11 March 2005

shooting of Italian journalist linked to Negroponte's visit

from Behind the Homefront

A U.S. Embassy spokesman in Baghdad told reporters that U.S. troops who fired on a car carrying an Italian journalist a week ago were part of a beefed-up security team for U.S. Ambassador John D. Negroponte, The Washington Post reported. Reuters reported that the ambassador, who usually travels by helicopter, was in a motorcade on his way to dinner with a general and expected to pass through the area where gunfire injured freed Italian hostage and journalist Giuliana Sgrena.

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