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.
Once again I have one question for her.
Who rescued her from the bloodthirsty Americans who tried to kill her?
Okay, you win Senor Slovenly, we're cowboys. So what?
And she knows this because?
Bet Zarqawi has pinned her back against a bedsheet.
Also on the regular news:
Europian Union: Israel Defense Forces' troops are war criminals and Zionism = Racism.
US Army, welcome to the IDF :)
You were saying in the other thread? Out the whore's own mouth.........
"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.
yeah, that tends to be the way of it when you engineer your own "abduction" and "captivity"
She sounds like she's auditioning for the Eason Jordan chair at CNN.
Parte di Merda
I am beginning to doubt
More proof that this B-----'s "Shooting" was a "set-up".
Who the Hell let her in, anyway?
Ditto!
Sgrena praised her terrorist captors for treating her humanely.
This is one world class sicko.
If she wasn't treated badly, why was she begging for release?
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.
Sorry but I'm rather disgusted over this whole shooting. Disgusted tehy didn't use larger millimeter rounds and more of them.
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