Reply #113: The guy they killed was the negotiator [View All]

[Rose Siding]

ROME -- Nicola Calipari was a veteran Italian secret service agent and practiced negotiator who had helped return two hostages kidnapped in Iraq home to their loved ones in Italy.

At least once before, Calipari reportedly came close to negotiating the release of yet another Italian hostage -- the journalist Giuliana Sgrena -- but left Baghdad empty-handed, according to the news agency ANSA.
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News of Calipari's death brought grief to other former hostages and their relatives.

"Nicola Calipari was a beautiful person, a simple person. He was the person who freed me," Simona Torretta told ANSA on Friday as she left Calipari's home, where she had gone to pay her respects and meet with his family.
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Calipari, 50, was married and had a 19-year-old daughter and a 13-year-old son. He was a 20-year veteran of the police force, and before moving on to Italy's secret services he had headed the immigration office for Rome's police.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/03/04/agent_killed_in_iraq_negotiated_releases/