Al-Qaida: Italy, hands off Iraq!

Extremists associated with the organization of Al-Qaeda demanded that the Italian Berluscona Prime Minister Silvio Berluscon to withdraw Italian troops from Iraq. According to Reuters, the corresponding application was published on one of the Extremists website sites on the Internet.

“This is a warning to the Italian government, which serves as a criminal American crusaders. Follow the example of other countries and leave Iraq,” the group says, calling himself “Abu Hafs Al -Masri brigades.” “Smile Berlusconi, if you don’t hear this call, you will hear it already in Rome ... We give you only a few days, before you see the fact that you will see that you will see that you see You will not like it at all. "

Last Saturday, on the same site, the message of Al-Qaida Organization in Europe, which threatened Italy and Australia, was posted on the columns of cars filled with explosives "if they did not withdraw their troops from Iraq.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon on Monday summed up the results of his losses in Iraq. According to AP, since the start of the war against Iraq in March 2003, the United States has lost 899 troops in this country. 665 of them died as a result of hostilities, 234 - as a result of various kinds of accidents. At the same time, from May 1, 2003, when US President George Bush announced the completion of the active phase of hostilities in Iraq, 761 American soldiers died in this country. Of these, 556 people were killed as a result of hostilities.

Since the beginning of the Iraqi campaign, US allies have lost 113 soldiers and officers in Iraq. The greatest losses - 60 people - suffered British troops. Italy lost 18 military personnel killed, Spain - eight, Bulgaria and Poland - six, Ukraine - four, Slovakia - three, Thailand - two, Denmark, Salvador, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands - one soldier.