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    Posted: 18-Feb-2006 at 13:32

After first pledging not to step down, Italian Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli did indeed resign on Saturday a day after rioting outside the Italian consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi led to at least 11 deaths (which he denies the two incidents are connected). Eariler in the week:-

Calderoli, a member of the anti-immigrant Northern League Party, showed off the T-shirt under his suit this week during an appearance on Italian state television.

The T-shirt was printed with the cartoons satirising Prophet Muhammad that have provoked protests across the Muslim world since they were first published in a Danish newspaper in September. Calderolis threat to wear the T-shirt was widely published in Libya, a former Italian colony.

His stand has embarrassed Italys centre-right government, which is campaigning for April general elections.
"May the eyes of cowards never sleep"
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