An olive tree from Jerusalem now stands inside the high-security headquarters of the Italian secret service. The tree was presented by the Rome office of the Anti-Defamation League as a living memorial to Italian secret service agent Nicola Calipari, who was killed in Baghdad in March by U.S. troops as he was escorting a freed Italian hostage to the Baghdad airport.
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