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Classified Info Accidentally Revealed in Sgrena Report

On 4 March 2005, US soldiers in Baghdad opened-fire on a car carrying the just-rescued Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, Nicola Calipari (the Italian military intelligence agent who rescued her), and Andrea Carpani, the driver. Calipari was killed, and Sgrena and Carpani were injured.

The US Army and the Multi-National Corps-Iraq have released an official report on the incident, posting it in PDF format to the Coalition website. The Italian press quickly discovered that the redactions in the report - which blacked out about a third of the text - were done improperly. It is possible to cut and paste all of the text or, alternatively, to select and remove the black censor marks. Doing this has revealed a lot of information classified as Secret.

Now-empty original link to the report on the Coalition site

PDF version of the report with removeable redaction

The Memory Hole May Day 2005