Michelle Malkin reports that Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci has died of cancer, aged 77. Here's the
Reuters story.And
here's a link to the AP. And here's
the Times of London obit. An excerpt:
Fallaci, who had been ill with cancer for several years, died at a private clinic in her home city of Florence overnight, said Paolo Klun, of the RCS publishing group, which published Fallaci’s work. She had returned to Florence in the last days of her life after living for decades in New York. In recent years, she had gained a second notoriety for her vitriolic writings on Islam.
Small, beautiful, and extraordinarily tough, Fallaci was an Italian resistance fighter who became a war correspondent in the 1950s and 1960s, covering the Vietnam War and conflicts in the Middle East and Latin America. She was shot three times and beaten by Mexican police covering student riots in 1968.
I'd really like to see a TV movie-of-the-week about her life...
