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Italian soldier killed in Iraq: Simone Cola's body arrived in Ciampino yesterday

Rome, Italy - Also Italian Republic President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi was waiting there for him together with his relatives, institutional and military representatives

The Italian Air Force's C-130 Hercules which carried back to Italy Marshal Simone Cola's body, the Italian soldier killed in Nassiriya by a shot during a close support operation aimed to help a coalition unit, landed yesterday late in the afternoon. The military airlifter landed at Rome-Ciampino air station while several institutional and military representatives together with the victim's relatives...

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Rome, Italy, 01/24/2005 12:13
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