Daniele Mastrogiacomo

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I hope Talibans will never return to the Afghanistan government

—Daniele Mastrogiacomo

Daniele Mastrogiacomo (Karachi, Pakistan, September 30, 1954) is an Italian-Swiss journalist, war correspondent of la Repubblica newspaper.

[edit] Biography

Expert of foreign politics, he works for la Repubblica from 1980 and is a special international reporter from 1992.

Initially, Mastrogiacomo reported Italy's important news as Mani Pulite, Marta Russo murder and Priebke affair.

He worked in Afghanistan, Iran, Palestina, Iraq and Somalia.

In 2006, he reported Israel-Hezbollah war.

[edit] Correspondent in Afghanistan

[edit] The kidnapping esperience

Mastrogiacomo, with an Afghani car driver and a translator, was goeing to Southern Afghanistan, under Taliban control, when they was kidnapped by mullah Dadullah's Taliban men, on March 5 2007.

Initially, the terrorists considered Mastrogiacomo an U.K. officer.

When they dicovered that he was an Italian reporter, asked Italy to get away its troops.

Italy don't accepted the issue and let doctor Gino Strada, Italian not gov organization Emergency founder and leader, to contact Talibans to free the journalist.

Italy pressed president Hamid Karzai to accept political criminals proposal: free five Taliban terrorists, wich one had helped Kabul's judjes.

Karzai accept to free the four terrorists that not helped judjes.

The Talibans free Mastrogiacomo, but not his Afghani translator, on March 19 and killed his driver.

The reporter can return to his Country on March 20. His first words: "I hope Talibans will never return to the Afghanistan government".