Why should it be a problem? I do not mind if I am proven wrong.
Ah, there's the rub. Talk is certainly cheap, scrutinized or not. I will say this: if there is an honest effort to answer all these questions that are circling around this issue, and it comes out that the woman was targeted by a special squad who were tipped off that she was coming through their checkpoint, I will be among the first to condemn it.
My take on this at the moment is that the Italian press is howling for American blood more for the deal in '99 when those idiots flew their plane too low in an Alpine Valley, severing a cable-lift line, plunging everyone in it to their deaths. Our guys got off for that, and frankly, they shouldn't have. Because of that (and, gee, I can't quite remember who was running the show then...you know, the guy before W...what's his name..) Bush is really going to have some pressure on him to show that our guys can't get away with murder like it was the SS or something.
The bad part is, they may just agree to throw some 25-year old Spec 5 on the rack to appease the crowds, whether or not the Italians were trying to do a run-around with us, their supposed allies in this thing.