Posted on 04/26/2005 6:12:01 AM PDT by MisterRepublican
An Italian journalist rescued from hostage-takers in Iraq last month has reacted angrily to a US military investigation absolving American soldiers of responsibility for killing the man who rescued her.
Nicola Calipari, a senior Italian intelligence agent, was shot dead on March 4 when US soldiers fired at his car as he took the reporter, Guiliana Sgrena, to Baghdad airport.
A report leaked by an American army official in Washington last night was said to have cleared US troops of any culpability for his death. The official said the soldiers had followed their rules of engagement and should not therefore face charges of dereliction of duty.
The probe was conducted in co-operation with the Italians, but the official conceded that Italy, a close US ally in Iraq, disagreed with its findings.
In a front page editorial in her left-wing daily Il Manifesto, Sgrena called on Silvio Berlusconi, the Prime Minister, to respond what she called a "slap in the face for the Italian Government".
Sgrena, a veteran war correspondent who was held hostage for a month in Iraq, wrote: "After the apologies comes the slap in the face."
She said that the Americans had not listened to either her testimony or that of another Italian agent, even though, she said, both had given the same evidence without discussing what had happened.
"Obviously, our two testimonies given to the American commission were useless. Or will I be charged with perjury?" questioned the journalist.
"The greatest disappointment would be if our authorities were to accept this insult without reacting."
The US army official said that the US investigation concluded that "the soldiers were all complying with the standard operating procedures for those checkpoints and therefore were not culpable of dereliction of duty in following their procedures".
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She's a Commie. What do you expect?
Hopefully, you lying sack of dung.
The little commie doesn't want to acknowlege that ITALIAN military officials also participated in the investigation which cleared the US soldiers.
Neither apparently, does the UK Times....
I'm outraged that they missed her.
Sure she does , but her communist ideology won't let her to use reason or intellect to evaluate any situation. The Cold war is still on!
The Italian people should be outraged that the life of a good man was wasted in "saving" her sorry butt.
Archon of the East wrote:
The Cold war is still on!
--> Yup, it is cold in here, i think i'm gonna fireup the heater, burn up some gas!
---"Obviously, our two testimonies given to the American commission were useless. Or will I be charged with perjury?" questioned the journalist.---
One can only hope.
She needs to build a bridge and get over it.
Or jump off of it.
She is a lying sack and should be charged with perjury. Maybe sedition as well.
he he, even better ^^
Rescued? Only if rescued means purchased with ramsom money.
She's lucky to be alive.I had doubts about the kidnapping when i first heard about it.This smelled from day 1.Why would terrorist's kidnap and threaten to kill someone who for all intents and purposes is an ally?Why wasn't the American military in Iraq informed she was being released?Why didn't her car stop at the ck point?
Commie reporter babe colludes with Terrorists to get them MILLIONS in funding from the Italian Gov't.
Of course the US would not allow it, so they did 99% of it behind their back, tried to make a last second phone call hoping to get out in the confusion, and instead got killed in it.
Serves them right.
Remember, $200 per 'soldier' per 'operation' regardless how how many people killed. Thats the going price for 'insurgents' in Iraq.
This useless women and the useless Italian Gov't and the useless intel agent all got what they deserved.
Is she still claiming that not only 300 to 500 rounds were fired into the car, but also that a TANK fired on and hit the car?
They seam to think that OUTRAGE only applies to them.
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