"The investigation has drawn wide media coverage in Italy and the United States."
Correction - drawn yawns in the United States.
"Berlusconi... told him that Italian sovereignty had to be respected."
The sovereignty to let terrorists walk around free?
Yawn.
That post gave me the mental image of dropping an armed homicide bomber on them.
What ticks them off is the U.S. operating willy-nilly within their borders without their OK.
"Berlusconi... told him that Italian sovereignty had to be respected."
It's not their sovereignty we have a problem with...it's their tendency to let terrorists that we caught walk right out of courtrooms.
"Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes."
"America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people."
"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them."
"Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime."
"All governments that support terror are complicit in a war against civilization."
They must not have gotten the memo!
The best response from the USG would be to simply ignore it altogether. Don't respond to any requests and don't take any phone calls.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/11/AR2005111102065.html
Have the Italians finished the job of picking up the rifles they dropped during WW2???