted.

An added disgusting tidbit: I think I heard that Zarqarwi's group "bought" them from their original kidnappers. Don't know if that's the case.

[kcvl]

Pari and Torretta were working for the Italian charity Un Ponte Per Baghdad (Bridge to Baghdad) which has been a long-standing opponent of Western policy towards Iraq.

The group campaigned vigorously against the crippling UN sanctions enforced against Iraq from its 1990 invasion of Kuwait right up to last year.

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“The heads of the two criminal agents of Italian intelligence, Simona Pari and Simona Torretta have been chopped off by knife without pity or mercy.”

[Kornev]

If they really took the islamic side on that, I can't really pity them when they get their heads chopped off.

Sadly, it's probably a wakeup call that anyone who is pro-islam needs to get.