Oriana Fallaci Dies

[Wyatt_Junker]

MILAN (Reuters) - Oriana Fallaci, one of Italy’s best-known journalists and war correspondents who shocked the literary world with a vitriolic assault on Islam after the September 11 attacks on the United States, died on Friday aged 77.Fallaci died in her home town of Florence after battling cancer for several years, a hospital official said.

Aggressive and provocative until the end, Fallaci made her name as a tenacious interviewer of some of the most famous leaders of the 20th century.

They included Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

She covered wars in Vietnam, the Middle East, and Latin America at a time when few women braved the front lines, and was shot and beaten in 1968 during student demonstrations in Mexico.



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[Maggie_T]

Oh, wow. Well, at least Islamofascists must be happy. Are we going to see videos of them dancing in the streets?

[Riverboat]

Well, at least Islamofascists must be happy.Nah, they didn't get a chance to blow one of themselves up along with her and a roomful of children and one pregnant woman. They have a quota to meet, you know.

[DesertFox]

RIP, Oriana. You were one of the few literati at world level to have any sense.

[Maggie_T]

That's very true, Fox.

Boat, that's right. They are so "thorough," aren't they?

[DeclinetoState]

I wonder what's keeping Helen Thomas, who's a few years older, alive.

[Etaoin]

I wonder what's keeping Helen Thomas, who's a few years older, alive.


"VIT-RE OIL" ??? Either that, or else she is too ugly (both inner and "outre") for Satan to take.

[Beowulf]

Why can't we have journalists like that here in the U.S.?
RIP, Oriana

[Riverboat]

Silly me. I thought it was FISH oil. She's cold as one.

[Federal Farmer]

There's an excellent essay on Oriana at Chronicles.

Farewell to a Good European: Oriana Fallaci (1929 2006) (http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/newsviews.cgi/Old%20Europe/Farewell_to_a_Good_.html?seemore=y)

[SunnyBrook]

God rest her soul. She was one of the brave ones.