Oh ya, this one is rich...
A communist, America-hating journalist that was captured by Iraqi terrorists and eventually freed after her country pays the million-dollars-ransom...whose car is speeding down a dark, dangerous road (can't blame them for that), but whose driver fails to respond to warnings...numerous warnings...so the journalist is now claiming the U.S. soldiers had her car 'targeted'...
Only problem is...the Italians forgot one minor detail when they didn't notify the forces that be that they were going to be running this bee-otch to the airport...
Give me a break!
We know what this is!
The elections were successful in Iraq...Europe is now forced to make small concessions - can't be over-zealous in their recognition that President Bush was right...that the Iraqi people...and the Afghan people...and the Jordanian people...WANT FREEDOM!
The Italians screwed up...it is sad that someone died, but this is war...plain and simple...
"Something that car did caused the soldiers to fire," said the official, who asked not to be named.
The shooting occurred at night at a checkpoint on a notoriously dangerous road that links Baghdad to the international airport....
Robert Maginnis, a retired Army officer and military analyst, said Rome should have done a better job coordinating Miss Sgrena's exit once the Italians negotiated her release.
"It seems to me that the Italian secret service considers this a James Bond movie in Baghdad," Mr. Maginnis said. "They're driving around at night picking up a journalist who has been kidnapped and pretending they can get through a phalanx of checkpoints along the deadliest road in all of Iraq without being detected, much less shot up."
The Army's 3rd Infantry Division, which last week resumed command of Baghdad operations after participating in the 2003 invasion, said the soldiers had warned the approaching car repeatedly before opening fire.
According to the division, the patrol attempted to warn the driver to stop by hand and arm signals, flashing white lights, and firing warning shots in front of the car."
....'nuff said...
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