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- Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:16:11 -0000
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U.S. Forces Injure Freed Italian Reporter
By PATRICK QUINN, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Nursing an injured shoulder, an Italian journalist
held by Iraqi insurgents for a month headed home Saturday, a day after
she came under gunfire from U.S. troops while on her way to freedom.
An intelligence agent who had helped negotiate her release was killed.
President Bush expressed regret and promised to investigate the
incident, which happened at a checkpoint in Baghdad. The military said
U.S. soldiers, not knowing the car was carrying journalist Giuliana
Sgrena, fired after it failed to slow down.
But Bush's phone call late Friday to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
did little to assuage anger In Italy, which has been holding its
breath over Sgrena's fate for weeks. The shooting was likely to set
off fresh protests against Berlusconi for keeping 3,000 troops in Iraq
despite strong opposition.
"Another victim of an absurd war," said Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio,
leader of the Green Party.
A communist senator called for a protest Saturday in front of the U.S.
Consulate in Milan.
Sgrena left Iraq after she was discharged from an American military
hospital in Baghdad where she had been treated for shrapnel in the
shoulder. She was expected in Rome later Saturday.
Sgrena, 56, was abducted Feb. 4 by gunmen who blocked her car outside
Baghdad University. Last month, she was shown in a video pleading for
her life and demanding that all foreign troops =97 including Italian
forces =97 leave Iraq.
Friday's shooting occurred shortly after her release. It was about 9
p.m. in Baghdad at the time.
The U.S. military said the car was speeding as it approached a
coalition checkpoint in western Baghdad on its way to the airport. It
said soldiers shot into the engine block only after trying to warn the
driver to stop by "hand and arm signals, flashing white lights, and
firing warning shots."
The intelligence agent was killed when he threw himself over Sgrena to
protect her from U.S. fire, Apcom quoted Gabriele Polo, the editor of
the leftist Italian newspaper Il Manifesto, as saying. Sgrena works
for Il Manifesto.
Berlusconi identified the dead intelligence officer as Nicola Calipari
and said he had been at the forefront of negotiations with the
kidnappers. The prime minister said Calipari had been involved in the
release of other Italian hostages in Iraq in the past.
The Americans said two people were wounded, but Berlusconi said there
were three =97 Sgrena and two intelligence officers. One of the officers
was in serious condition, according to the Apcom news agency in Italy.
Insurgents have repeatedly attacked checkpoints, and soldiers have
often fired on cars that don't obey commands to stop or slow down.
Berlusconi said he had been celebrating Sgrena's release with the
editor of Il Manifesto and Sgrena's boyfriend, Pier Scolari, when he
took a phone call from an agent who informed them of the shooting.
"It's a shame that the joy we all felt was turned into tragedy,"
Berlusconi said.
The shooting came as a blow to Berlusconi, who continues to face huge
protests over his support for the Iraq war and his refusal to withdraw
Italian troops. Sgrena's newspaper was a loud opponent of the war.
"It's incredible that a man who was busying himself with the difficult
task of saving a life was killed by those who say they are in Iraq to
safeguard the life of civilians," said Piero Fassino, leader of the
Democratic Party of the Left.
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Bush called Berlusconi and expressed regret about the incident, Bush
spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters Friday night.
"The president assured Prime Minister Berlusconi it would be fully
investigated," McClellan said.
McClellan wouldn't comment on what the incident might mean for
participation by Italy or other countries in the coalition.
Another European reporter, Florence Aubenas, a veteran war
correspondent for France's leftist daily Liberation, is still being
held in Iraq. Aubenas and her interpreter, Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi,
disappeared nearly two months ago.
Iraqis have reported numerous incidents where confusion at U.S.
checkpoints has led to U.S. soldiers killing innocent civilians.
In a 2003 friendly-fire incident involving Italians, American soldiers
in northern Iraq shot at a car carrying the Italian official heading
up U.S. efforts to recover Iraq's looted antiquities. Pietro Cordone,
the top Italian diplomat in Iraq, was unhurt, but his Iraqi translator
was killed.
Also Friday, four U.S. troops were killed west of the capital in
sprawling Anbar province, where American forces launched a sweep two
weeks ago to root out insurgents, the military said. The four were
assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force.
About 200 foreigners have been abducted in Iraq in the past year, and
more than 30 of the hostages were killed.
___
Associated Press writer Angela Doland contributed to this report from
Rome.
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