
“Oriana Fallaci, a bold and abrasive journalist who used merciless grilling to make some of the world’s movers and shakers, from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to Henry Kissinger, lower their guard, has died in her native Florence…&rdsquo; During her half-century career, Falaci was an outspoken Atheist and defender of freedom, Enlightenment and secularism. She was a frequent target of Islamists who have expressed “relief” over her passing.