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A US satellite reportedly recorded a checkpoint shooting in Iraq last month, enabling investigators to reconstruct how fast a car carrying a top Italian intelligence official and a freed hostage was traveling when US troops opened fire. The report, which aired Thursday on CBS News, said US investigators concluded from the recording that the car was traveling at a speed of more than 60 miles (96 km) per hour. Giuliana Sgrena has said the car was traveling at a normal speed of about 30 miles an hour when the soldiers opened fired, wounding her and killing Nicola Calipari, the Italian...

I was just watching the CBS Evening News. They reported that the Italian journalist (Giuliana Sgrena) checkpoint shooting incident was recorded by an American satellite. The evidence on the video shows that the car was traveling over 60mph ( directly contradicting her testimony that they were going slowly, about 30mph). No link to an online article yet but I'd think it would be up soon on the CBS News site.

ROME, April 26 - Tensions between the United States and Italy surged Tuesday, as Italian politicians and citizens reacted furiously to leaked reports in the Italian news media that a joint investigation into the shooting death of an Italian agent in Baghdad would absolve American soldiers of guilt in the incident. The United States ambassador to Rome, Mel Sembler, met twice with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his top aide at the government's headquarters to try to avert a crisis that could cost the United States one of its staunchest European allies in the Iraq conflict. Mr. Berlusconi has kept...

ROME, April 26 - Tensions between the United States and Italy surged today, as Italian politicians and citizens reacted furiously to leaked reports in the Italian news media that a joint investigation into the shooting death of an Italian agent in Baghdad would absolve American soldiers of guilt in the incident.

An Italian journalist rescued from hostage-takers in Iraq last month has reacted angrily to a US military investigation absolving American soldiers of responsibility for killing the man who rescued her. Nicola Calipari, a senior Italian intelligence agent, was shot dead on March 4 when US soldiers fired at his car as he took the reporter, Guiliana Sgrena, to Baghdad airport. A report leaked by an American army official in Washington last night was said to have cleared US troops of any culpability for his death. The official said the soldiers had followed their rules of engagement and should not therefore...

Investigators have found that US soldiers who shot dead an Italian agent at a Baghdad checkpoint on March 4 did nothing wrong and will not be disciplined. However, Italy disagrees with key findings in the report by US military investigators and has balked at endorsing it, said a US Army official. US troops fatally shot the Italian intelligence officer, Nicola Calipari, when they opened fire on a car in which he was escorting Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, a hostage who had just been released by her kidnappers. The US Army official said Italy was disputing two factual issues in the...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. military investigation into the shooting death of an Italian intelligence officer in Baghdad is expected to conclude that American soldiers generally followed instructions as they fired on an approaching car, a senior U.S. defense official said Monday. However, the probe into the March 4 shooting is expected to raise questions about the rules of engagement given to U.S. soldiers manning checkpoints in Iraq, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the report had not been finished. These instructions include descriptions of how much force U.S. soldiers are allowed to use against potential...

ROME - Reluctance by Italian investigators to accept the U.S. version of the killing of an Italian security agent by American troops in Iraq last month is holding up the conclusion of a joint inquiry into the shooting, Italian newspapers said Thursday. Also Thursday, the U.S. State Department said the investigation was ongoing and denied an NBC report that the U.S.-Italian commission had completed a preliminary report clearing the Americans of any wrongdoing in the killing. The security agent, Nicola Calipari, was killed March 4 at a temporary U.S. military checkpoint on the road to Baghdad airport when soldiers fired...

First of all I can't believe 60 minutes Wednesday is still on the air but it was last night and the timing couldnt have been any worse for this fictitious report from Italian communist journalist Giuliana Sgrena Below is her account of what happened on March 4. Scroll down to see what MSNBC has found out from the Joint US-Italian investigation.....

Last night on '60 Minutes Wednesday' (yes, it's still on the air, despite the forged documents fiasco) they kicked off the show with a story about the shooting of Giuliana Sgrena's car in Iraq. That's the communist journalist from Italy whose freedom was bought from her Islamic captors by the Italian government. By the way, she is a communist and she works for a communist newspaper, something you won't hear too much of from the mainstream media (although 60 Minutes did get that right.) At any rate, the piece last night by Scott Pelley included an interview with Giuliana Sgrena....

U.S. soldiers reportedly have been cleared of wrongdoing in the shooting of an Italian journalist and an intelligence agent last month in Baghdad. U.S. military officials told NBC News that a joint American-Italian investigation found the soldiers acted properly in firing on a car bearing a just-freed hostage, journalist Giuliana Sgrena, and an intelligence officer, Nicola Calipari. The car was about 130 yards from a checkpoint when the soldiers flashed their lights to get it to stop. They fired warning shots when the car was within 90 yards of the checkpoint, but at 65 yards, they used deadly force. Calipari...

