Posted on 03/07/2005 9:21:02 PM PST by SandRat
The claims of an Italian journalist who says U.S. troops shot her for no reason after she was released by terrorist kidnappers on Friday keep getting wilder and wilder.
Now Giuliana Sgrena, who writes for the anti-American newspaper Il Manifesto, insists that U.S. forces used a tank to gun her and her entourage down.
"A tank started to shoot at us without any sign or any light," Sgrena maintained to reporters on Monday. "It was not a checkpoint, so I can't explain it." She also hinted that U.S. forces deliberately targeted her, saying that they had been told she and her rescuers were on their way.
"Our car was driving slowly," and "the Americans fired without motive," she wrote in a report for Il Manifesto on Sunday.
U.S. military spokesmen have admitted that troops fired on Sgrena's car, but did so only because it was trying to run a military checkpoint, but that no tanks were involved in the incident.
He's a guy on the radio, but that's not important now 1
1: © 1977, Airplane
:-)
"The only good Communist I've ever seen was dead."
1: Sheridan never said; "The only good Indian is a dead Indian".
Soon she will have the office next to Ward Churchill and be teaching American history.
I think you've got it. Much smoke and mirrors to deflect from the real story - the ransom paid.
BINGO! Little split with the "terrorists" to fund her Communist brotherhood?
I believe it was actually a secret space based rail gun.
Damn Star Wars crap
He was flown back to Italy for the funeral. If they didn't autopsy, that's prima facie evidence of a cover up. Autopsies are routine. A couple of hours and then you have all the samples you need to investigate as thoroughly as you want. Autopsy is also necessary to ensure that the cause of death is the same as what you THINK the cause of death is.
I was thinking that she probably would have been placed on teh floor or maybe laying on the back seat to keep her out of view. So she would never have seen a check point or signals by soldiers to slow down.
If you had just been released by kidnappers, you would be driving as fast as possible to get out of dodge...am I wrong?
I don't consider socialist to be a kinder, gentler communism any more. It's pretty much all the same to me.
If the USA wanted her dead... there is little chance she would still be whining
As she is a commie, the proper approach to her kidnapping should have been: please keep her, and as long as you do, we might even negotiate per diem allowance...
Rest assured that if she had been "targeted" by US Forces, she would not have been able to give interviews the next day.
Perhaps the solution is to return her to the insurgents, get back the ransom money and let her live with her kind forever after.
Or may be she would like to have another run at freedom. Practice makes perfect.
Both sides agree the incident occurred at a checkpoint.
Both sides agree the car did not stop at the checkpoint.
Do the math: war-zone checkpoint plus car not stopping equals ... ?
Oh, right, 2+2=5, Winston Smith...
Michelle Malkin has this interesting little tidbit on her site.........
CNN DOES IT AGAIN
By Michelle Malkin · March 08, 2005 06:49 AM
Yesterday, CNN published an article stating:
In an article published Sunday in her communist newspaper, Il Manifesto, Giuliana Sgrena wrote, "Our car was driving slowly," and "the Americans fired without motive."
About 15 minutes after I pointed out that Sgrena's Il Manifesto article said no such thing, CNN quietly removed the fabricated quote and replaced it with this:
In an article published Sunday in her communist newspaper, Il Manifesto, Sgrena also described a "rain of fire and bullets" in the incident.
CNN neither mentioned the change nor provided an explanation as to how the erroneous quote appeared in the article in the first place.
I thought that was the end of it, but this morning I learned that the fabricated quote is back! Bob K., the reader who brought this matter to my attention yesterday, points to this article, published yesterday at 3:32 pm EST. The article reads in part:
CNN's Rome Bureau Chief Alessio Vinci said that in various interviews Sgrena disputed the U.S. account that the car was driving fast and warning shots were fired.
She wrote in her paper that "our car was driving slowly" and that "the Americans fired without motive."
Oops!
We know the quotes didn't come from Sgrena's Il Manifesto article, despite CNN's repeated assertions.
So where do the quotes come from? According to this article, Sgrena's driver that said he was driving slowly:
According to Italy's leading daily Corriere della Sera, the driver, an unidentified Italian agent, said: "We were driving slowly, about 40-50 km/h (25-30 mph)."
Maybe CNN has simply gotten Sgrena confused with her driver. If so, it's not a hanging offense, but I don't think it's too much to expect CNN to note its error and stop repeating it.
Back in the '90's I believe, an A-6 was flying around and goofing off and they went low into a valley where the gondola was and they sliced the cable with their tail. Didn't know what they did until they got back. There was a lot of hell over that one.
"Are you suggesting that the round that killed him might not have been from a US military weapon? Oh, my..."
The earliest reports, which may have been the most accurate, were that the agent was hit by one round to the temple, "and died instantly."
Hardly sounds like a "hail of bullets," much less a wound from a .50 cal round.
I too want very much to hear what the surviving agents in the car would have to say. I belive nothing from this idiot "journalist"
My cynical mind tells me that surviving agents will say what they are told to say...
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