As WMR reported last year, the number two man in charge
of Italian military intelligence, Nicola Calipari, and Italian journalist
Giuliana Sgrena, were targeted by the U.S. military in a purposeful assassination
last year while they were enroute to Baghdad International Airport after
Sgrena was freed by her Iraqi insurgent captors. Calipari was killed and
Sgrena was severely wounded in the U.S. attack. Both had reportedly been
given information by the insurgents about U.S. war atrocities committed
in Iraq and other sensitive information that was embarrassing to the Bush
administration.
Italy to charge U.S. soldier with murder of Nicola Calipari,
the deputy chief of Italian military intelligence
Yesterday, prosecutor Franco Ionta announced in Rome
that a U.S. soldier would be charged with one count of murder in the shooting
death of Calipari and one count of attempted murder in the shooting of
Sgrena. The Pentagon claims the shootings were an "accident."
Prosecutors have already issued arrest warrants for a
number of U.S. intelligence agents in the illegal kidnapping of an Egyptian
cleric from a Milan street in February 2003.
As WMR reported last year, the number two man in charge
of Italian military intelligence, Nicola Calipari, and Italian journalist
Giuliana Sgrena, were targeted by the U.S. military in a purposeful assassination
last year while they were enroute to Baghdad International Airport after
Sgrena was freed by her Iraqi insurgent captors. Calipari was killed and
Sgrena was severely wounded in the U.S. attack. Both had reportedly been
given information by the insurgents about U.S. war atrocities committed
in Iraq and other sensitive information that was embarrassing to the Bush
administration.
