Oriana Fallaci dies

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ITALY: Fearless journalist dies in her Italian home town

Oriana Fallaci, one of Italy's best-known journalists, famous for criticizing Islamic faith after 9/11
Saturday, September 16, 2006
By Ilan
Oriana Fallaci, one of Italy's best-known journalists who shocked the literary world with a vitriolic attack on Islam after the September 11 attacks on America in 2001, has died aged 77.
Italian media said Ms Fallaci died in her home town of Florence after battling cancer for several years.
She interviewed some of the most famous leaders of the 20th century. They included Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and US secretary of state Henry Kissinger.
She set the pace for a daring life when she joined Italy's anti-fascist resistance during World War II, then showed the same fearlessness as a war reporter.
Mr Kissinger later wrote that her interview with him was "the single most disastrous conversation I have ever had with any member of the press", after Ms Fallaci interrogated him until he agreed that the Vietnam War was "useless".
Ms Fallaci divided her own public when she wrote The Rage and the Pride in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, an angry book in which she described Islam as oppressive and Arab immigrants in Europe as dirty and bigoted.
In a later book, she said that the Islamic faith "sows hatred in the place of love".

source: http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/articl...parentid=53061