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- ↑ CNS Story: Kidnappers take Iraqi Archbishop, Kill his three companions Archived April 8, 2008, at the Library of Congress Web Archives
- ↑ "Kidnapped Iraqi archbishop dead", BBC News, 13 March 2008.
- ↑ "Rinunce e nomine".
