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Roberto Saviano
Hamid Mir, Osama Bin laden’s official biographer is working as Editor Northern Region, GEO Television Network (24 hour private Urdu News Channel)
According to you, why Giuliana Sgrena, a veteran Middle East correspondent for the Italian communist daily
Il Manifesto, has been kidnapped?
âGiuliana Sgrena was kidnapped due to the presence of Italian troops in Iraq. She is paying the price for the Italian government policies. I think that kidnappers are Sunni insurgents then they are convinced that she is not a spy and she is against the war. Italian government have done nothing serious for the release of Giuliana. She was kidnapped because she was working differently from the other western journalists. The correspondents of big American and British newspapers are doing “hotel journalismâ in Iraq while this brave Italian journalist was following stories in the streets on her legs and her unusual way of reporting was the main cause of her kidnapping. There is no doubt that many American and British spies are using press cards in Baghdad. This policy is a threat for all the journalistsâ.