My new column focuses on an angle of the Sgrena case that I think has gotten short shrift in the MSM: Italy’s willingness to negotiate with throat-slitting terrorists.

As you may recall, I lambasted the Philippines for going wobbly and paying off the barbarians last year to free truck driver Angelo de la Cruz (see here, here, here, and here).

Now, the country that produced the heroic Fabrizio Quattrochi–remember “I’ll show you how an Italian dies“–has gone all Quisling on us with the second apparent ransom payoff to terrorists (here’s info on the first). As I ask in the column:

Where is the uproar over this Islamist insurgency subsidy plan?

Update: My friends at the Wall Street Journal are on the very same wavelength.

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The Italian hostage job
CNN: Lost in translation?
CNN does it again
Italy’s blood money
“Rain of fire?”
How fast was Giuliana Sgrena’s car going?
Sgrena: “I have not said that they wanted to kill me.”