Someone? You mean that the Italian intelligence agents in control of the car wanted to provoke an incident, which caused one of them to be killed and the other wounded? The explanation may be less complicated and more obvious. Maybe, the Italians believed that the checkpoint had been notified beforehand that they were coming and just be waived through. The US soldiers manning the checkpoint were unaware of any such information and reacted by the book. It was an accident.
I can recall the irrational reaction of the Canadian media some time ago when a couple of our pilots in Afghanistan killed some Canadian soldiers on the ground in a friendly fire incident. They wanted them prosecuted. Further investigation revealed miscommunications were the cause.
Maybe we should buy the Eason Jordan theory that the US targets reporters as a matter of policy.
And that was necessary because????
You cannot even do that in this country, much less a dicey place like that.
Either someone in that car wanted a incident, or they were as dumb as rocks.
Actually, it was their stupid strobe lights.
That crack about Eason is uncalled for.
The Italians want out, the Bathists want America embarrassed, and they are in Italy as well.
The woman is a anti American journalist, and Eason was pushing this idea i Europe about intentionally targeting journalists. All the funny business going on in Spain and Italy politically have created some connections for all these dots of interest.
Sure, accidents happen. But that car had some supposedly cool and experienced heads. These things don't happen with cool heads in charge. One wonders if the driver had a second set of instructions, or if the woman was pushing them to do what they did.
In any case, we have nothing to apologize for, and that is what they want.
This incident will cause no changes at that checkpoint, and if it does, we are the fools.