Here's a picture of what a car looks like after about 35-40 gunboard members open up on it. I can't even imagine what a car would look like if a tank was shooting at it, like that dumb broad claims.
Posted on 03/06/2005 6:02:34 PM PST by saquin
I'm still in the dark. Friday was the most dramatic day of my life. I had been in captivity for many days. I had just spoken with my captors. It had been days they were telling me I would be released. I was living in waiting for this moment. They were speaking about things that only later I would have understood the importance of. They were speaking about problems "related to transfers."
I learned to understand what was going on by the behavior of my two guards, the two guards that had me under custody every day. One in particular showed much attention to my desires. He was incredibly cheerful. To understand exactly what was going on I provocatively asked him if he was happy because I was going or because I was staying. I was shocked and happy when for the first time he said, "I only know that you will go, but I don't know when." To confirm the fact that something new was happening both of them came into my room and started comforting me and kidding: "Congratulations they said you are leaving for Rome." For Rome, that's exactly what they said.
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The car kept on the road, going under an underpass full of puddles and almost losing control to avoid them.
Losing control of the car in a street full of water in Baghdad and maybe wind up in a bad car accident after all I had been through would really be a tale I would not be able to tell.
In swerving to avoid puddles they nearly lose control of the car several times, to the point that she worried about a "bad car accident"? And she claims they weren't going particularly fast??
Editor's Note: The following is a translation of a March 6, 2005, article by journalist Giuliana Sgrena, reprinted here with permission from the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto.
If we had wanted her dead, she would be dead. Period.
In all fairness they were Italian--and you know how they drive! :)
But thats just like a communist, never tell the truth, and never, ever, take responsibility for your own actions.
Is CNN on FR's mandatory excerpt list?
Of course, CNN and nearly all other media fail to report that she works for a COMMUNIST newspaper and is an ANTI-WAR ACTIVIST and that her writing is blatantly ANTI-AMERICAN.
But why let the truth get in the way of a good anti-war, anti-military, anti-Bush, anti-American story, right CNN?
I really don't give a rats ass about her story or pretty much anything else the MSM plays up. They have cried WOLF! way too many times between the National Guard memo debacle, global warming, sliming our soldiers, and their gun control agenda.
Yeah, I tried to post the whole thing and it told me I needed to excerpt.
She says that before she was released, she was worried about "Americans attacking them." If so, she is the only one of some hundreds of captives to feel that way.
She is incapable of even thinking up a set of lies that will pass the sniff test.
But I wanted to tell about the bloodbath in Fallujah from the words of the refugees. And that morning the refugees, or some of their leaders would not listen to me. I had in front of me the accurate confirmation of the analysis of what the Iraqi society had become as a result of the war and they would throw their truth in my face: "We don't want anybody why didn't you stay in your home. What can this interview do for us?" The worse collateral effect, the war that kills communication was falling on me.
Can't tell exactly what she's getting at there but it seems she was trying to use the Fallujah refugees to tell the world about the "bloodbath" and they were refusing to give her the time of day.
Sounds like she may have been in cahoots with Jordan Eason. Maybe he sounded the alarm a little too soon. Afterall, he sure backed off his claims of US soldiers targeting journalists pretty quickly when he realized he wasn't speaking just to like-minded idiots, and his propaganda was leaked. Typical libs, leave it to them to screw up the timing of their frame ups.
Look at the source here. She is a communist who writes for a communist publication. I wouldn't trust anything she says about the incident.
Didn't need to read any further.
I wonder how long before her pregnancy shows.
There are a lot of subtexts here that make no sense: Italy reportedly pays big bucks to get this nitwit back because of what? Does the ruling coalition need the backing of some commie rag to stay in power or something? Flip side, seeing how kidnapping Italians is so lucrative, why are the terrorists limiting themselves to fellow travelers like this fool?
Can't escape the suspicion this "reporter" looked haggard and said dire things for the camera a couple of times, and then whooped it up with her captors while plotting ways to spend her "ransom." Heck, maybe the DNC just got a major donation.
Source?
Durn it, I never get what I want.
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