I don't know who killed the activist and communist journalist, but I have doubts about the official story. I've been reading his blog [Italian http://guerrillaradio.iobloggo.com/] and it seems that Palestinians, even Salafist fundamentalists, would be far down the list of suspects.
Arrigoni has been unwavering in his support, often belligerent, for the Palestinian people. He has documented the atrocities committed by Israel against them. He is a meticulous and tenacious journalist whose blogs and newspaper columns (Il Manifesto) are chock full of quite specific and timely information. He's a man with one foot in the modern world of newspaper journalism and the other in the underground. And he was fearless, absolutely fearless.
His latest entries were about the Israeli reprisals for their five slain settlers. He refers to the resulting attack on the city of Awarta alternately as a "pogrom" and a "siege".
I do not here allege that the Israelis killed him, but I'm sure they are glad he is dead.
Here is a video of Arrigoni rebutting comments made by a supporter of Israel during a rally for Israel in Rome. I won't bother to translate as you have heard it all before: only democracy in the Mideast, surrounded by enemies who want to destroy her...
The rally was called "for the truth, for Israel."
Also on the list of suspects is Sylvio Berlusconi, whom Vito calls Prime Minister Bunga Bunga. He also chides Il Ducino for wanting to bring Israel into the European Union, and a million other things. I'm sure Berlusconi isn't in mourning either.
It's not likely that the Egyptians killed Arrigoni but he did post a photo of the residence where Hosni Mubarak is under house arrest. He asks how a man with no heart could suffer a heart attack? [pithier in Italian]
And then there is the good ol' U.S.A. Arrigoni is rather anti-imperialist.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/world/middleeast/10iraq.html
Ciao Vito! Bravo compagno, bravo.
