Posted on 03/06/2005 6:39:15 AM PST by Pendragon_6
ROME — The Italian journalist who was wounded by American troops at a checkpoint in Baghdad shortly after she was released by her Iraqi captors denied U.S. allegations that the car she was in was speeding. In an article Sunday, she called her ordeal "the most dramatic day of my life."
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The U.S. military said the Americans used hand and arm signals, flashing white lights and fired warning shots to get the car to stop. But in an interview with Italian La 7 TV, Sgrena said "there was no bright light, no signal."
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Hmmm, who to believe - our US military men/women, or an avowed America-loathing Communist?
Who do you think our great MSM would believe? Hmmmm!
This scuzz is a flat-out LIAR.
BUMP
Our guys guarding that checkpoint did exactly the right thing. A vehicle approaching a checkpoint at a high rate of speed, ignoring signals to stop, would be fired on by any soldier, any army, anywhere.
p6
one of the posts that i read yesterday on this forum conveniently dropped the modifier "high rate of" from "speed".
what's that tell you?
this is a commie bang on the u.s. military and center-right government.
They did, at the checkpoint, exactly what they always do -- shoot if you don't stop. Even I know that.
It makes them a bunch of socialist/communist.
In her article, Sgrena wrote that her captors warned her as she was about to be released not to signal her presence to anyone, because "the Americans might intervene."
This is odd, to me -- 'not to signal to anyone' would ensure that the Americans shot at them if they drove at a high rate of speed, wouldn't it?
EXACTLY..........thank God for Freerepublic and the likes there of.......
And Fox mentions a rumor that a $1M ransom was paid by the Italians. So she is also responsible for FUNDING the terrorists. Such a Commie B-word.
The sad part of this is, because this woman is "a journalist", our mainstream media will defend this woman and use this episode to continue their condemnation of our military!
Our "journalist" will never tell the American public the true facts about this episode because they hate the military, and they will never let the facts get in the way of a good story, or a good lie!
Her newspaper is a Communist newspaper. The name gives it away. Any doubt that she'd lie to make the US look bad?
The word "collaborator" keeps popping in my head whenever I read about this event.
Communist Party of Great Britain - for socialism, for communism
... Italian communist and journalist Giuliana Sgrena has been kidnapped in Iraq
at the beginning of February. Click here to support an appeal for her ...
www.cpgb.org.uk/ - 25k - Cached - Similar pages
Know what is fascinating, one of the first reports, I believe it was even the Reuters report, indicated this woman had been wounded prior to her rescue and one of the reasons the Special Ops guy was in a hurry was to get her to medical attention fast, so much for her "sensitive" captors
funny how the latest articles don't mention that.....
Responding to the calls "Liberiamo la pace" (Let's free peace) and "Giuliana: una di noi" (Giuliana: one of us), on Saturday February 19, after a week of local demonstrations held all over Italy, half a million people converged in Rome from all over Italy to march and rally for the release of Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, her French colleague Florence Aubenas and her translator Hussein, and the pull out of Italian troops from Iraq.
The following day, on Sunday February 20, in soccer fields all over Italy, soccer players, including the captains of the 3 top teams in the major league, wore jerseys with Giuliana Sgrena's photo and the demand for her liberation, and big banners were hung from the stadiums with the same demand.
Leading the demonstration in Rome was the banner of the Italian communist daily Il Manifesto, for which Giuliana has been reporting for many decades, and in first row stood Giuliana's elderly parents, Franco and Antonietta, her father a partisan during World War II, and both actively involved in organizing the march. Participating in the march were also a great number of journalists and press, many bearing signs saying "Not an embedded journalist", and a contingent from RAI, the State owned Italian television which, prompted by the Berlusconi government, had refused to broadcast the march live.
By contrast, images of the demonstration were broadcast and broad coverage given all over the Arab countries. Giuliana Sgrena, a reporter and photographer for the communist daily Il Manifesto was kidnapped on February 4 in Baghdad just as she had finished interviewing a group of refugees from Falluja. On February 16 a video was delivered to APII by her captors with images of Giuliana calling on people to put pressure on the Italian government for the pull out of the Italian "mission" and to help free her. She issued a strong appeal to all those who have been fighting at her side over decades for justice and against war to mobilize, and for her partner to circulate the pictures she took of Iraqi victims of the war in hospitals and refugee camps.
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