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U.S. soldier (In absentia) on trial in Italy for Iraq killing
2007-04-17

A U.S. soldier went on trial in absentia in Italy on Tuesday accused of killing an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq, but his lawyer said his client would reject the court's jurisdiction. After preliminary motions, it was adjourned until May 14.
And which time his lawyer will again reject the court's jursidiction.
Mario Lozano, from the U.S. Army National Guard in New York, denies wrongdoing in firing at Nicola Calipari's car when the agent was escorting a newly freed hostage to Baghdad airport in 2005. He says the driver ignored warnings to slow down or stop.

He is being tried in absentia because Washington has ruled out handing him over and his lawyer, Alberto Biffani, indicated his client could formally reject the Italian court's authority. "Of course, Mr. Lozano will reject that this court has jurisdiction in this case," Biffani told reporters.

The U.S. and Italian governments said the shooting was an accident, but an Italian judge charged Lozano with murder and two counts of attempted murder of those in the car.
Since the judges are pretty much free to do whatever they want in a country governed by the Napoleonic code.
His trial began in a courtroom inside Rome's maximum security prison, Rebibbia, the largest in the Italian capital. Seven empty cages flanked the left side of the courtroom, normally used to hold high-security defendants.
Wanna bet on the outcome of the trial?
Posted by:Frank G

#14  gromgoru: Not enough "working girls" in Israel.

in that case gromgoru you'll have to help increase the available wymins by getting castrated along with any other sour puss ilk such as yourn-own-self!

;-)
Posted by: RD   2007-04-17 20:28  

#13  I wouldn't withdraw our military from there.

We may need to storm a courthouse someday and it would be more convenient if the troops were already there.
Posted by: Jackal   2007-04-17 20:10  

#12  the Italian government paid "extortion" money (Ransom) to islamic terrorist organization to "free" a marxist "journalist" [propagandist] who herself engaged in the hoax. They were trying to escape the country before the the whole Nappy Headed Hoax was exposed for what it truely was. The lot of them should have been shot on site, or preferrably captured and hung as the international crimanals they aree in fact.

This is what we can expect from the [inter]Nationalist socialists with their show trials to distract from the important news from Iraq
Posted by: Galloways Outcropping   2007-04-17 17:49  

#11  Not enough "working girls" in Israel.

Yet, but, there will be. "Fleets In!"
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-04-17 17:42  

#10  Not enough "working girls" in Israel.

Now that was just mean.
Posted by: Shipman   2007-04-17 17:33  

#9  He's probably being charged with "unlawful possession of a gun".
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-04-17 17:15  

#8  move the Sixth fleet activities to Israel

Not enough "working girls" in Israel.
Posted by: gromgoru   2007-04-17 15:38  

#7  We know where this prison is. Drop a very large conventional weapon dead-center, and tell the Italians that they have 72 hours to surrender. Tell NATO the US is leaving in 72 hours. Treat the Italians with the same disdain we treat the French and the Belgians. As Ed said, close all US military facilities in Italy, and move our people either back to the States, or to another, more friendly location. Stop all US tourism to Italy, all imports FROM Italy, and all commerce WITH Italy, and watch the country's economy take a nose-dive. Tell them to either scrap their archaic laws and join the 21st Century, or rot. Might not be a bad idea to do the same thing to Belgium, Germany, and a few other European sources of idiocy, such as Spain, Greece, and Turkey. Let them stew in their own sewers for awhile, and hope they learn something.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-04-17 15:38  

#6  Lozano, who was indicted in February, broke two years of public silence this month when he told the New York Post that the Italians' vehicle was moving at speed towards his patrol.

"If you hesitate, you come home in a box. ... I did what any soldier would do in my position," Lozano told the newspaper. "You have a warning line, you have a danger line, and you have a kill line. Anyone inside 100 metres (109 yards) is already in the danger zone ... and you've got to take them out."
Posted by: tu3031   2007-04-17 14:44  

#5  Close Aviano, Vicenza, and Naples bases. If needed, move the Sixth fleet activities to Israel. We should not get involved the next time the Balkans blow up and sends a flood of Albanians to Italy.
Posted by: ed   2007-04-17 13:44  

#4  Since they already admitted that they (the Italians) didn't stop after being warned on what premise do they continue the trial? On a side note just wait folks this type of "Justice" will be in our courts soon enough.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2007-04-17 13:20  

#3  Put the Italian guy on trial here for speeding...
Posted by: tu3031   2007-04-17 12:35  

#2  Spata me luchi, tu piccolo mierdas...
Posted by: mojo   2007-04-17 12:30  

#1  Show trial. They will find him guilty and make a political stink of which nothing will come but the leftist Italians feeling better about themselves.
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-04-17 12:28  

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