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Tuesday, April 26, 2005
No consequences. Not now. Not ever.
The Italians will not be happy.
The US soldiers who shot and killed an Italian secret service agent escorting a freed female hostage to safety are to be cleared of all wrongdoing, it was reported today.
There's so much I don't know, generally, and so much I don't know specifically about this story. I've never been in a war zone. I've never heard shots fired in anger. I don't know who, in this case, is telling the truth. Sgrena doesn't have an obvious reason to lie, but she does have a clear reason to be biased against the people who shot and killed the man who saved her.
Nicola Calipari, who had earlier negotiated the release of Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, died shielding her on March 4 when their car was fired on at a US checkpoint on the road to Baghdad airport.
The journalist - a captive for a month - said the car was not speeding and the US soldiers failed to fire warning shots, but an official report to be published later this week will dispute her version of events, the Los Angeles Times reported.
I do know this: the only way to worse relations with Italy faster would be to send John Bolton over to French kiss Berlusconi's youngest daughter. (I don't know if Berlusconi has a daughter.)
