Posted on 04/29/2005 3:30:21 PM PDT by finnman69
A US satellite reportedly recorded a checkpoint shooting in Iraq last month, enabling investigators to reconstruct how fast a car carrying a top Italian intelligence official and a freed hostage was traveling when US troops opened fire.
The report, which aired Thursday on CBS News, said US investigators concluded from the recording that the car was traveling at a speed of more than 60 miles (96 km) per hour.
Giuliana Sgrena has said the car was traveling at a normal speed of about 30 miles an hour when the soldiers opened fired, wounding her and killing Nicola Calipari, the Italian agent who had just secured her release from a month's captivity.
US soldiers said at the time of the March 4 incident that the car approached at a high rate of speed and that they fired only after it failed to respond to hand signals, flashing bright lights and warning shots.
The conflicting accounts were among a number of differences that have prevented US and Italian authorities from reaching agreement on what happened.
CBS, citing Pentagon officials, said the satellite recording enabled investigators to reconstruct the event without having to rely on the eyewitness accounts.
It said the soldiers manning the checkpoint first spotted the Italian car when it was 137 yards (meters) away. By the time they opened fire and brought the car to a halt, it was 46 yards (meters) away. CBS said that happened in less than three seconds, which meant the car had to be going over 60 miles an hour.
CBS said Italian investigators refused to accept that the Americans were justified in shooting so quickly, arguing among other things that the checkpoint was not properly marked.
Real time satellite imagery recorded the scene.
I believe our troops, but this seems a little crazy to offer as proof.
Who knows though, anything is possible.
but we already knew that without the film.....
Giuliana Sgrena is a dirty, filthy, lying, terrorist-sympathizing, communist.
So what your're saying is that the big bad American soldiers followed protocol. Gee...who would've thunk it. Imagine that.
Sgrena lied. Imagine that.
"arguing among other things that the checkpoint was not properly marked."
Since she lied about everything else, why would she tell the truth about that?
Once a lying communist POS, always a lying communist POS.
No way, the U.S. military shot them for the fun of it. /Italian-communist-barf-crap off
I just spent 6 years in Italy, Aviano, and after having driven in Italy I don’t think there is an Italian in Italy that knows the difference between 100 mph and 30 mph. they all drive like He!!.
I really wish I could believe CBS on this. However, with their track record....
That info has been virtually open public knowledge since Pollard sold it to the Israelis and they sold it to the Soviets.
Your concept is correct, but the google maps are substandard, i.e., not near as close-up as nor as accurate as has already been available on the web for a long time.
I don't recall the site(s), but do a search for satellite imagery and you can easily find images superior to google's (and free) of any address elsewhere. I have done it numerous times.
I'm sure that if an American strike team had found this biotch, kicked in the door to rescue her, she would have thrown herself in front of her terrorist captors.
and this story will be burried AND the Euromedia will say this is all special effects faked by the US army.
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