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The Two Simonas. I'm a few days late with this, but it's a rare bit of wonderful news out of Iraq that the two Italian aid workers Simona Torretta and Simona Pari, both 29, were freed by their captors in Iraq.
A friend in Italy writes about their return this week, with a couple details that haven't yet made it into the US coverage that I've seen:
The two Simonas in their first public appearance thanked everybody but the government and the government officials that worked quite hard to free them; yesterday they corrected the mistake. Then they expressed their sympathy for the Iraqi people and thanked also the abductors for the good treatement they had given to the four hostages (apparently Miss Simona Torretta is an Islamic convert at the Rome mosque, but her mother --and the rest of the public-- did not know, because the daughter did not want to displease her). It is more than enough to let our medias bark in every possible tone.
Mercy knows no bounds . . .
Update: The Telegraph has more.