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U.S. troops opened fire on a car carrying an Italian diplomat who holds a senior position in Iraq’s U.S.-led administration, killing his Iraqi interpreter, American military sources said Friday. Pietro Cordone, senior adviser on culture for the U.S.-led authority, was unhurt, Italian Foreign Ministry sources said. Cordone has been leading efforts to recover priceless antiquities looted from museums and archeological sites since the fall of Saddam Hussein. The U.S. military sources said Cordone’s car was shot at after it repeatedly tried to overtake a U.S. convoy near Tikrit, Saddam’s hometown. Soldiers repeatedly warned the car not to overtake, the sources said, and opened fire when they thought the vehicle was trying to ram them.
What idiot ignores commands from heavily armed soldiers in a war zone?! |