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Captors execute Italian journalist

AFP, Dubai
An Islamist group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq has executed Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni after holding him for a week, Arabic-language satellite news channel AlJazeera reported late Thursday.
The Qatar-based channel said it had received a videotape showing the journalist after his execution, but had decided not to release it as it would be too shocking for viewers.
Al-Jazeera quoted a statement attributed to the kidnappers saying the Italian had been slain under sharia law.
It said the decision "was taken after the refusal by Italy to reply favourably to the demand (by the group) to withdraw its soldiers from Iraq within 48 hours."
Baldoni's captors had on Tuesday threatened to kill their hostage unless Italy withdrew its 3,000 troops from Iraq within 48 hours. Their threat came in a video also broadcast by Al-Jazeera.
The Italian government, a staunch supporter of the US-led invasion of Iraq, initially rejected the kidnappers' ultimatum, saying it
Captors execute FROM PAGE 12 would maintain its "civil and military" presence in the oil-rich country.
But early on Thursday Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said Rome was prepared to pull its soldiers out if the interim government in Baghdad requested it.
Italian sources in Iraq confirmed the Al-Jazeera report of Baldoni's death to Italy's Ansa news agency.
"These are horrifying pictures," said one Italian source who had seen the videotape. An Italian civil servant was heading for Qatar to obtain a copy of the video, Ansa said.
The agency said the video, which had been seen by Italy's ambassador to Qatar, was "brief and bloody". Baldoni had not been decapitated but shot, it said.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi reacted immediately after Baldoni's death had been confirmed.
"There are no words for an inhuman act which at one swoop wipes out centuries of civilisation and returns us to the dark times of barbarism," Berlusconi said in a message of condolences to the family of the 56-year-old journalist, who was married with two children.
The prime minister expressed his compassion and solidarity, while stressing his "firm determination to fight terrorism".
Speaking at his villa in Sardinia, Berlusconi added: "Italy will maintain its fidelity to the commitments it has made with the provisional Iraqi government in the framework of the UN deliberations to return peace and democracy to Iraq."