Former hostage returns to Italy from Iraq
Freed hostage Giuliana Sgrena returned to Italy from Iraq on today hours after US troops fired on the car she was in, wounding her and killing an Italian intelligence officer who apparently tried to protect her.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was among the dignitaries at Rome’s Ciampino Airport to welcome the journalist after her weeks in the hands of her captors and the final ordeal of the checkpoint shooting en route to Baghdad’s airport.
