These included F-16 fighter aircraft from Aviano, Italy, which could have been over the compound in about 90 minutes.

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James Wilkerson, a former inspector general at Aviano Air Base in Italy.

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The drink being of a brown colour like that of the Capuchins' robes, the Viennese named it cappuccino in honour of Marco D'Aviano's order.

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Schweitzer was the navigator during an accident in which a E-A Prowler jet sliced a a ski cable gondola after taking off from the Aviano NATO air base.

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James Wilkerson III was found guilty last year by a jury of Air Force officers of sexually assaulting a woman at his home outside Aviano Air Base in Italy.

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The official said commanders have assets "not too far away, " including aircraft from the Air Force's base in Aviano, Italy, and a Marine Corps FAST team in Sigonella, Italy.

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At the time of the rendition, he was in charge of the northern Italian military air base at Aviano, where Abu Omar was flown before continuing to Egypt via Germany.

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The five figures commemorated along with Marco D'Aviano are the latest in a line of 1, 310 people this Pope has beatified - a number greater than all those beatified by his predecessors over the past four centuries.

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