A U.S. soldier has been ordered to stand trial in Italy for the deadly shooting of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari in Iraq nearly two years ago. Calipari was escorting the Italian reporter Giuliana Sgrena out of Iraq following her release from a month-long abduction. The soldier -- Mario Lozano of the 69th Infantry Regiment in New York -- is likely to be tried in absentia. Sgrena joins with her reaction. [includes rush transcript]

In Italy, a U.S. soldier has been ordered to stand trial for the deadly shooting of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari in Iraq nearly two years ago. Calipari was escorting the Italian reporter Giuliana Sgrena out of Iraq following her release from a month-long abduction. The soldier -- Mario Lozano of the 69th Infantry Regiment in New York -- is likely to be tried in absentia.

On Thursday, the Italian Foreign Ministry urged the United States to cooperate on the case. U.S. authorities have so far refused to give more details about the soldier and have refused to share documents concerning the shooting.

The Pentagon maintains Calipari’s killing was an accident and it considers the case closed. In a statement Mario Lozano said “My side of the story was accurately portrayed in the Army’s report. I simply thought it was the enemy.” Giuliana Sgrena joins us on the phone from Finland. She was in the car with Nicola Calipari and wrote about her experience in the book “Friendly Fire: The Remarkable Story of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq.”

• Giuliana Sgrena. Veteran foreign correspondent for the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto. She was held hostage by the Iraqi resistance in Iraq and survived an ambush-style attack by US forces immediately after being freed. A Senior Italian intelligence official, Nicola Calipari, was killed in that attack. She wrote about the incident in her book “Friendly Fire: The Remarkable Story of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq.”