Journalist shooting stirs Italian anger

ABCNews ^ | 5 March 2005 | Angela Doland

[Racehorse]

The Italians certainly deserve a full and complete explanation. But, the communists and protesters deserve spit, IMHO.

[don-o]

The truth will come out.

Our troops do not take pot shots.

[RandallFlagg]

They should be angry at the driver for provoking our troops into opening up on the vehicle in the first place.

[Brian328i]

Something happened to cause the soldiers to open fire, so far what do we know besides they had failed to provide knowledge to the soldiers of her passing through, they were in an unmarked car speeding towards the checkpoint and failed to yield when they were warned.

[traderrob6]

This is all not as it appears OpiniPundit

[BykrBayb]

She wasn't worth it.

[Viking2002]

Amen. You don't ignore warning shots and go barreling headlong into an American security checkpoint in the middle of Baghdad, unless you want to get air-conditioned by some badass boys with big guns.

[BlackRain]

ALERT

The DU crowd and the Kos crowd are now into this the "US military did not want this Communist-Anti-War reporter to leave Iraq Alive" conspiracy theory.

[Racehorse]

This is all not as it appears OpiniPundit

OpinPundit: "Lets take a closer look at alleged hostage Sgrena Giuliana her quotes and politics."

Yep.  Certainly . . . curiously provocative, she is.

 

[verity]

What was the Italian "spook" who was killed doing there in the first place?

[marron]

What was the Italian "spook" who was killed doing there in the first place?

Negotiating her release.

In any case, the Italians have nearly 3000 troops there, so they are bound to have some intel guys there.

But, they would be familiar with the airport road, and the checkpoints, and used to working with American soldiers, which makes what happened very strange.

[Wormwood]

Didn't someone remark that maybe this kidnapping was a setup by her for publicity?

If so, I'd say it worked. Here's hoping she enjoys it.

[verity]

I saw "somewhere" where this spook was a rather senior operator. Oh, well. I guess the Italics do it differently.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Will she get a Purple Heart for her shrapnel wound? Maybe she and Kerry can swap war stories.

[Lurking2Long]

The "Italics"...the "ITALICS"...please tell me you meant to type that..?

[alloysteel]

And it was with macho Italian bravado that the driver of that vehicle was approaching the US checkpoint at high speed, and showed no evidence of slowing down. At this point, none of the checkpoint soldiers had any idea whether the vehicle was maybe loaded with 500 pounds of TNT, and they took precautionary steps to deter its closer approach. Somebody died and others suffered serious wounds, but playing chicken with military checkpoints is counterproductive.

Iraq is still a very dangerous place, and reckons to remain so for some time to come.

[traderrob6]

remember these two

[verity]

Of course.

You have been around long to remember the old days when the failure of one poster to close the Italics font would carry that font through subsequent posts until someone closed it. Those people would then announce "Italians off."

I simply reversed it. lol