Posted on 09/15/2006 5:31:16 AM PDT by kabar
ROME -- Veteran journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci, a former war correspondent best known for her abrasive interviews and provocative stances, has died, Italian news reports said Friday. She was 76.
Fallaci, who had been diagnosed with cancer years ago, died in a Florence hospital, the Italian agencies ANSA and Apcom said. The reports said that she had been hospitalized for days.
Fallaci, a former Resistance fighter and war corespondent who was hardly seen in public, had lived in New York for years.
Her recent publications _ including the best-selling book "The Rage and The Pride," which came out weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 _ drew accusations of inciting hatred against Muslims.
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We knew it was coming but it hurts just the same. A heart-felt "thank you" for a brave woman. BTT.
Her own beloved Italy has become her enemy number2 where she was not allowed to return without being captured at the airports for undergoing trials in the justice houses of cities of her OWN Italy by our Italian stupid leftist judges, because guilty of saying the truth about islam. Her scream aimed to wake up the languid torpor of a too sleepy Europe, that she calls Eurabia, busy only with the ridiculous slogan "politically correct", She used all her force to shake the conscience of us (stupid) Italians. Now here in Italy we also have to stand the hypocrital mourn show of myopic journalists and puppet-politicians who have been crucifying her until her last days. She defended the West and the truth. She had no time for lies.
I personally shiver for her death. A western light has gone. Addio Oriana. Grazie sempre.
Now you'll see all the big name cowards write glowingly about her...now that she's dead....but wouldn't come to her aid when she was alive. Just wait. RIP, Ms. Fallaci.
GRAZIE, GRAZIE GRAZIE for having spoken to us. We won't forget.
Prayers for her...She will be missed.
Yes Hildy, the coward actors have already started their show, they are already uttering their hypocricism. How painful it is here in her beloved-hated Italy.
Btw, have you noticed? September 12th she dies, September 12th the Pope holds his speach in the Regensbourg University about islam violence... Don't forget that this Pope Benedict was the ONLY authority who received Oriana last year. No one else has wanted her! They all rejected her as the "peste" (in italian, i cannot translate it). I shiver i shiver.
May God rest her soul.
I was privileged to hear her speak in NYC in November 2005. A person of uncompromising spirit, moral vision, and intellect. Powerful even in extreme illness.
National treasure, lost.
Well spoken. BTTT
I hear you, my friend.
Rest in eternal peace, my Italian sister.
Your written works shall endure for all time.
To those of you who want to read the real profile of Oriana, please go to http://www.ilfoglio.it/articolo.php?idoggetto=29835. The wonderful article is written in Italian. Pity it is not in English which is unversal ... Today film director Franco Zeffirelli asstisting the small private funerary ceremony says "We shall bury her as she wanted. Without glamour, withour honour. And all around there will be Florence that did nothing to celebrate her. I shame myself for Florence, for how my city treated Oriana. This city inhabitated by cowards.."
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