2005 in Iraq: hostage-taking ends in disaster

In Baghdad, the abducted Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena is released for a ransom. Her journey to the airport ends in a catastrophe Corriere della Sera, a conservative Milanian, wrote about an "open wound" in March, and President Sergio Mattarella lamented the still "insufficient clarification" of a violence that is now 20 years old. At the beginning of February 2005, left Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena was abducted in Iraq. When she was …