Italian Reporter: U.S. Troops are War Criminals

NewsMax.com ^ | March 6, 2005 | Carl Limbacher

[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.

[cripplecreek]

Once again I have one question for her.


Who rescued her from the bloodthirsty Americans who tried to kill her?

[Jaysun]

Okay, you win Senor Slovenly, we're cowboys. So what?

[Doctor Raoul]

"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.

And she knows this because?

Bet Zarqawi has pinned her back against a bedsheet.

[IAF ThunderPilot]

Also on the regular news:

Europian Union: Israel Defense Forces' troops are war criminals and Zionism = Racism.

US Army, welcome to the IDF :)

[SandRat]

You were saying in the other thread? Out the whore's own mouth.........

[darkwing104]

This whole story smells. I beginning to doubt she was ever kidnapped.

[Doctor Raoul]

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.

They denied her freedom and threatened to kill her. She's one sick pup.

[King Prout]

"I was never treated badly," Sgrena told her colleagues at Il Manifesto...

yeah, that tends to be the way of it when you engineer your own "abduction" and "captivity"

[Wild Irish Rogue]

She sounds like she's auditioning for the Eason Jordan chair at CNN.

[bikepacker67]

Parte di Merda

[darkwing104]

I beginning to doubt she was ever kidnapped.

I am beginning to doubt

[silent_jonny]

This whole story stinks. I don't believe anything this commie b*tch says. I don't even believe she was "kidnapped".

[Ramonan]

More proof that this B-----'s "Shooting" was a "set-up".

Who the Hell let her in, anyway?

[silent_jonny]

Ditto!

[DoughtyOne]

Sgrena praised her terrorist captors for treating her humanely.

This is one world class sicko.

[McGavin999]

If she wasn't treated badly, why was she begging for release?

[Steel Wolf]

Who rescued her from the bloodthirsty Americans who tried to kill her?

Perhaps the troops at the checkpoint had a change of heart, and bravely decided to ignore the criminal 'assassinate all Commie Italian journalists' orders that Donald Rumsfeld personally sent them.

[Bommer]

Sorry but I'm rather disgusted over this whole shooting. Disgusted tehy didn't use larger millimeter rounds and more of them.

[Wormwood]

Yeah, I've got to say that I any synpathy I may have had for this annoying bint has evaporated.

Shut up already, comrade. Just be happy your empty head wasn't sawed off.

[traderrob6]

This women has an agenda a mile long, personally I wouldn't put anything past her. OpiniPundit

[Gritty]

I'm beginning to think this entire episode maybe wasn't just an "accident".

Maybe, unfortunately, our guys simply "missed"?

[mondonico]

Shut up or we'll shoot you again.

[Condi4Prez]

AS ITALIAN I'M FEELING SO EMBARASSED FOR ALL THE BULLSHIT SHE'S SAYIN...I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT HERE IN ITALY, NO ONE CARES ABOUT WHAT SHE SAYS...BUT IT WOULD BE A LIE...MANY ITALIANS BELIEVE HER, BUT THANK GOD THERE ARE SOME OF US WHO ARE SMART ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND THAT SHE'S JUST A COMMIE...

[doug from upland]

They should have whacked off her head instead of Nick Berg's, despite Berg's father.

[montag813]

forced another "to separate faeces from urine, using her own hands

anyone who has toddlers knows this is impossible, and yet another lie from this vermin commie.

[woofie]

If our soldiers do not already have a video tape of all things military (ie the checkpoint) I hope they will get it.

[Soul Seeker]

Hey, you don't have to be embarrassed. You're not responsible for what this....woman....is saying.

The American public isn't going to fall for this. My main concern is protecting our troops from this communist's lies. I'm also of hope Berlusconi survives the media assault. It's clear the intention is to destroy the coalition/Berlusconi for his support and continue the myth our soldiers are assassins.

I am sorry for the driver's death, but I'm suspicious of this one's "kidnapping".

[injin]

shoulda used a Vulcan...

[cripplecreek]

If you want to help you should start asking your countrymen why she is still alive when our soldiers could have easily killed her and told any story they wanted to tell.

[spinestein]

["I was never treated badly," Sgrena told her colleagues at Il Manifesto upon her arrival in Rome]


Perhaps you'd like it back in your cell, Your Highness.

[Bahbah]

US Army, welcome to the IDF

Both groups are then in very good company ;)

[Ramonan]

No one blames Italy, Italians, or anything like that.
This woman is a LIBERAL-Communist-Socialist. There is no redeeming Social Value to a commie-Lib.

[Bahbah]

If she wasn't treated badly, why was she begging for release?

All part of the show.

[dinok]

She is an anti-American leftist writing for a communist papper. They see American conspiracies in everything.

Saddly, no one from our government is refuting her version so its spreading all over Europe. Nice going State Department and White house.

An unanswered accusation is accepted by the public if not refuted quickly and forcefully.

[ApesForEvolution]

What a Communist beotch phony.

I don't believe a word out of her mouth...I better stop now before I say something about this incident that I could possibly regret.

[ApesForEvolution]

None.

[Dallas59]

Screw her and the people like her. Maybe she just needs to blow herself up....in the middle of her "newspaper" office.

[hershey]

I have a second question for her: if her Iraqi captors were so swell, how come she was kidnapped and some fool in the Italian govt. had to pony up approx. $1 million to get her released? These don't sound like friends.

[madison10]

Ms. Reporter: Next time maybe we shouldn't put our people at risk as they try to save your ungrateful hide. (shouldn't say that now, should I?)

[Dallas59]

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[ac-rep]

Soldiers and Marines are getting killed everyday yet this story makes international news? Iam a soldier stationed in Bayji, Iraq and I can say with confidence that the consequences of running a military check point or interfering with a convoy are widely known .Mistakes are made sometimes but this is the atmosphere created by the insurgents, not us.

[AmericanInTokyo]

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

My, what a CONVENIENT & CLEVER system!

[calex59]

There was another thread earlier that pointed out that she has been caught in lies in her story about the shooting. For instance she said in her first report that there was a bright light and then they were fired on. The next time they asked her she said there was no light. Just your average lying communist!

[Skywarner]

""I was never treated badly," Sgrena told her colleagues at Il Manifesto upon her arrival in Rome.

Of course she wasn't treated badly... Once her "captors" realized that Sgrena was actually a Lib/Socialist/Communist reporter, they probably wined and dined her.

Her past "journalistic" writings actually make Howard Dean look like a conservative. She is a piece of work, that's for sure...

[Desron13]

"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."

Oh my, a negative picture of the US dished up by a self avowed communist. I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!

[calex59]

Hey there is a big difference between this woman and the brave Italian who told the terrorists to watch how a man dies! God rest his soul.

[AmericanInTokyo]

1965: SHOOT A COMMUNIST, GET AN AWARD

2005: SHOOT A COMMUNIST, OFFER TO PROVIDE A "FULL INVESTIGATION" AND ISSUE A U.S. AMBASSADORIAL APOLOGY