Guilty or innocent that Knox may have been, the angry reaction of the Italians was just old-fashioned anti-Americanism.
Spot on.
You have made the only reasoned statement in this thread! Even the Italians have an appeals process which worked according to all of the legal people on the tube today. You can wail all you want about whether she did it or not; at the end of the day the evidence did not support a conviction.