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I have not heard or read much to verify the account I have written about Ghareeb and Enzo. I keep hoping that this means that maybe my source (who had got the information from the Red Cross yestarday afternoon) was mistaken and they are safety holed up in Kufa (as Daniela's account below implies) or somewhere, but I really have no idea. Many of the reports on blogs or newswires seem to be third hand accounts of my third hand account.

The account I have hear from Daniela (1pm GMT), who manages Enzo's website is: "Enzo and Ghareeb were going to Najaf on Thursday along with a convoy of the Italian Red Cross. Somewhere along the road, the convoy bumped into a mine, which blewed up and shattered the windows of an ambulance and a truck. The iraqi driver of the ambulance (not Ghareeb however) got injured, but not seriously. Are you absolutely SURE it wasn't *that* accident your sources were referring to? No one got killed in that accident anyway: the convoy got safe to Najaf, where they distributed humanitarian goods around. Then, part of the convoy got back to Baghdad right away within the day, and another part stayed in Kufa. Enzo and Ghareeb are reported to have stayed with this convoy in Kufa overnight, and again they decided to stay when even this convoy moved back to Baghdad yesterday."

This from Ass. Press (5.50pm GMT) is a new source"The Italian Red Cross, which is working in Iraq, said Saturday that Shiite sources in the country had also told them Baldoni's interpreter [Ghareeb] was dead. "None of us have seen the corpse," Italian Red Cross spokesman Fabrizio Centofanti stressed. But "they said he was killed by gunfire."