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.
I have a second question for her: if her Iraqi captors were so swell, how come she was kidnapped and some fool in the Italian govt. had to pony up approx. $1 million to get her released? These don't sound like friends.
Ms. Reporter: Next time maybe we shouldn't put our people at risk as they try to save your ungrateful hide. (shouldn't say that now, should I?)
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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF $$$ FOR TERRORISTS IN IRAQ =
PURCHASE OF WEAPONS/I.E.D. MATERIEL =
MORE DEAD AMERICAN SOLDIERS ON THE HIGHWAYS & STREETS OF IRAQ KILLED BY TERRORISTS
There was another thread earlier that pointed out that she has been caught in lies in her story about the shooting. For instance she said in her first report that there was a bright light and then they were fired on. The next time they asked her she said there was no light. Just your average lying communist!
Oh my, a negative picture of the US dished up by a self avowed communist. I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!
Hey there is a big difference between this woman and the brave Italian who told the terrorists to watch how a man dies! God rest his soul.
2005: SHOOT A COMMUNIST, OFFER TO PROVIDE A "FULL INVESTIGATION" AND ISSUE A U.S. AMBASSADORIAL APOLOGY
Does anyone expect her to say: yes, we were driving at high speed and I understand the killing of the man who just rescued me. How she was rescued in the first place is interesting. A "James Bondish" Italian intelligence officer just went in there and plucked her out. Hmmmm. Her captors must have downed a lot of sleeping pills.
Yeah, where are all the quad fifties when you need them?
I agree---something is not adding up.
Perhaps because the whole thing was a fraud? A scheme to provide the insurgents, whose cause she supports, with a million dollars given as ransom?
And we care what she says because?
Why is the MSM perpetuating this BS?
Apparently they believe some two bit journalist that has NO USE for the United States, over OUR OWN MILITARY.
The reporter who filmed a soldier killing a terrorist in Fallujah was also "captured and released". The terrorist scumbags know who their friends are.
a very good italian daily is "Libero" at www.libero-news.it but she's not in the front page anymore...if u have any problem with italian, just ask...just 5 minutes ago I read that his father says that he "understands and can forgive the terrorists for what they've done"...I'm shocked...please make 'em stop..
Please elaborate
Her beliefs are in the ash heap of history primarily because of the USA. Her reaction is hardly surprising. Don't expect the MSM to treat this fairly. There beliefs are in the ash heap of history too and they are VERY bitter about it.
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