2007年VOA标准英语-Freed Italian Journalist Will Not return to Afg
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By Sabina CastelfrancoRome
21 March 2007
The Italian journalist who was kidnapped in Afghanistan two weeks ago said on his return to Rome that he has no plans to return to Afghanistan. Sabina Castelfranco reports for VOA from Rome.
| Daniele Mastrogiacomo listens to a journalist's question during a press conference at the newspaper headquarters in Rome, 21 Mar 2007 |
On the pages of his newspaper he has described his fear of death and the dreadful moments he witnessed when he saw his captors cut off the head of his Afghan driver.
At his news conference, Mastrogiacomo said he does not think he will return to Afghanistan. He said he is not a star, and he will return to being a journalist.
He said that when he went to Afghanistan's southern Helmand province where he was kidnapped, he had not been looking for a scoop3 at all costs. He said he did not expect anything to happen.
The Taleban militants4 who abducted5 Mastrogiacomo initially6 accused him of being a spy for British forces. The journalist denied ever admitting to being a spy.
Earlier, Italy's deputy affairs minister, Ugo Intini, briefed the Senate on the kidnapping. He confirmed that the Afghan government freed five members of the Taleban who were detained in Kabul prisons.
Mastrogiacomo said, what was done to obtain his release did not violate the sovereignty of Afghanistan and its autonomy in choices of foreign policy.
What was done, he said, "was to safeguard a human life, and I think this is positive."
Mastrogiacomo said that during his captivity he was completely cut off from the world.
He said he had no idea of the kind of solidarity7 back home, but was convinced that something was happening outside, and this comforted him at times of great difficulty, which he had to overcome both physically8 and psychologically.
