thedrifter
05-04-05, 06:25 AM
05.02.2005
Italian Shooting Incident Report
For the Record: Article 15-6 Report into Roadblock Shooting
Editor's Note: This is the full text – with a handful of deletions made by Defensewatch, as explained below – of the U.S. Army's Article 15-6 investigative report into the shooting incident at a roadblock near Baghdad on March 4, 2005 that claimed the life of Italian intelligence officer Nicola Calipari and seriously strained relations between the United States and Italy.
American soldiers manning a roadblock fired on a car approaching their location in which freed Italian hostage Guiliana Sgrena and three Italian agents were riding. The investigation by Brig. Gen. Peter Vangjel found no culpability on the part of the U.S. soldiers and indirectly blamed the Italian team – which had entered Iraq to pay a ransom for the freedom of Ms. Sgrena, a reporter for the communist newspaper Il Manifesto – for failing to inform anyone in the U.S. command or coalition headquarters of their plans or itinerary. The driver of the car and Sgrena were wounded in the incident.
The Army posted a censored version of the 42-page report on its website on Saturday night, but a software error resulted in the entire document becoming public. The BBC reported that a Greek medical student at Bologna University in Italy, who was surfing the web early on Sunday morning, found that with two simple clicks of his computer mouse he could restore censored portions of the report. He passed the details to Italian newspapers, which immediately put out the full text on their own websites. The Italian press has widely condemned the report, and Sgrena herself described it as "a slap in the face."
The AR 15-6 report text circulating on the internet contains classified information including the Rules of Engagement for soldiers manning checkpoints and roadblocks, as well as the names of all of the soldiers and other officials involved in the incident. DefenseWatch has removed the sensitive ROE material and the names of the soldiers from this article text on its own initiative.
The official Italian report on the incident, expected to be published this week, will accuse the American military of tampering with evidence at the scene of the shooting. Vangjel in his report conceded that the vehicles involved in the incident were removed shortly afterwards. The Italians' car was moved from the roadway and the two Army Humvees at the roadblock site were used to transport the injured Italians to a military hospital. – Ed Offley.
View Report Click link...and at the bottom...Then click
http://www.sftt.org/main.cfm?actionId=globalShowStaticContent&screenKey=cmpSpecial&htmlCategoryID=48&htmlId=2625
Ellie
Italian Shooting Incident Report
For the Record: Article 15-6 Report into Roadblock Shooting
Editor's Note: This is the full text – with a handful of deletions made by Defensewatch, as explained below – of the U.S. Army's Article 15-6 investigative report into the shooting incident at a roadblock near Baghdad on March 4, 2005 that claimed the life of Italian intelligence officer Nicola Calipari and seriously strained relations between the United States and Italy.
American soldiers manning a roadblock fired on a car approaching their location in which freed Italian hostage Guiliana Sgrena and three Italian agents were riding. The investigation by Brig. Gen. Peter Vangjel found no culpability on the part of the U.S. soldiers and indirectly blamed the Italian team – which had entered Iraq to pay a ransom for the freedom of Ms. Sgrena, a reporter for the communist newspaper Il Manifesto – for failing to inform anyone in the U.S. command or coalition headquarters of their plans or itinerary. The driver of the car and Sgrena were wounded in the incident.
The Army posted a censored version of the 42-page report on its website on Saturday night, but a software error resulted in the entire document becoming public. The BBC reported that a Greek medical student at Bologna University in Italy, who was surfing the web early on Sunday morning, found that with two simple clicks of his computer mouse he could restore censored portions of the report. He passed the details to Italian newspapers, which immediately put out the full text on their own websites. The Italian press has widely condemned the report, and Sgrena herself described it as "a slap in the face."
The AR 15-6 report text circulating on the internet contains classified information including the Rules of Engagement for soldiers manning checkpoints and roadblocks, as well as the names of all of the soldiers and other officials involved in the incident. DefenseWatch has removed the sensitive ROE material and the names of the soldiers from this article text on its own initiative.
The official Italian report on the incident, expected to be published this week, will accuse the American military of tampering with evidence at the scene of the shooting. Vangjel in his report conceded that the vehicles involved in the incident were removed shortly afterwards. The Italians' car was moved from the roadway and the two Army Humvees at the roadblock site were used to transport the injured Italians to a military hospital. – Ed Offley.
View Report Click link...and at the bottom...Then click
http://www.sftt.org/main.cfm?actionId=globalShowStaticContent&screenKey=cmpSpecial&htmlCategoryID=48&htmlId=2625
Ellie