Posted on 06/23/2006 9:39:27 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
Italian journalist and former Iraq war hostage Giuliana Sgrena offered yesterday to meet face-to-face with Spec. Mario Lozano, the New York City National Guardsman who shot her in a friendly fire mistake on a deserted road to the Baghdad airport last year. "I think that it would be useful for him and for me to have an exchange of opinion," Sgrena said during her first visit to the United States since the shooting.
The shooting, which killed Nicola Calipari, the Italian government's second-ranking intelligence officer, just minutes after Calipari had secured Sgrena's release from Iraqi guerrillas, sparked a public furor in Italy.
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Only if he gets to shoot her again.
Only if he gets to shoot her again.
Spot-on brilliant. It precludes any further comment from anybody. Thanks.
He should have his lawyer send her a letter, enclosing a restraining order, that reads "My client apologizes for his lapse in marksmanship."
I think it would not.
I notice that she's nowhere near Iraq where her sorry ass could get snatched again.
Maybe she'll ask why he didn't finish her off when he had the chance. She does say that the marines wanted her dead. (I've been waiting for an explanation to that million dollar question for a while)
That was no mistake. That was procedure when some jerk is trying to run a checkpoint, no exceptions.
And she's not a friendly anyway.
The only good communist is a dead communist.
Thanks, my monitor needed cleaning.
Bad idea. I wouldn't come within 100 miles of her if I were that soldier. She's a liar and an anti-American. Tell her to take her traveling roadshow and go home.
The Big Lie, Juan, The Big Lie, you scum!
Love to see that meeting. Mario does need a little marksmanship refresher however.
How is it that this soldier's name and picture were released to the public?
Only if she says THANK YOU and nothing more.
Yes, I do not understand why he has been named publicly.
Let's see how badly she wants to meet. Invite her to a good ol' Texas pig roast and inform her that photos will be taken.
The shooter is probably on another tour in Iraq or Afghanistan. Maybe she should go back for a rematch...err ...a meeting.
A relative of mine, who knows some of the US principals involved, is firm in his opinion that her "abduction" was a fundraising and publicity exercise.
Her communist publication was already supporting the terrorists in Iraq with laudatory articles and had raised money for them in the same way that Code Pink has raised money for terrorists - by claiming they were sending funds to a local civilian relief organization which is in actuality a front for al-Qaeda.
My contact believes that Communist sympathizers in the Italian foreign service (and there are many: until the Partito Communista Italiana changed its name following the fall of the Berlin Wall it regularly received 30%+ of the popular vote) and Sgrena's party bosses arranged the whole event in the knowledge that the Italian government was willing to pay ransom.
He thinks that Sgrena did it for the attendant publicity and the terrorists did it for the cash, and that the whole driving the car through the checkpoint without stopping stunt was meant to provoke a non-fatal international incident - the death of one of the passengers was something they did not plan on.
He thinks that they intended to run the checkpoint in the assumption that they would be chased down and incarcerated, so Sgrena could claim that the terrorists kidnapped her out of desperation and treated her well, but that the Americans arrested her for no real reason and treated her poorly.
The whole thing was a paid vacation for her and planned out from the beginning.
Good point. The NY Daily News, in addition to forgetting to mention that Miss Sgrena was a communist, also forgot to mention that the Italian government paid a ransom for her.
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