(29 Sep 2004) SHOTLIST
Night shots
1. Plane landing at airport
2. Close up plane taxiing on tarmac
3. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi greets pilot in front of plane, then goes up steps of plane and inside
4. Freed hostage Simona Pari comes down steps -large crowd of media at bottom of steps
5. Freed hostage Simona Torretta coming down steps
6. Torretta and Pari walk towards camera, smiling and posing for photos
7. They walk across tarmac, then walk back again
8. Media scrum as they enter terminal
9. Pan from one police helicopter to a group, including the two women, walking across tarmac towards another police helicopter
10. Media
11. Helicopter takes off
12. Various exteriors of police station where women were being debriefed
STORYLINE
Two Italian aid workers, kidnapped in Iraq three weeks ago, arrived home on Tuesday night having been released hours earlier.
Simona Pari and Simona Torretta arrived on a private jet at Ciampino military airport in Rome shortly after 11 p.m. local (2100 GMT).
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who had announced the release of the two workers earlier in the day, was at the airport to welcome the women, along with relatives, friends and colleagues.
The two, dressed in long white tunics, smiled as they got off the plane.
They held hands as they walked on the tarmac, their relatives by their side.
Both appeared to be in good health.
"It went well, we have been treated with a lot of respect," Torretta told Italian news agencies.
The two Italians, both 29, were handed over to the Red Cross along with two Iraqis who were abducted with them in Baghdad on September the 7th.
The two women were working for the aid agency "Un Ponte Per ..." ("A Bridge To..."), and were involved in school and water projects.
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