Italy probes WWII allegations against US troops

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L31343640.htm

ROME, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Italy is investigating the alleged killing of up to 200 Sicilians by U.S. troops during World War Two, Italy's leading broadsheet reported on Sunday.

Military magistrates are looking at nine incidents where Italians, some soldiers who had surrendered and some civilians, were said to have died at the hands of U.S. soldiers in the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943, Corriere della Sera said.

The investigating magistrates were not immediately available for comment on the newspaper report.

Interpol had received the names of 7 U.S. soldiers believed to have been involved in the killings which magistrates pieced together from the accounts of survivors, it said.

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1. How can this possibly be Kerry's fault?

He wasn't even born yet. The RW talking heads will have a hard time with this one.