Major Zot!
Posted on 03/05/2005 2:34:54 PM PST by MisterRepublican
The cause du jour of the left is anti-American communist (that’s not a judgment call; she works for an anti-American, communist newspaper) Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, who is now apparently going to claim that US troops fired on her speeding vehicle for no reason other than malicious bloodlust: Hostage recalls ‘hail of gunfire’.
[Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena has described how she came under a “hail of gunfire” moments after being released from her Iraqi abductors in Baghdad.
“I was especially shocked because we thought that by then the danger was past,” she told Italy’s Rai radio. Ms Sgrena, who was wounded in the incident, has been sent to a military hospital in Rome for an operation. She denied US military accounts that the car was speeding past a checkpoint when it was fired upon.
US President George W Bush has pledged to fully investigate the shooting, in which a senior Italian security agent, Nicola Calipari, died.
Ms Sgrena was abducted on 4 February. It is unclear how she was released. Some Italian press reports say a ransom was paid.
Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, one of President Bush’s staunchest allies, has demanded to know why US troops fired on the car carrying Ms Sgrena to safety.
“There was suddenly this shooting, we were hit by a hail of gunfire, and I was speaking with Nicola, who was telling me about what had been happening in Italy in the meantime, when he leaned towards me, probably also to protect me,” Ms Sgrena told Rai radio.
“And then he collapsed and I realised that he was dead.”
She said the shooting continued “because the driver wasn’t even managing to explain that we were Italian. So, it was a really terrible thing.”
Asked if the car was going too fast when the US troops opened fire, she said: “We weren’t going particularly fast given that type of situation.”]
The details of this situation have been described in so many different ways that it’s very difficult to get a clear picture of what happened—and mainstream media has predictably ignored Sgrena’s radical anti-war background. But the story has had a lot of wrong notes and strange coincidences from the very beginning; Rusty Shackleford suggests the entire kidnapping may have been staged. I’d need more evidence before I could agree with that, but in the shooting incident I’m much more inclined to take the word of US troops than an Italian anti-war journalist.
The inmates of Democratic Underground are beside themselves with glee, of course, accusing our soldiers of murder with no evidence. (But don’t forget, they support the troops!)
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I'm not exactly Mata Hari, but I've been trolling DU for months now---quietly racheting up my post count while never betraying my principles.
I'm over 200 poststs and the retards over there don;t have a clue--even though I've slammed Air Amerika and praised President Bush on more than one occasion.
The onse they send over here must be the bottom of the barrel.
Dadgum, already too late!
Bye, Hannitized491."He's dead, Jim!"
haha! I know. Pretty fast ZOT, huh?
Goodbye.
Ahhh earth to H491.What ya smokin friend?Who mentioned du?
Ya think? If US troops were to really want to take this hateful hag out, there would be nothing left but flaming tires.
Heartiest congratulations on another direct hit.
I'm too late for the kill, but I'll have some leftovers if there's any...
'Andropov said, wisely, 'Now all we have to do is to keep the Vietnam-era anti-Americanism alive.'”
I don't know what you were smoking, but DU will support the troops AFTER
that picture makes me believe in vigilante justice more than anything i have ever seen.
theres an awakening comin and i am on the correct side of the flood.
'Andropov said, wisely, 'Now all we have to do is
to keep the Vietnam-era anti-Americanism alive.'”
My thanks to BulletBobCo for the concept of this
pic and to Conspiracy Guy for the captions!
"If US troops realy wanted to take this hag out,there'd be nothing left but flaming tires."Your right about that.BTW,Another strange twist here.Just heard of a new development on the news.Sgrena says that when she was released by her "captors",they warned her that the US would try to stop her.Did anyone else hear this on Fox? Italy is up in arms over this incident.
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