No. She is just a liar and a fraud who willingly helped stage her own kidnapping for the propaganda and financial benefit of her terrorist friends.
Giuliana Sgrena "begging" for her life.
Brooklyn Bridge: For Sale
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.
No. She is just a liar and a fraud who willingly helped stage her own kidnapping for the propaganda and financial benefit of her terrorist friends.
Giuliana Sgrena "begging" for her life.
Brooklyn Bridge: For Sale
Use your math skills
Parish the thought! I suspect the goat was in on it for a threesome.
Oops! That should read "Perish the thought". Don't want to get the clergy involved here.
I don't understand the argument. If the Americans really wanted her dead, wouldn't it have been quite easy to mortally wound her in the car? Also, she received medical attention at a US Army base. It would have presented another ideal opportunity to knock her off. To believe the words of a self proclaimed anti-american Marxist is loony.
She'd probably pay to have sex with Lenin's preserved body.
Your message should be repeated. Yes, we should be screaming about this:
HOSTAGE RANSOM BY EURO GOVT'S FOR APPEASING EUROPEAN COMMUNISTS WHO VENTURED INTO IRAQ TO STIR UP ANTI-AMERICAN REPORTS =
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
She is FAKE, FAKE, FAKE. Also heard it's millions not hundreds of thousand. Millions for a fake kidnapping!
A couple of weeks ago, on The Maryland Public Broadcast station, I watched a special which included a scene that showed a car approaching a checkpoint after ignoring warnings and was fired on. I seem to recall the car finally slammed into reverse and left.
I too think there should be an investigation.
Find out how the occupants of an oncoming vehicle, ignoring all check point procedure in a hostile murder zone, and after being fired on by our troops, still survived. If they had been carrying explosives, they could have detonated themselves and killed everyone on duty at that checkpoint. The commanding officer should take full responsibility for any occupant of that vehicle who crawled away from that encounter.
This crazy Italian reporter has claimed that 300-400 rounds were fired into the vehicle. However, on another website there is a photo of the vehicle with only the front of the vehicle damaged which would seem to corroborate the U.S. soldiers story.
Thank you for your service. My Marine son is in Kuwait now and will be in Iraq soon. All of you are in our prayers.
Absolutely correct. We should have some form of light artillery aimed in both directions at all of our check points. Small arms fire is just not sufficient to stop a determined Islamofacist. It's only a matter of time before they equip these murdering insects with body armor to insure survivability to the point of maximum casualties.
So do I - remember the scam the Japanese pulled? At least the Japanese people are sophisticated enough to be ashamed of their "hostages" instead of making heroes out of them.
This whole thing was just another way to launder money to the terrorists.
Please provide, if you can, an alternative daily Italian paper over there, on the web (in Italian is fine) from the conservative or anti-Communist perspective , that can give us a different view of this whole thing, compared to the lies of il Manifesto, La Repubblica, Corriere, etc. etc.
Caio Hudobna, could help us with some perspective on this reporter; and how people in Rome are reacting to her claims?
"Mistakes are made sometimes but this is the atmosphere created by the insurgents, not us."
We know what you say is the truth, ac-rep.
We pray for all of you amazing men and women every day; actually several times a day.
Thank you.
We are so in debt to you.
God bless you.
Exactly right. According to news reports on captured Al-Qaeda documents, after Spain is split off from the coalition, Italy is the next target. It worked with Spain because of the railway bombing but it also caused a backlash against the Islamonazis. The terrorists are being a little more subtle this time, working hand-in-glove with their liberal/socialist/communist allies.
Gotta love the MSM, don'cha? Useful idiots for terrorists.
, Sgrena praised her terrorist captors for treating her humanely.
"I was never treated badly,"
She was never a "captive".
So what are you saying exactly? You tell me, please
BIGGER ROUNDS! MORE OF THEM! TO MAKE MORE HOLES! TO TAKE OUT PEOPLE THAT WRITE FOR COMMUNIST PAPERS. Get it?
I want to know who that Italian Bitch was trying to smuggle out of the country when she tried to run the road block!
I am not up to speed on this story; is she really a fake?
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