Kidnapping has been revived as the weapon of choice for those in the Middle East who want to poke sticks at the tiger.
But Italy is standing firm. The kidnappers killed one of their Italian hostages, but he didn’t go quietly:
“This boy, as the assassins were pointing the gun at him, tried to take off his hood and shouted: ‘Now I’ll show you how an Italian dies,'” Frattini said, adding, “He died as a hero.”
If you know you are about to be killed, wouldn’t you do what this young man did? Why would anyone prefer to cry and beg for mercy? There is none in the Middle East.
HERO
This Italian is a hero….
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