per Al Jazeera le Simona sono vive



l'associazione musulmana AMS dice che non c'e' ragione per pensare al peggio e che sarebbero nelle mani di gruppi che non hanno nessun rapporto con la "resistenza" irachena
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Italian hostages probably alive
Thursday 23 September 2004, 14:42 Makka Time, 11:42 GMT
Muslim association says no reason to believe the worst

Contrary to reports on the Internet, two Italian aid workers taken hostage in Iraq are probably still alive. A spokesman for the influential Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) said on Thursday that Simona Pari and Simona Torretta were being held by a group that has no relation to the resistance. Speaking to journalists at the committee's headquarters in Baghdad's Umm al-Qura mosque, spokesman Muthana al-Dhari explained why he did not think the two women were dead "because the material gain from holding them is big".

"I have my doubts about the whole operation from the start because the style and method all indicate that the kidnappers are an organised gang with no connection to the resistance."