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Thanks. I just went to LGF. Comment #255 and subsequent comments and pictures seem to indicate that this picture is of the car she was originally kidnapped from, in February. I don't believe this is the car that was shot at the checkpoint. I expect LGF to be correcting their story soon.

I'm still looking forward to seeing a picture of the car from the checkpoint incident.

I expect LGF to be correcting their story soon.

From LGF: A correction:Oh brother. In their video report on the incident, the Associated Press used a picture of a car that had nothing to do with Giuliana Sgrena. Here’s the caption for the earlier photo linked immediately above:

An Iraqi driver stands near his damaged vehicle at the site of the kidnapping of an Italian journalist outside al-Nahrain University in central Baghdad, February 4, 2005. Giuliana Sgrena was snatched from the street as she conducted interviews near the university, police sources and diplomats said. Gunmen pulled up alongside her vehicle, forced her driver and an Iraqi journalist with her out of the vehicle at gunpoint and then drove off with Sgrena, the sources said. The driver said that the gunmen hit his car as they were rushing away from the scene following the kidnapping. (Akram Saleh/Reuters)

It isn't the right car.