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Calipari: USA confirms "Soldiers were waiting for Negroponte"

Rome, Italy - He was expected to visit Commander of multinational forces in Iraq in helicopter but due the bad weather he went by car

The number one of American intelligence in the evening of March 4, had to go to house of General George Casey at Camp Victory in a base located near Baghdad airport where John Negroponte uses to go by helicopter: but last Friday it was hailing and he went by car. Just the car US troop was waiting for at check-point where Nicola Calipari has been killed. A US spokesman confirmed it clearing that...

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Rome, Italy, 03/14/2005 11:59
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