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Thursday, March 24, 2005

Cooperation 

This doesn't sounds like cooperation between 2 allies:
ROME — The U.S. military command in Iraq has blocked two Italian policemen from examining the car in which an Italian intelligence agent was shot to death in Baghdad, a newspaper said Wednesday.

Corriere della Sera said that the policemen were about to leave when the Italian Embassy in Baghdad received an order from the U.S. command on Monday to abort the mission for security concerns.

The embassy in Baghdad reportedly alerted Rome authorities, who called off the trip.

The car, a Toyota Corolla, is reportedly still in American hands, at Baghdad airport where it was originally rented.

The Foreign Ministry in Rome declined comment on the report, while officials at the Italian Embassy in Baghdad could not immediately be reached. The U.S. military in Baghdad had no immediate comment

I bet there truly are major security concerns for anyone in Iraq, but will that be the excuse they stick with to never let the Italians see the car? Couldn't the U.S. military or the Italian Government fly the car out of Iraq?

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