Friday,
October 26, 2007
The
ANNOTICO Report
The
murder case, which was dismissed on the technicality of Lack of Jurisdiction,
is puzzling since murder committed vs for instance
Jewish persons in Eastern Europe were tried in
US
Soldier Mario Lozano,
was part of a road block in Iraq, and was supposedly aware that the just
released kidnapped Journalist Giuliana
Sgrena, that been negotiated by Italian Major General.Nicola
Calipari, who was accompanying
her to the Baghdad Airport, when Lozano raked their car with bullets,
and Calipari was killed, and Segrena
was wounded.
I
wanted to have compassion for Lozano,even
though at 38, he was "trigger happy", but then I heard
his response:
"If
it wasn't for Giuliana Sgrena, wanting to report on
the terrorists and all that. .. It's her fault
that this is happening -- not my fault."
Mario.....Mario,,,,,,
Reuters
By
Phil Stewart
Thursday
Oct 25, 2007
"I feel like there's a weight off my shoulders," Lozano told Reuters.
"I could sleep easier now even though I have to still live with the fact I
was involved in (taking) an innocent man's life."
The Pentagon also welcomed the decision, saying it believed the case should
never have gone to court in the first place.
But the ruling drew howls of protest from
Lozano, who was a gunner at a checkpoint on the road to
"The court has granted our request on lack of jurisdiction so we win this
case," said Lozano's Italian defence lawyer
Alberto Biffani, hired by the U.S. Department of
Defense. "Obviously the public prosecutor can decide to appeal."
Lozano has also blamed the Italian journalist whose release Calipari
had just secured before he was shot for creating such a dangerous situation.
"If it wasn't for Sgrena, the situation would
not have happened," Lozano said. "She went out there,
she wanted to mingle with the terrorists and all that. ... She knows that if
she is going to talk to terrorists, she knows there is a 99 percent chance she
will get caught. ... It's her fault that this is happening -- not my
fault."
Italian prosecutors had also sought to convict Lozano for the attempted murder
of the journalist, who was wounded in the shooting. She told reporters at the
court house that the decision not to try Lozano was "absolutely
incomprehensible."
"It's been hard because the Americans threw up many obstacles ... ," she said. "But for us Italians to renounce
what we could have done to learn the truth is a denial of Italian sovereignty
and I find that very serious."
The agent's widow, Rosa Calipari, who was elected to
the Senate following his death, declined comment but her lawyer called the
ruling "surprising."
"It's a wrong and unjust decision," said Sen. Massimo Brutti, who suggested the parliament's intelligence
oversight committee, of which he is deputy chairman, examine the case.
The court will not make public the reasoning behind the decision for up to two
months, but Biffani said hi s arguments included that
"Mr Lozano was part of the
The case had strained relations between
"This removes one bone of contention with the
But he said others remained, including the ongoing trial in absentia of 26
Americans, most believed to be CIA agents, whom Italian prosecutors accuse of
kidnapping a terrorism suspect in
That trial resumes in
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCri
sis/idUSL2599292
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