that should do it
Posted on 03/08/2005 9:06:26 PM PST by Coastal
International furor over Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian communist writer who claims American troops in Iraq may have deliberately shot at her car after she was released by kidnappers, misses the bigger scandal.
The scandal is not that an anti-war propagandist has accused the U.S. of targeting journalists. That's par for the course. (Yes, hello again, Eason Jordan.)
The scandal is not that mainstream media sympathizers are blaming our military and dredging up every last shooting accident along the treacherous routes to Baghdad Airport. Again, no surprise here. The scandal is that Italy -- our reputed ally in the global War on Terror -- negotiated with Sgrena's Islamist kidnappers and may have forked over a massive ransom to cutthroats for Sgrena's release.
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Looks like Italy is 'going Italy' once again.
Good (USA)
will triumph over evil (Italian, commie "journalist").
bttt
malkin ping
snort!!
Italy has been great in helping in this war - but paying ransom to the very monsters that we're fighting doesn't seem to be the smartest way to beat them. So one Communist "journalist" is saved - surely there is a chance of the terrorists murdering thousands with a few million worth of arms/weapons they'll be able to purchase thanks to that ransom...
Paying it was a BIG mistake which will likely come back to bite Italy in the rear. There should be NO negotiating with terrorists. Period.
Malkin-2008!
I disagree on one point. I think this was larceny by trick, not extortion. An inside job, as it were. Isn't it odd that THREE anti-Americans/ pro-Islamofascists get grabbed, and released after Guido ponies up? (And when did Romans turn into Italians?), just when the bad guys can use the cash. It also offers another reason they ran the roadblock. The lovely Signorina would have ZERO interest in being debriefed by US Intelligence (military or CIA), and she would have been stopped and held for that purpose.
IF the US Military had indeed deliberately targeted comrade sgrena, she would NOT be alive today.
Who's Michelle Malkin?
:)
Now go to bed. What are you still doing up? :)
ROTF....
I say that if they are supporting terrorists then we give them the French treatment.
Where's Michelle's picture? You know the rules!
that should do it
Thanks. I only asked cause of the rules. Yeah, yeah, that's it, the rules.
Go, Michele!
bttt
Look at the "ransom" as a cover for something else. It was a cash transfer, a way for the Iraqi "resistance" to get a quick transfusion of funds to continue the "freedom fight", and very much in the Italian Communist movement's efforts to cripple and thwart the ability and will of the Italian government to continue its pursuit of truth, justice and the Italian way in Iraq.
The Communist party in Italy pulled its usual threats of blackmail and sabotage if the ransom WASN'T paid, and put the pro-American leaders of that country over a barrel. It worked, didn't it? Even though the world-wide Communist movement does not have controlling interest in too many national governments right now, does not mean that they are entirely without influence.
This was a plant from the beginning. The Italian government was put in a bind where they would have been burned either way, because of the treachery of their domestic Communists.
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