Don't worry i am sure the right wing brigade on Guppshup will come up with another set of excuses for the GI Joes even when tens of thousands of civillians have been killed in iraq and the torture and abuse they committing on a daily basis.
this story is highlighted because the Italian Government made issue of it for obvious reasons, can you imagine the ordinary iraqi civillians who is being killed without rest of world even realising you can only imagine the true horror inflicted on iraqi population.
Rome: The Italian journalist wounded by American troops in Iraq after her release by insurgents rejected the US military’s account of the shooting and declined to rule out the possibility she was deliberately targeted.
The White House said it was a “horrific accident” and promised a full investigation.
I know it’s not as fun as coming up with conspiracy theories but the truth often is not.
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Roadblock death: Italy didn’t alert U.S. troops
A U.S. military source said yesterday that the “main contributing factor” in the shooting death of Italian agent Nicola Calipari at an American roadblock in Baghdad, Iraq, was Italy’s failure to inform U.S. soldiers that it would be bringing a newly released Italian hostage along the road to the airport.
Meanwhile, the hostage, journalist Giuliana Sgrena, who was injured in the Friday-night shooting, said she could not rule out that the Americans intentionally shot at her. She gave no evidence, however.
An Italian Cabinet member implied such suspicions were “nonsense.”
According to the military source, who said he spoke on condition of anonymity because the incident is under investigation, U.S. soldiers had established an impromptu evening checkpoint at the entrance to the road to the airport about 90 minutes earlier and had stopped other vehicles. They knew a high-level U.S. Embassy official would be moving to the airport on that road, and their aim was to support that movement, he said.
But no specific coordination occurred between those involved in Sgrena’s rescue and the military unit responsible for the checkpoint, according to the source.
The absence of advance communication between the Italians and the U.S. soldiers at the checkpoint appears to have put the occupants of the car in grave jeopardy, given what many U.S. officials describe as the military’s standard practice of firing at onrushing cars from their checkpoints in Iraq.
“In my view, the main contributing factor was a lack of prior coordination with the ground unit,” the source said. “If requested, we would have resourced and supported this mission very differently.”
Soldiers at the checkpoint have told U.S. military officers that they flashed lights, used hand signals and fired warning shots in an effort to stop the car, which they believed was traveling at more than 50 mph, a typical speed for that road.
*Calipari had made “all the necessary contacts” with US authorities in Baghdad, the foreign minister said. *
several differences in accounts too.. the Italians recall the car to have been travelling around 20 mph and they had passed the areas with all the checkposts.. their cell phones were jammed and communications cutoff.. Also their bullet ridden car has now vanished into thin air.. the military won’t produce it for proof of what weapons were used and how many times..
if anyone wants to propagate a conspiracy theory that the military didn’t know they were coming then there still are some of those leftover iraqi nukes..