Italy's 'Two Simonas' Freed, Jubilation at Home

[miss_kitty]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6357087

ROME (Reuters) - The release of two Italian women aid workers in Iraq was greeted with joy and relief on Tuesday following three weeks of anguish in Italy over their abduction.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced the news to cheers in parliament, television stations broke into normal programing with special bulletins and out on the streets, ordinary Italians finally found something to smile at.

"It's like being reborn. Out of the darkness and into the light," said Annamaria Torretta, the mother of one of the two freed hostages, as she welcomed hundreds of wellwishers besieging her Rome apartment.

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[muriel_volestrangler]

1. dupe

of http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x870350#870539

[miss_kitty]

2. sorry-it did not come up in search-lock this bad boy

[Moderator]

3. I thought about locking this as a dupe

but on second thought, this article is more about the joy of the Italians than the release itself. I appreciate all of you trying to keep LBN free of duplicates!

In this case, I think it can stay.