Re journalist fired upon, agent killed. Interesting timing of two stories [View All]

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U.S.-Italy Relations Chilled by Killing of Agent


ROME (Reuters) - The United States and its staunch Iraq (news - web sites) war ally Italy face their worst falling out in years after U.S. troops killed an Italian secret service agent and wounded an Italian reporter.



The shooting in Iraq on Friday, as the reporter was being whisked to freedom after being held hostage for a month, was sure to fuel anti-war activists in Italy and put pressure on Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Berlusconi, who defied widespread public opposition to the Iraq war and sent 3,000 troops, took the rare step of summoning U.S. ambassador Mel Sembler to his office.

He demanded the United States "leave no stone unturned" in investigating the incident. President Bush (news - web sites) was quick to call Berlusconi and promise a full investigation.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050305/ts_nm/iraq_italy_relations_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1286350&mesg_id=1286843

U.S. Readies Aggressive Counterintelligence Plan (Reuters)



Sat Mar 5, 2005 01:54 PM ET