Posted on 03/05/2005 4:42:38 AM PST by Truth666
Lots of information pouring in:
13:04 Sgrena contradicts the US: the car wasn't speeding
13:11 americans knew we were coming -they were 700 meters away from the airport, which meant they passed already all the controls
13:19 shooting took place while italians had the italian government (Palazzo Chigi ) in the mobile phones
500,000 protesters marched through intermittent rain and wind in Rome Feb. 19 calling for an end to the war against Iraq and the occupation. The demonstrators also called for the freeing of Giuliana Sgrena, a journalist for the independent pro-communist daily "Il Manifesto," and other hostages. Sgrena is a long-time leader of the feminist and anti-war movements in Italy...
...Other demonstrators carried blow-ups of photos taken by Sgrena during her reporting in Iraq over the last two years of the countless civilian victims of the U.S. war, including the many young children who are victims of U.S. cluster bombs.
Oh, I see your point. I wasn't clear. (I work 7 days a week and I have Terminal Tiredness Syndrome. LOL)
I suspect there is a shady reason for their attempt to blow through a checkpoint. What I meant was, for whatever reason, it's just stupid to try to blow through one of those things.
It's quite potentially deadly.
Much about this case reminds me of the phoney kidnapping/hostage incident involving Japanese "hostages." Some here wonder if this particular hostage was trying to smuggle out someone on our wanted list--and I wonder about that too--but mostly I suspect that this was staged to happen as it did for propaganda purposes.
Allegra, you have nothing to apologize for. But you do have my thanks. And here's hoping you can get some quality shut-eye soon :)
she's no girl. what re they saying, we shot her intentionally. We're very sorry about the situation, but this is war, not a game.
After hearing my son talk about his experiences doing guard duty at Anaconda, I believe I would be accommodating to the point of obsequiousness... even without warning signs, sudden flashing lights, bullets impacting the road in front of my vehicle...
This one doesn't sound right.
Yeah, why all this official anger? Like it's some kind of international incident? It's tragic, we're sorry, but I'm confident our troops behaved properly.
There are some loser Americans who rallied on behalf of the flattened idiot, Rachel Corrie -- they are probably comparable to the Italians who protest for commie Sgrena.
And by "sorry" I mean we're officially "sorrowful", not apologizing.
Anti-war activist COMMUNIST journalist. Communists are not legitimate, IMO. It's bull. Like saying HAMAS is a legitimate political party.
LOL, I guess we forgot to tell Europe!
It just makes no sense. Therefore, I don't believe the story.
Are they going to tell them to just STFU, get out of our face, that we are BUSY in Iraq, and to go urinate up a rope?
Or, are they going to be POLITICALLY CORRECT, urged by pansies in the State Department to play this big Italian game, waste our time, get the subject off of Growing Democracy in Iraq, and on to the saga of some stupid, Anti-Americn Communist Italian getting shot by our boys doing their duties?
President Bush and his State Department, which one will it be?
"This woman is a communist."
Yes, and a real life, long time commie. Not like some college age flake. There may be mistakes made on both sides, or this lady may be less than kosher, like those other two Italian reporterettes.
The results may be very interesting.
(......note to self: patience, patience, patience......)
Leni
I'm coming dangerously close to finding the whole of Europe to be illegitimate.
"Somebody didn't get the word." That has happened since there have been military operations. Either the Italians or the senior American military didn't get the word out but the troopers at the check point were doing their job.
They can't assume much, it's a war zone.
One of my late Father's favorite expressions. I always wondered where it came from. I assumed it was a regional, or Navy expression.
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