Entire pages of the US report had been blackened out
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You can see how much info, that the US didn't want to be made public the Italians revealed anyway.
Posted on 05/02/2005 9:05:53 AM PDT by QQQQQ
Italian media have published classified sections of an official US military inquiry into the accidental killing of an Italian agent in Baghdad. The 40-page report was censored by the Pentagon before being officially published on Saturday.
Italy has refused to accept the US report's findings and is to publish its own version of events later this week.
Details of the official report were published in newspapers on Sunday with censored material restored in full.
Missing text
A Greek medical student at Bologna University who was surfing the web early on Sunday found that with two simple clicks of his computer mouse he could restore censored portions of the report.
He passed the details to Italian newspapers which immediately put out the full text on their own websites.
The missing text contains the names and ranks of all of the American military personnel involved in the killing of Nicola Calipari, the Italian agent who was given a state funeral and awarded Italy's highest medal of valour.
It also reveals the rules of engagement in operation at the military checkpoint near Baghdad airport which have been contested by the Italian authorities.
The censored sections include recommendations that the American military modify their checkpoint procedures to give better and clearer warning signs to approaching vehicles.
The official Italian report on the incident expected to be published this week will accuse the American military of tampering with evidence at the scene of the shooting.
The Americans invited two Italians to join in their inquiry, but the Italian representatives protested at what they claimed was lack of objectivity in presenting the evidence and returned to Rome.
Relations between Rome and Washington remain tense.
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Differing Accounts:
US military: Car approaches checkpoint at high speed Troops attempt to tell driver to stop with arm signals, lights and warning shots Soldiers shoot into engine
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Italian government: Italy makes all necessary contacts with the US for safe passage The driver stops immediately when a light flashes 10m away At the same time, shots are fired into car for 10-15 seconds
Iraq shooting: Differing accounts
It is highly irresponsible on the part of the Italian media to publish the parts that the US lines out, it may jeopardize lives and give info to the terrorists about our procedures and rules of engagement at checkpoints.
Entire pages of the US report had been blackened out
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You can see how much info, that the US didn't want to be made public the Italians revealed anyway.
Et tu, Italia?
Being of Italian descent, this is a shock to the system.
You have to thank Bill Gates too ... MS Word saves all sorts of changes and keeps them, even though they're not displayed. Well, you can display them.
Got any links so that we can give the Italian media responsible a good old-fashioned US freeping?
Well, I am sure not all Italians are like that -- there, as here, the leftist press is trying to do everything to damage the US and Italy, I might add, by helping the terrorists.
Did they happen to dig up WHY THEY DIDN'T STOP?
this commie lady is really Full of it. I remember hearing there were hundreds of bullets shot at her.
"A forensic examination of the car found 11 bullet holes, and that a trajectory analysis showed they all came from one point of origin - implying that only one man had shot at the car."
It might be irresponsible, but how stupid is the Pentagon if they released an unredacted pdf document? All you do is convert it to a text file, and the blacked out portions magically reappear. They should have manually blacked out portions, scanned them, and posted them on-line as gifs or tiffs or anything else. Seriously, this is just incompetent. Most 13 year olds could create a more secure document. Oy.
I am sure the redactions are important, but most ROE's are not secret and are easily accesed throughout the web. Most of the ROE's are common sense I still have my green ROE card from the invasion. Its simple stuff like you always maintain the right to self defense, rule on enemy combatants that raise there arms in surrender and stuff.
Well, if they do, I'm sure it will go something like, "George Bush that evil American cowboy is the reason we couldn't stop."
That was my first thought as well. What a bonehead move...
Well, I don't have any links to the papers, but here is the link to the Italian Embassy in the US.
I don't know if the Italian government has any more influence over the press, than we do here, but they should have made sure to only provide the media the sanitized report. (Of course the US should have made sure, before handing over anything, that the censored portions couldn't be restored)
http://www.italyemb.org/Contact%20us.htm
Press and Information Office
Tel (202) 612-4444
Fax (202) 518-2154
For general information e-mail: stampa@itwash.org
But I would go light on accusing all Italians for their media, we have the same thing here, unfortunately.
"Italy has..." !!!
Remember folks this is the BBC talking here.
I doubt the Italian media can do anything more with their media than we can do with ours. And ours sucks.
IF TRUE, somebody is in deep doodoo with the information security folks.
Utterly idiotic. Whoever published a digital document with the redacted portions still imbedded ought to be drawn and quartered.
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