Posted on 03/06/2005 12:08:25 PM PST by Carl/NewsMax
Giuliana Sgrena, the Italian reporter who is accusing U.S. troops on firing on her vehicle for no reason after being released by Iraqi terrorists on Friday, is a harsh critic of the U.S. liberation who has written dozens of reports accusing American soldiers of war crimes, torture and of massacring Iraqi civilians.
Covering the Iraq war for Italy's communist newspaper, Il Manifesto, Sgrena painted a sharply negative picture, for instance, of last November's U.S. assault on Fallujah.
"Fallujah is dying under the criminally indifferent gaze not only of the United States, but also of the Iraqi government, or at least the interim Prime Minister Allawi," she complained, in reports still available on Il Manifesto's English language web site.
As U.S. Marines risked their lives in dangerous house-to-house searches designed to protect innocent civilians, Sgrena wrote: "The massacre in Fallujah continues."
The Il Manisfesto reporter made a specialty of interviewing Iraqis who claimed they had been tortured by U.S. troops, often relying on anonymously sourced secondhand accounts to spread the wildest charges.
One of her interview subjects claimed that women and children were being systematically tortured at Abu Ghraib by Americans, who, she said, repeatedly hurled one Iraqi woman against a wall and forced another "to separate faeces from urine, using her own hands."
"And what about children, how were they treated?" Sgrena asked. "We heard them screaming. They were tortured too. Mostly dogs were set on them," her source claimed.
The Italian reporter seldom sounded as outraged over the attacks by Osama bin Laden's operational chief in Iraq, Abu Musab al Zarqawi - who personally beheaded kidnap victims and killed hundreds with car bombs.
"Zarqawi, the man the US claims they are destroying Fallujah in order to capture . . . obviously is not among those pinned to the banks of the Euphrates by American forces," Sgrena reported, before passing along the top terrorist's latest Internet message.
"[He] urged the rebels to fight on: 'Heroes of Islam in Fallujah, may your holy war be blessed . . . We have no doubt that the signs of Allah's victory will appear on the horizon.'"
After her release and medical treatment for wounds sustained when her car attempted to run a U.S. checkpoint of Friday, Sgrena praised her terrorist captors for treating her humanely.
"I was never treated badly," Sgrena told her colleagues at Il Manifesto upon her arrival in Rome, according to Bloomberg News.
Shut up already, comrade. Just be happy your empty head wasn't sawed off.
Maybe, unfortunately, our guys simply "missed"?
Shut up or we'll shoot you again.
AS ITALIAN I'M FEELING SO EMBARASSED FOR ALL THE BULLSHIT SHE'S SAYIN...I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT HERE IN ITALY, NO ONE CARES ABOUT WHAT SHE SAYS...BUT IT WOULD BE A LIE...MANY ITALIANS BELIEVE HER, BUT THANK GOD THERE ARE SOME OF US WHO ARE SMART ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND THAT SHE'S JUST A COMMIE...
They should have whacked off her head instead of Nick Berg's, despite Berg's father.
anyone who has toddlers knows this is impossible, and yet another lie from this vermin commie.
If our soldiers do not already have a video tape of all things military (ie the checkpoint) I hope they will get it.
Hey, you don't have to be embarrassed. You're not responsible for what this....woman....is saying.
The American public isn't going to fall for this. My main concern is protecting our troops from this communist's lies. I'm also of hope Berlusconi survives the media assault. It's clear the intention is to destroy the coalition/Berlusconi for his support and continue the myth our soldiers are assassins.
I am sorry for the driver's death, but I'm suspicious of this one's "kidnapping".
shoulda used a Vulcan...
Both groups are then in very good company ;)
No one blames Italy, Italians, or anything like that.
This woman is a LIBERAL-Communist-Socialist. There is no redeeming Social Value to a commie-Lib.
All part of the show.
She is an anti-American leftist writing for a communist papper. They see American conspiracies in everything.
Saddly, no one from our government is refuting her version so its spreading all over Europe. Nice going State Department and White house.
An unanswered accusation is accepted by the public if not refuted quickly and forcefully.
What a Communist beotch phony.
I don't believe a word out of her mouth...I better stop now before I say something about this incident that I could possibly regret.
None.
Screw her and the people like her. Maybe she just needs to blow herself up....in the middle of her "newspaper" office.
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