Italy furious as report is said to clear GIs on agent
By Elisabeth Rosenthal International Herald Tribune
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2005

ROME Tensions between the United States and Italy surged on Tuesday as Italian opposition politicians and citizens reacted furiously to leaked reports in the Italian media that a joint investigation into the shooting death of an Italian agent in Baghdad would absolve U.S. soldiers of guilt in the incident.

On Tuesday, the U.S. ambassador to Rome, Mel Sembler, met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his top aides twice at the government headquarters to try to avert a crisis that could cost Washington one of its staunchest European allies in the Iraq conflict. >>>continued

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