Bridge to Baghdad and the terrible abduction of aid and peace workers
Features collected by TFF • September 24, 2004
The story behind - Democracy Now!
Who seized Simona Torretta?
This Iraqi kidnapping has the mark of an undercover police operation
By Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill, The Guardian, Thursday September 16, 2004Iraqi aid coordinator resigns after abduction of Italian colleagues
ReliefWeb, September 9, 2004Italians unite around hostages
Occupation Watch, September 9, 2004Website boasts 'slaughter' of women
Rory McCarthy, The Guardian, September 24, 2004Free Our Friends -current news and info about the case
Bridge to Baghdad official website
Petition - free our friends, they are not instruments of the occupying forces
Please express your solidarity by signing the petition on this page!Says Jan Oberg, TFF director, "I signed it with the comment that the world needs millions of bridges for peace like these courageous people." He adds:
"Those of us working for peace know the risks people take when going to war zones. The two Simonas and their Iraqi colleagues have shown deeply impressive civil courage. It moved me to see that even such people now cannot go safe in George Bush's "liberated" Iraq. When I was there in 2002 and 2003 as part of a TFF fact-finding team, it was safe for people like us to walk around anywhere and talk to anyone - and we did.
There can be no argument whatsoever for abducting these peace people who have worked for years in deep solidarity with the suffering Iraqis. It's hard to believe that any Iraqi could do anything that stupid and morally self-defeating. In whose interest did this cowardly abduction take place?
May they still be alive and soon be released."
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