Italian Alpine soldiers carry the coffins of the four soldiers who died in Afghanistan on Saturday when a bomb exploded as their military convoy passed insurgents and the troops came under fire. Ciampino military airport, near Rome, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
An Italian soldier of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stands guard as an Afghan boy aims a toy pistol inside Herat’s prison, western Afghanistan September 14, 2010. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi
Italian ISAF soldiers carry a coffin during a memorial service for six soldiers killed after a suicide car bomb hit a military convoy on the main airport road near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul in September 2009.