- ROME (Reuters) - U.S. forces
fired at a car carrying Italian reporter Giuliana Sgrena shortly after
her liberation, killing an Italian secret service agent and lightly wounding
the journalist, her newspaper said on Friday.
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- Gabriele Polo, the editor of Il Manifesto newspaper,
said Sgrena's car was fired on as it made its way to Baghdad airport.
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- "This news which should have be a moment of
celebration, has been ruined by this fire fight," Polo told Sky Italia
television.
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- "An Italian agent has been killed by an American
bullet. A tragic demonstration which we never wanted that everything that's
happening in Iraq is completely senseless and mad," he added, struggling
to fight back his tears.
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- The Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi sent his
condolences to the family of the dead agent, who was named by Il Manifesto's
Polo as Nicola Calipari.
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- Sgrena was seized in the Iraqi capital on Feb. 4
as she conducted interviews on the street near Baghdad University.
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