BEIJING, May 4 --Italy has published a report over the death of one of its secret service agents in Iraq, criticizing the U.S. military for failing to establish rules for checkpoints in Iraq. The report, published on Monday evening, blamed nervous U.S. troops manning a haphazard roadblock for killing Nicola Calipari near Baghdad. Italy also condemned the US for trying to cover-up the truth.

    Italian newspapers and websites carried the report on their front pages on Tuesday. Italians then expressed even stronger criticisms of the United States, and of the way it handled the incident.

    A Italy resident said: "The Americans covered-up the truth, and they are still doing so. The truth is that whatever happens, the Americans will turn it to their benefit. No report works. And we are now under US control."

    The Italian secret service agent, Nicola Calipari, was shot dead by a U.S. soldier on the night of March 4th, when he was escorting an Italian hostage to freedom on the notoriously dangerous road to Baghdad airport.

    A U.S. report into the incident put much of the blame on Italy for the fatal shooting, saying Italian agents had failed to communicate to U.S. officials their plans to take the hostage to the airport. Meanwhile, Rome denies this, saying that U.S. authorities were "indisputably" aware of the presence of Calipari and a second Italian agent in Baghdad, even if "it is likely that they were not aware of the details of their mission".

   (Source: CCTV)