Unbelievable.
Paying a ransom is worse than a hail of bullets at a checkpoint.
The European edition of the Wall Street Journal wrote in an editorial: The most undiscussed aspect of the Sgrena affair and the death of Nicola Calipari is not the tragic incident at an American checkpoint, but the fact that Italy paid a ransom.
Also, in a statement issued today by Deputy Premier Gianfranco Fini:
Our intelligence officer at Baghdad airport has confirmed to us that he spoke with the Americans after receiving a cellphone call from Nicola Calipari that he "was arriving with the kidnapped reporter."
Fini confirmed that this intelligence officer is an Italian Army General whose name he could not reveal.