[dude1394]

And another hero....honorable italian ally. I'll buy another bottle of italian wine tonight and toast you and your gallant countrymen. Chicken-shit Al-Jazerra doesn't publish THIS video.

Italian hostage 'defied killers'
Quattrocchi, an ex-baker, was trained to guard oil pipelines
The Italian hostage killed by kidnappers in Iraq was a defiant "hero" in his final moments, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini says.

The dead man was identified as Fabrizio Quattrocchi, 36, a security guard.

As the gunman's pistol was pointing at him the hostage "tried to take off his hood and shouted: 'now I'll show you how an Italian dies,'" he said.

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After the Italian government refused to bow to their demands, Mr Quattrocchi was shot dead.

Mr Frattini faced hostages' relatives on live television
"When the murderers were pointing a pistol at him, this man tried to take off his hood and shouted: 'Now I'm going to show you how an Italian dies'. And they killed him," Mr Frattini said.

"He died a hero."