Duh!
Duh what?
If you were finally released after threatened daily with beheading for a month, would you want your driver to go down a well known dangerous road at the speed limit or would you have the pedal to the metal?
Geesh!
It was an accident...that's all.
I disagree. Last year there was a wdely reported incident of a van full of Iraqi's being forced to run a checkpoint because a terroriat was int he van holding a gun to the driver. The van was blasted by gunfire and many of the occupants were killed.
It is common knowledge that speeding at a checkpoint will result in gunfire from American forces.
I repeat - it is common knowledge.
The driver should have known better - hence "D-uh!"
“If you were finally released after threatened daily with beheading for a month”
She told her colleagues at the daily Il Manifesto newspaper that she was never treated badly by her Iraqi abductors. She talks very highly of her abductors, for somebody who was “threatened daily with beheading”. This is BULL$#!T, it’s war she went to a war zone to write anti-American stories, she should be happy; she got what she wanted.
Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com
Duh what? If you were finally released after threatened daily with beheading for a month, would you want your driver to go down a well known dangerous road at the speed limit or would you have the pedal to the metal? Geesh! It was an accident...that's all..........DCPatriot
This was not the case of a frightened journalist driven by a driver who substituted a frightened woman's judgment for his own. Italian agents were involved.
It was not an "accident".
It was the logical consequence of piss-poor and amateurish planning on the part of the Italian agents.
If those agents were going to pick up the journalist and take her to Baghdad Airport, they should have taken the steps to previously coordinate their actions with all American unit commanders along their intended route.
In the modern battle field of instant death for a two second lapse of judgment, IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) is Rule Number One for Staying Alive.
The Italian agents, of all people, should have realized that approaching a U.S. checkpoint without IFF and at a high rate of speed and refusing to stop would earn them an immediate Darwin Award.
Most of Europe has been at peace for too long and Europeans have lost the basic skills to survive in a battlefield.
I suspect that listening to Sgrena was the italian agents' fatal mistake.