The real question is WHY NOT?
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She is a long time Eurinal commie who would easily exchange the life of a government agent for a chance to give the US a black eye.
Just because she says the US troops shot Calipari doesn't mean that's fact. The US fire could have come in response to several shots from inside the car.
These Italians have some nerve! They "ransom" this communist with SIX MILLION DOLLARS to terrorists, which will fund the slaughter of who knows how many innocent people? She loves the terrorists anyway, who knows if she was really kidnapped or just doing fundraising for a cause she loves?
Why aren't people more outraged that Italy gave terrorists 6 million dollars? If they want to avoid harming innocent people, then their action is the biggest crime of all.
OK, you got it. She was a communist and was anti-American, anti-freedom and pro-terrorist. Need we say more?
I hate to say it but now the Italians can screw themselves too.
Our troops involved with this incident had the duty to make a split second judgment call....it was an unfortunate situation...but praise the Lord, our troops involved are still alive.
When you're supposed to be slowing to a stop, 25 mph is deadly so far as guys who are trying to stay alive is concerned.
They really need to get off it. This isn't even a blip on the radar in 98 percent of American's lives. And for the other 2 percent of us that are aware, we couldn't give a rat's ass either.
So, let's let the Italians handle some of the checkpoints and see how they react in the same situation.
The vaugeness of this statement indicates that Calipari did not tell the U.S. Military that he would be driving into that checkpoint on the day of this accident. If he had told us, the foreign minister would have said so in a very specific statement. This general kind of statement indicates that Calipari told the U.S. Military he was working on the hostage release, but he did not keep our military informed about the timing of the hostage release and he didn't discuss the proper procedures for approaching the checkpoint on the airport road. Thus the Italians didn't know what signals we would use to tell them to stop their car and they missed the flashing lights and warning shots from the American soldiers. The Italian foreign minister sounds like he's covering up for Calipari's mistakes and the embarassment this screw-up would cause for his government.
This looks like a tragic comedy of errors by the Italian agents. Iraq is no place for one-man James Bond missions. Everyone has to coordinate their activities with the U.S. Military.
And in a country where car bombs are as common as dirt, if you do not stop when told to, consider 25 to be your cruising speed toward certain death.
unreal the stink that has come about.
this incident proves one thing: if you are in iraq and are not cooperating and coordinating with our troops, your gonna get blasted. sounds like our soldiers did thier job...
and a wise word to any other italian spooks that may be reading: just because your a spook doesnt mean you can evade a US army patrol :P
The Italians, well some of them, are just playing up to the population. Far as I'm concerned it's a dead issue. They coughed up money to pay off terrorists for the life of communist sympathetic to the terrorists. Knowing they were in the wrong they kept it from us and tried to run a checkpoint despite warnings. Agent tragically dies. Commie lives.
Ours guys aren't going to be punished for doing their job without the American people raising Hell. I do have faith in our military system, but just in case, we'll have their back.
The Italians will just have to play their anti-American games alone.
How does he know?
I caught a few minutes of this lying woman on CNN this am. She was saying, "It's not for me to say it was an ambush. But it looked like an ambush. They did ambush us. It was an ambush. We were only going 20 mph, They were on the side of the road, and we had no idea it was a checkpoint. They were more or less hiding there, as if in ambush. The soldiers didn't signal, shine lights of warning or call out or shoot warning shots in the air. They tried to kill us. We were targeted."
CNN said she had no proof to back up her claims, and that US soldiers said they were driving at a high speed, ignored warning lights, shouts, waved arms, and warning shots. Finally, after trying all that, the soldiers fired into the engine block to stop the car. CNN made no comment about the Italian woman's account being ridiculous, clearly with an anti-American agenda, and that she probably ordered the driver to play 'chicken' at the checkpost to achieve an 'incident'. No speculation from CNN about the likelihood of what really happened, just deadpan repeating of that woman's lies. But they did say that several people had been killed at checkpoints since January, that people get confused and frightened and try to blow past soldiers, which gets them killed.
But we're not dealing with an uneducated, illiterate Iraqi here, we're dealing with a so called journalist who supposedly can read and write and speak English. So what didn't she understand about STOP OR WE'LL SHOOT!
They have just been looking for an excuse.