 Fabrizio Quattrocchi during his captivity Fabrizio Quattrocchi was a 36-year-old Italian security guard taken hostage by Islamist militants in Iraq and murdered there on April 15, 2004. Image File history File links Fabrizio_Quattrocchi. ...
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He was taken hostage together with Umberto Cupertino, Maurizio Agliana and Salvatore Stefio. Their situation was made especially difficult since they were security contractors, and were allegedly captured bearing arms. Unauthorized recruitment of military forces is a crime in Italy, and Giampiero Spinelli, who arranged their contract in Iraq, was prosecuted.
Quattrocchi's kidnappers forced him to dig his own grave and kneel beside it wearing a hood as they prepared to film his death, but he defied them by pulling off the hood and shouting "Adesso (or ora) vi faccio vedere come muore un italiano." -- "Now I will show you how an Italian dies." He was then shot in the back of the neck.
The Arabic television station Al Jazeera refused to show the videotape of his death, saying it was "too gruesome". Many commentators have celebrated Quattrocchi's defiance and suggested that he ruined the propaganda value of the video by refusing to submit to his murderers. Arabic (; , less formally, ) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ...
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Cupertino, Agliana and Stelfio would later be freed in a bloodless raid by US troops, that Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi said he had approved beforehand, just before an important election in Italy. Motto: E pluribus unum (1789 to 1956) (Latin: Out of Many, One) In God We Trust (1956 to present) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City Official language(s) None at federal level; English de facto Government • President • Vice President Federal republic George...
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External links Fabrizio Quattrocchi was killed on april 14. not april 15 | 
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