riddled Toyota, which was due to arrive in Italy on Tuesday. Calipari was hailed as a national hero at his funeral after it emerged that he had been fatally wounded while seeking to shield Sgrena with his body. Tension between Italy and the U.S. appeared to have abated only a few weeks ago, when Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini told his American counterpart, Condoleezza Rice, that he had been "pleased" with the U.S. effort to investigate the fatal shooting. "I must say that I'm very happy with the type of cooperation which has been established ever since the beginning," Fini had told reporters in Washington. Soldiers opened fire on the vehicle carrying Calipari on a Baghdad road shortly after he had negotiated the release of Sgrena from her Iraqi captors. --MORE 2258 Local Time 1958 GMT
