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.
Nonsense. One Italian intelligence agent was killed in the incident and another wounded. I seriously doubt that they wanted US soldiers to rake the car with gunfire. We need more facts, but this was not a staged event perpetrated by the Italians or the Americans.