Kapitel: Giovanni de Gennaro, Bruno Branciforte, Theodore Schurch, Fulvio Martini, Giovanni de Lorenzo, Nicola Calipari. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Nicola Calipari (June 23, 1953 - March 4, 2005) was an Italian SISMI military intelligence officer with the rank of Major General. Calipari was killed by United States soldiers while escorting a recently released Italian hostage, journalist Giuliana Sgrena, to Baghdad International Airport. Calipari was born in Reggio Calabria. When killed, he was married and had two children; he had spent most of his career inside the Italian police, rising to prominent positions, before joining the Italian military Security and Intelligence Service (SISMI) two years before his death. In 1994, he organized a free help line for gay and lesbian victims of violence and discrimination in Rome. During the 1990s he was involved in several rescues of people kidnapped by 'Ndrangheta and other criminal organizations. Nicola Calipari, along with Andrea Carpani, liberated (in undisclosed circumstances) Giuliana Sgrena from her captors. On the way back to Baghdad International Airport, the Toyota Corolla they were travelling in came under fire, in disputed conditions, by US soldiers that had set up a blocking position to protect the convoy transporting the US ambassador, John Negroponte. According to the reconstruction of Giuliana Sgrena, Calipari threw himself on her, and shortly after died (shot in his temple). A Coalition report later identified the soldier who shot Calipari as New York State National Guardsman Mario Lozano, a member of the 1st Battalion of the 69 Infantry Regiment (of the Third Infantry Division). Nicola Calipari was given a state funeral.The SISMI has had a dark story of subversion in Italy, and its reputation was never good among left-wing circles. Because of this, sorrow for Calipari's death united the nation, as a member of a "suspicious" police force had given his li...http: //booksllc.net/?l=de