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Thursday, 15 April 2004




Fabrizio Quattrocchi - R.I.P.

Signor Quattrocchi was only 36 years old. He was one of four Italian hostages taken captive outside Baghdad. He died at the hands of his captors by a bullet to the back of his neck.


Read a little about this man and what seems to have been his defiance in the face of his imminent death.

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