There is another possiblity - maybe there were some rogue trigger happy individuals who hate Europeans, journalists, Italians, Communists and terrorist sympathizers etc ... ? Who whould not mind to see this woman dead? Just wondering.
Some nasty statements here illustrate such attitude.
I admire you for playing devil's advocate. The bottomline question is simply: Did the Americans who fired on the vehicle know that this woman was in the car? If so, that would impy that someone from the Italian Intelligence community was in on it, or that the so-called kidnappers had a mole who told the Americans, or that there's a flying squad of Special Forces units going around with their own mobile 'Star Chamber' to mete out extrajudicial punishment and executions. I mean, I haven't heard anything about a big orange flag on this car with the words in Italian, English and Arabic saying "She's in this car". Besides, maybe somebody else in the car was the target, and not her after all. That will probably be the next angle.
Are you trying to appear idiotic? Because you're succeeding brilliantly.
How in blazes would soldiers who were manning a checkpoint in the middle of bum-f*ck Iraq, in the middle of the night, possibly know that the passengers in the vehicle which was speeding toward them, and ignoring major league signals to stop (gunfire, etc.) were "Europeans, journalists, Italians, Communists and terrorist sympathizers"? Think about what you are posting.
And it is "possible" that that particular Italian security agent had seduced the wives and girlfriends of every U.S. soldier manning that roadblock.......And had slapped their mothers and kicked their dogs too. Any human action that does not violate the limits of human capability is "possible" even though extremely implausible.
What is not possible is that "rogue trigger happy individuals who hate Europeans, journalists, Italians, Communists and terrorist sympathizers etc" would, through the power of mental telepathy or clairvoyance , know that a car 20 yards down the road was occupied by "Europeans, journalists, Italians, Communists and terrorist sympathizers".
Such a scenario does violate the limits of human capability.
At a checkpoint, the only thing that the soldiers know about such a car 20 yards down the road is that that particular car is being driven in a highly suspicious manner identical to the behavior expected from the suicide car bombers that strike in Iraq every few days and, if that car is not stopped dead in it's tracks, it could blown them all to Kingdom Come within the next few seconds.
Hindsight is always 20/20.
Mental telepathy and clairvoyance is always totally blind.