From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
news:pan.2005.03.13.03.50.17.666357{at}shultzinfosystems.com...
 >
> So Berlusconi et al are going "You knew" (because we told our guy)
> apparently not realizing he hadn't told anyone else...
>
> I see a short future career for Gen Marioli in the Italian Army.
>
> Did you see the reports where she's now saying that the shots came from
> the right and behind? That would indicate that they managed to speed
> _through_ the checkpoint before being shot... if it were accurate, and it
> isn't.
>
>

It looks like the checkpoint was hastily arraigned for Negroponte's dinner
appointment 

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/11118747.htm

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A storm forced Ambassador John Negroponte to travel in a
convoy instead of flying to a dinner appointment with the top U.S.
commander in Iraq last week -- and this led to the creation of a temporary
checkpoint involved in the shooting death of an Italian intelligence
officer, an embassy official said Friday

Negroponte, who has been nominated as America's first director for national
intelligence, would ordinarily have taken a helicopter to the appointment,
set for 7:30 p.m. But Callahan said the ambassador had been forced by the
storm to travel in a convoy over the dangerous roads from downtown Baghdad
to Camp Victory, a base near the airport.

To provide security for the trip, U.S. soldiers set up what they call
mobile checkpoints -- usually clusters of Humvees armed with .50-caliber
machine guns on top -- and one such detail opened fire on the vehicle
carrying the agent, Nicola Calipari, killing him and slightly wounding the
journalist, Giuliana Sgrena.

The detail had apparently remained in place after Negroponte's convoy
passed; Calipari was shot about 8:55 p.m.

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