How to win friends and influence people
This is really going to improve Italian public opinion about being involved in the Coalition of the Willing:
March 4 (Bloomberg)—Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi demanded the U.S. explain the shooting death of an Italian officer at a U.S.-controlled Baghdad checkpoint who was escorting a journalist freed in Iraq after a month in captivity.And what a horrific experience, having survived her kidnapping, for Giuliana Sgrena.
The shooting occurred after a convoy accompanying Giuliana Sgrena to the airport for her return trip to Italy was stopped at the checkpoint and shooting broke out, Berlusconi said at a press conference in Rome. The Italian intelligence officer, Nicola Calipari, saved Sgrena’s life by using his body to shield her from the gunfire. Sgrena was also shot in the incident, Berlusconi said…
(Full article on Bloomberg)