Anti-American socialist Italian prime minister Romano Prodi is out, after less than two years in office. Didn’t take the Italians long to tire of him: Prodi’s Resignation May Herald Berlusconi’s Return.
I did a double-take when I read this story. Left-wing Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said what? Muslims should not ‘hide’ behind veil. ROME, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Romano Prodi said on Tuesday that Muslim immigrant women should not be completely “hidden” behind full veils if they want to ...
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Italian prosecutors are trying to charge a US soldier with murder, in the Giuliana Sgrena (lgf: search) checkpoint incident: American GI’s indictment sought in Italy. (Hat tip: Ward Cleaver.) ROME - Prosecutors have requested the indictment of a U.S. soldier over the shooting of an Italian intelligence agent at a checkpoint ...
Al-Qaeda-linked radical Egyptian cleric Abu Omar, currently in prison in Cairo, is trying to return to Italy and sue former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi for helping the CIA kidnap him. (Hat tip: Fjordman.) Cairo, 16 June (AKI) - Abu Omar, an Egyptian cleric reportedly kidnapped by CIA agents in Milan ...
Here’s a bad translation of a report in Italy’s Corriere Della Sera, about the election of four neo-Nazis to a local Italian legislature. (Hat tip: Pickle.) Hour, after the ballot, reassumes them Francisco Saverio Garofani, of the Daisy, that it expresses “great worry”. The fact that a party of nazi inspiration ...
Gateway Pundit has lots of links on the breaking story that Italian communists may have helped Iranian terrorists to kill Italian soldiers in Iraq. UPDATE at 5/4/06 10:20:44 pm: More at Publius Pundit.
Enzo at hiddentruths has photographs from the anarcho-communist demonstration in Milan, April 25, 2006: hiddentruths: Le Due Italie Del 25 Aprile.
The Jerusalem Post has a very sketchy AP report on anti-Israel demonstrations in Milan, Italy, at a march commemorating Italy’s liberation from fascism. (Hat tip: Bloodthirsty Liberal.) The Vatican newspaper on Wednesday called the trampling and burning of Israeli flags during a march in Milan a “disgusting” offense to all Jews. The ...
The first European country leader to talk to the Hamas terrorist regime: newly elected left wing Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi. (Hat tip: Avner.) GAZA, April 19 (Xinhua) — Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya Wednesday held phone talks with former leader of the European Union Romano Prodi, who won the Italian ...