NBC News has learned that a preliminary report from a joint U.S.-Italian investigation has cleared the American soldiers of any wrongdoing and provides new details into the shooting. Intelligence agent Calipari had just negotiated Sgrena's release from Iraqi kidnappers on March 4 when the two and a driver headed for the Baghdad airport in a compact rental car. It was dark when the Italians turned onto a ramp leading to the airport road where the U.S. military had set up a temporary checkpoint. The investigation found the car was about 130 yards from the checkpoint when the soldiers flashed their...

Journalist and former hostage Giuliana Sgrena says that the American military is lying about the shooting at a security checkpoint in Iraq that wounded her and killed an Italian intelligence officer. Days before the Pentagon is expected to release the results of its investigation into what happened at the checkpoint, Sgrena tells Correspondent Scott Pelley that shortly after her release by insurgents, American soldiers in Baghdad opened fire on her car without any warning. Pelley's interview with Sgrena will be broadcast on 60 Minutes Wednesday, April 13, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Italian intelligence officer Nicola Calipari negotiated Sgrena's release from...

About Giuliana Sgrena Mr. Harald Doornbos is a veteran war reporter. He is no archetypical hawk nor a staunch supporter of the United States. In fact, he used to be a reporter for the communist newspaper 'De Waarheid' (The Truth, or Pravda, if you like) before it went bust. (This doesn't necessarily mean he was ever a communist, by the way. De Waarheid used to be a huge employer.) However, this doesn't make him overly sympathetic towards Giuliana Sgrena, the Italian journalist who was held hostage by Iraqi insurgents. Some snippets from this article which was published today in a...

Wayne Madsen claims, in Online Journal, that Nicola Calipari, the Italian agent killed ransoming Giuliana Sgrena, was a target of opportunity for US assassins and that he was not the first Italian target of US covert 'silencers'. Madsen’s evidence for this outrageous allegation is hearsay from "high-level European intelligence sources". These anonymous sources report the 51-year old slain Italian SISMI military intelligence agent, Dr. Nicola Calipari was killed by U.S. sharpshooters while accompanying the Communist journalist to the Baghdad International Airport. Madsen further alleges that Calipari was a prized target of opportunity for American assassins because of his knowledge...

I love Italy. More exactly, I love the Italian people. I've lived there and I've visited. It's a beautiful country with beautiful people. Italians are family-oriented, love children, and love the finer points of good wine and good food. I have Italian friends. They like Americans, are suspicious of the EU, and hate the French. They understand the war on terror, themselves the victims many times over the last two decades. When I heard last month that a female Italian journalist had been kidnapped by a group calling themselves the Islamic Jihad Organization, I thought "how sad" -- Italy and...

So, the Italians pay ransom for the release of a woman who was in no danger of being harmed. The money is used by insurgents to buy weapons to kill Italians. Italy not cooperating in finding Giuliana Sgrena's captors. Italians announce withdrawal from Iraq. Sgrena's captors use money to kill Americans instead. I'm speechless. """"New York Times: "..Iraqi investigators who are trying to find the kidnappers of the Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena say their work has been stymied by a lack of cooperation from the Italian intelligence services that won her release exactly a month after she was abducted on...

BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 15 - Iraqi investigators who are trying to find the kidnappers of the Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena say their work has been stymied by a lack of cooperation from the Italian intelligence services that won her release exactly a month after she was abducted on Feb. 4. The Iraqi investigators say they conducted as many as half a dozen raids in a northwest Baghdad neighborhood where they think Ms. Sgrena, 56, a reporter for the far-left Rome daily Il Manifesto, was being held. But the kidnappers slipped through their fingers, and she was released after the abductors...

AGI) - Rome, March 11 - "I want the government to investigate on what happened", said Giuliana Sgrena, in an interview with Spanish TV broadcast by Sky TG24, her first ever since she was freed. "The government is looking at various accounts of the facts", she said, "but my account coincides with the one provided by the car driver, who also survived. We demand concrete answers on what really happened. Obviously an inquiry commission will be set up. I do have faith in them. What happened was just terrible. Our questions need to be addressed. And not only by the...

MIDI - SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE She is unbelievable...Sgrena is contemptible She is so full of bull...for leftists that is typical She is a real whackjob, you know that it's true This communist *itch is lying to you She hates our country, we all are aware She is reprehensible...simply reprehensible Her fiction is so laughable...that cannot be deniable She is despicable...her actions inexcusable She is a real whackjob, you know that it's true This communist *itch is lying to you She hates our country, we all are aware She is reprehensible...simply reprehensible She is reprehensible...simply reprehensible She said go get a...