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Italian bid to indict U.S. soldier
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YOUR E-MAIL ALERTSROME, Italy (CNN) -- An Italian prosecutor asked a judge Monday to indict a U.S. soldier in the shooting of an Italian intelligence agent at a checkpoint in Iraq last year. Prosecutor Franco Ionta told CNN he had filed a request with an investigative judge in the shooting of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari. Calipari had been sent to Iraq to negotiate the release of Italian journalist Guiliana Sgrena who was kidnapped in southern Baghdad on Feb. 4, 2005. As a result of Calipari's efforts, Sgrena was freed a month later. Calipari was escorting her to the Baghdad airport when he was shot to death by U.S. troops at a checkpoint. The journalist was wounded in the shoulder. The United States said the shooting was an accident, and no disciplinary action was taken against the soldiers involved. The Italian government, which conducted a separate investigation, disputed the conclusion surrounding the incident. Ionta said the judge in the case would now begin proceedings. He said that the soldier is not in Italy but could still be indicted there. 
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