Italy has paid homage to an intelligence officer killed in Iraq by US forces, giving him a full state funeral that was tinged with anger over how he was gunned down while protecting a freed Italian hostage.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/32D3D404-CC5E-4FDE-8C33-A784F54F6A87.htm
http://tinyurl.com/5uoa6

US Attack Against Italians in Baghdad was Deliberate
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/557503/edit

Italian hostage accuses US of trying to kill her as thousands mourn her rescuer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/558600/

Shattered bridges
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/558605/


Outrage as US soldiers kill hostage rescue hero :

'The hardest moment was when I saw the person who had saved me die in my arms,' she said. Her poignant words and weak, haggard appearance as she had to be helped from the jet that brought her back from Baghdad are fuelling national rage.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1431436,00.html



From Information Clearing House