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Politics : The Iraq War And Beyond -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Yaacov who wrote (8854)5/2/2005 8:51:57 PM
From: John Sladek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9018
 
Italy: Agent's Shooting Not Deliberate

By AIDAN LEWIS, Associated Press Writer
58 minutes ago


ROME - Italian investigators blamed U.S. military authorities for failing to signal there was a checkpoint ahead on the Baghdad road where American soldiers killed an Italian agent, and concluded in a report released Monday that stress, inexperience and fatigue played a role in the shooting.

The investigators found no evidence, however, that the March 4 killing of intelligence agent Nicola Calipari was deliberate. The Italians also didn't object to many of the findings of fact contained in a separate American report made public Saturday.

Still, they refused to sign off on the U.S. conclusion that the soldiers bore no blame for Calipari's death. For example, while the American investigators said the car was traveling more than 50 mph, the Italians said it was going half that speed.

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