remember Nicola Calipari?

From Body & Soul :

For the past week, the American press has taken on the task of reminding us daily of the importance of every human life. In that spirit, I'd like to return to one loss of life they've apparently forgotten about, even though the reasons for that loss of life remain murky.

I'm thinking of Nicola Calipari, the Italian intelligence agent who American soldiers shot and killed early this month as he was transporting an Italian kidnap victim to safety. The soldiers were apparently providing security for John Negroponte.

Yesterday, Commondreams posted an update to the story, based primarily on an interview with Naomi Klein, who recently met with Giuliana Sgrena, the journalist who Calipari was bringing to the airport at the time he was killed, and who was also severely injured.

There are three new pieces of information that are quite disturbing, and which really call into question the American version of what caused Nicola Calipari's death.

First, according to Klein, the car was not traveling, as previously suggested, on "the most dangerous road in Iraq," where ambushes are common, but on a secured road that runs from the Green Zone to the airport. They had already passed through the heavy fortification of the Green Zone.

If that's true, it demolishes the story of edgy soldiers acting in what they thought was self-defense. Right now, as far as I know, there's nothing to back it up but Giuliana Sgrena's word. But certainly the question ought to be asked. It's difficult to believe that no one can determine exactly where the car was when it was fired upon.

Second, the US military command is blocking Italian authorities from inspecting the car. This is especially important because of the third new piece of information.

According to Giuliana Sgrena, the car was fired upon from the rear. The soldiers were not firing on a car that was coming toward them, threatening them, but one that was getting away.

Reading that, I went back to look at photos of the car, which, you probably remember, showed very little damage. But if you look at the photos published by La Repubblica, the first ones we saw, they only show front and left side views -- pretty suspicious, I'd say, given Sgrena's allegation. If the car was fired upon from the rear, the front and side views don't tell us much.
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I'm not certain I know what happened, but I'm certain that there are questions that need to be asked, and answers that need to be demanded.

When does our press start showing some interest in how and why Nicola Calipari died?

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See the article for photos. More atrocities that are being covered up....