[Brian328i]

We ought to tell them, "Sorry for his death, but thats what happens when you pay TERRORISTS."

[jbwbubba]

I'm getting sick of this crap. If we had wanted to target them, they would be DEAD!. We wouldn't have taken the other guard and that red reporter to medical attention.

[fooman]

Do they really want to go there since they were in Iraq without our knowledge or consultation.

[billybudd]

Yes, the US really gives a sh!t about some no-name Italian journalist, enough to want to kill her and risk enourmously bad PR. Silly Italian nutballs.

[Darkwolf377]

If this was an ambush, a planned event, why didn't the soldiers look inside the car, see the commie reporter wasn't dead, and then kill her?

A dedicated commie who simply lies about this stuff follows in the footsteps of her god Stalin.

[CzarNicky]

It is a shame that the agent died. Too bad the commie didn't.

[billybudd]

BTW, notice the use of the word "slain", implying intent. No media bias here.

[jpl]

When military or police authorities are ordering you to stop your car at a checkpoint, 25 miles per hour is still 25 miles per hour too fast. The order to stop means to come to a complete stop.

[JimVT]

Italy reportedly paid more than $6 million (£3.1 million) for Signora Sgrena's release, which was negotiated by Signor Calipari himself.

What the heck is to "negotiate" when you hand the scumbags $6mil?????

[BushisTheMan]

Who in their right minds would pay 3 million for a Kommie media person?

I'm mostly ticked that money might be used to buy arms that ends up killing Americans. Italy you should NOT have paid.

My sympathy goes to the person killed, not the reporter.

[Bikers4Bush]

Tragic sequence of events brought on by the Italians paying off terrorists holding communist trash.

The only person who should be held acountable for all of this is the skag reporter who caused it all.

[KeyLargo]

"Italy steps up row with US over slain secret agent"

Should read: "Italy, along with U.S. MSM and other Communist front groups, steps up row with US over slain secret agent."

[Chi-townChief]

I get the impression that the dagos f'ed this one up themselves and they know it.

[SmithL]

I wonder why they didn't tell us that they were coming through.

[Enterprise]

"Gianfranco Fini, the Italian Foreign Minister, increased a diplomatic row with the United States today by demanding that Washington identify and punish those responsible for the shooting of Rome’s top intelligence agent in Iraq."

I suggest that we start with this dumbass then:

[thoughtomator]

Gianfranco Fini, the Italian Foreign Minister, increased a diplomatic row with the United States today by demanding that Washington identify and punish those responsible for the shooting of Rome’s top intelligence agent in Iraq.

Who in the Italian government authorized a multi-million-dollar payoff to terrorists? That person plus the alleged hostage are the people responsible. Death by hanging okay with Minister Fini?

[mewzilla]

Funny, On CNN and on Limbaugh's radio program today I've heard that the Foreign Minister has called the incident an accident.

[hiredhand]

Six million dollars can buy a lot of small arms and ammo. Effectively, the Italians have provided aid to the enemy through the negotiation of a hostage release. It's sad and unfortunate that a man was killed, but the recievers of the six million are more likely to kill more than one person with that sort of cash.

[ar15girl]

I mean.......WTF was she doing in Iraq to begin with? Hoping to be the next communist president of Iraq? (rolls eyes) I don't feel sorry for her. Just sorry that some great guy lost his life for her globe trotting where she didn't belong.

[Daaave]

$6 million to free a communist journalist from it's kidnappers? And the life of one of their intelligence agents?

That's $6 million, and one human life more than I would give.