Italy accepts 147 refugees flown in from Libya A group of nearly 150 refugees from the city of Misrata, Libya, arrive at the military airport of Pratica di Mare, near Rome. Federico Fossi, UNHCR's spokesperson in Italy, explains that this is an "emergency operation that was set up in a very short period of time to secure the safety of as many people as possible". IMAGES of the arrival of the plane and SOUNDBITES by Federico Fossi, UNHCR spokesman in Italy and Stefano Candiani, State Secretary at the Ministry of the Interior