[libs_kma]

"BTW good shooting Marines!

I second that! Don't want to get shot? Don't speed up to a checkpoint with armed US fighting forces. It's not rocket science. If I'm a soldier at that checkpoint and it comes down to what looks like a choice between me filling a body bag and someone else, I'm going to let someone else fill the body bag.

I haven't seen anywhere yet where they've said who was driving the car. That might tend to be a fact worth mentioning in this story. But maybe the truth doesn't look good for lefty's.

[cdrw]

Italian Intelligence should have turned the hostage over to us for transport and she should have been riding in the armored vehicle instead of being shot at by it. Its very possible that their heroics and lack of coordination got one of their own killed. It sucks to be them. Didn't the same thing nearly happen to French intelligence who were operating in Iraq independent of us on a hostage deal???

[johnb838]

Very true. WHO WAS DRIVING THE CAR? I keep thinking its going to come out but it has not.