The Italian postal service on Saturday will issue a special commemorative stamp for the victims of the November 12, 2003 terrorist attack on the Italian base in Nassiriya, Iraq.
The 60 euro cent stamp shows Rome's Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers with two Italian flags at half-mast on either side and a bed of flowers at the bottom.
The special edition will include a message from Defense Minister Arturo Parisi.
A total of 27 people were killed in the attack three years ago, 19 of them Italians. These were 12
Carabinieri police, five army soldiers and two civilians.
The attack was planned and executed by Abu Omar al Kurdi, a lieutenant to the then al Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musan al Zarqawi, who was killed by American forces last June.
Al Kurdi, who was arrested by US forces in the city of Falluja, has confessed to organizing the attack
in Nassiriya which he said was part of a general campaign against "occupation forces in Iraq".
The attack caused Italy's heaviest military losses since World War II.
