Reply #6: Red Cross helped Iraqi rebels in 'hostage deal' (also poll on website)

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/08/25/italy.iraq/index.html

Red Cross helped Iraqi rebels in 'hostage deal'

By CNN's Peter Wilkinson

Thursday, August 25, 2005; Posted: 12:34 p.m. EDT (16:34 GMT)
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Pari, left, and Torretta, both 29, wave to journalists at a news conference after their return to Rome.


ROME, Italy (CNN) -- The Italian Red Cross has said it treated four "presumed Iraqi terrorists" at its Baghdad hospital to secure the release of two kidnapped Italian aid workers, according to a media report.

Maurizio Scelli, the outgoing commissioner of the aid organization, is reported to have said the deal to free the two women -- Simona Pari and Simona Torretta -- was kept secret from U.S. officials.

"The mediators asked us to treat and save the lives of four presumed terrorists sought by the Americans, wounded in combat. We hid them and brought them to the doctors with the Red Cross, who operated on them," Scelli told La Stampa daily in an interview published Thursday.

"We also treated four of their children, sick with leukemia."
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