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.
Please elaborate to what you mean larger millimeter rounds and more of them.
>>>I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!>>
Are you SERIES?? This is HUGH!! Let me put my BEEBER on STUNED!!
The Commie whore is still alive??
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NEVER FORGET
American Soldiers...
Fighting for the...
Freedom of Others,
Those that train them and...
The Loved Ones who...
Wait for them to...
Come home...
Or not...
Are...
......H-O-L-Y..!!!
Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer
Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDEIRS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965, Landing Zone Falcon
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
God bless you guys and thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Stay safe. She isn't worth a bug that you might have slapped this morning. We can't thank you enough.
Thank-you for serving in Iraq. I hope that the troops who were working at this check point are exonerated by the investigation and that the administration speaks up for them. The media has gotten away with too much over there.
May God continue to shed His grace and protection on America. I think that is the only thing that has kept us from a catastrophic attack.
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.
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Any bets on how soon this BI*CH will be back in Iraq?? Or doing satan's work in some other MuhammaCommie sh*thole?
If it's a choice between believing a fanatical pascifist, terrorist supporting, American hating communist or our troops, it's an easy decision
They did not approach the border in a peacefull normal manner and caused the problem with their behavior.
It was a sad result, but this wasn't American's being cowboys IMO.
Are you insinuating that Zarqawi abandoned his pet goat?
Ha! I stand corrected rockabyebaby. Let us trumpet from the highest mountain tops the enormous breaking news that the commies don't like us!
Good luck stay safe there bud. Don't worry, the word keeps getting out here that the media is not reporting the truth. There was a guy at a meeting I was at this week that was back from Mosul and he said that the media just doesn't reflect what is going on there. I tell 10 of my friends, they tell ten of their friends... We support you and all the troops.
My advice to anyone entering Iraq who does not read or understand English... LEARN! Or KEEP OUT!
Checkpoints have black lettered, yellow signs that warn that Extreme Force will be used on violators.
Read And Heed!... Ignore at your own consequence! You paid your quarter. You took your chances. You got shot...I have no pity for you.
Jack.
They tried it and failed with Blair. They tried it and failed with Bush. Now it's Berlusconi's turn.
Pet goat, old goat, same difference...
I'm with you.
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