ABC NEWS Freed Italian Hostage Has Harsh Words for U.S.

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  ♧ state funeral : n. 국장(國葬)

  ♧ honor : v. 경의를 표하다, 애도하다

  ♧ hostage : n. 포로

  ♧ condemnation : n. 비난

  ♧ as of now : 지금 현재, 당장

  ♧ differ : v. 의견 등이 다르다, 틀리다

  ♧ fence-mending : v. 관계회복

  ♧ temporarily : ad. 임시로, 일시적으로

  ♧ resentment : n. 분개, 원한, 증오

  ♧ sensational : a. 세상을 놀라게 하는, 선정적인

  ♧ charge: n. 비난, 고소

  ♧ on purpose : ad. 의도적으로, 고의로

  ♧ embassy : n. 대사관

  ♧ coordination : n. 협조, 조정, 일치

  ♧ notion : n. 관념, 개념, 생각

  ♧ deliberately : ad. 고의적으로, 일부러, 신중히

  ♧ account : n. 설명

  ♧ checkpoint : n. 검문소

  ♧ tactical : a. 전략상의, 전술적인

  ♧ ambassador : n. 대사
 
 

Now, we go overseas. In Rome today, there was a state funeral for the Italian intelligence officer who was shot by U.S. troops in Baghdad on Friday.

Thousands of people came to honor Nicola Calipari who was killed as he took an Italian journalist who had been hostage until an hour or so earlier to the Baghdad airport and their car was fired on, as you've surely been heard, by U.S. soldiers.

Italians at the funeral including the Prime Minister have been very public in their condemnation of the U.S.

The journalist Giuliana Sgrena was wounded.

The Italian and the U.S. reporting on what happened on the road to the airport as of now differ very greatly and as best as we can tell today, not very long after the president's fence-mending trip to Europe, there is, at least temporarily, a lot of resentment in Italy about what happened.

For the version as we know of here, here's ABC's Martha Raddatz.

  Italy's President visited Giuliana Sgrena today at a Rome hospital where she continues to make sensational charges against the U.S., suggesting that she was shot on purpose because the U.S. does not support negotiating or paying hostage takers.

  "The people in the embassy and the people there was they know that we were on the way to the airport."

  U.S. officials say the Italians had not informed the U.S. that Sgrena was on her way to the airport. There was no coordination at all, said one official. And the notion that Sgrena's car was deliberately targeted,

  "Nothing could be further from the truth."

  The U.S. is investigating the differing accounts of the incident. Sgrena said the car was traveling only 25 miles per hour. The U.S. military said it was traveling at a high rate of speed and failed to stop. Sgrena said they were never signaled to stop.

  "So rapidly a tank started to shoot us without any sign or any light. It was not a checkpoint."

  According to U.S. military officials, it was a tactical checkpoint. A checkpoint that changes locations based on security threats. The U.S. military officials said that the night of the shooting, there was additional security because ambassador John Negroponte was traveling on the same road.

  The U.S. military also insists that soldiers attempted to warn the driver to stop using hand and arm signals flashing white lights and firing warning shots in front of the car.