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LewWaters
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 Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 7:45 am Post subject: General Refutes Iraq Shooting Info |
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We've all heard the "story" from the Italian Commnist Journalist was wounded in the shoulder last week, but the top General in Iraq seems to see it differently.
| Quote: | General Refutes Iraq Shooting Info
Associated Press
March 9, 2005
WASHINGTON - The top U.S. general in Iraq said Tuesday he has no indication that Italian officials gave advance notice of the route of a vehicle U.S. soldiers fired on last Friday, killing an Italian intelligence officer and wounding a rescued Italian journalist.
"I personally do not have any indication of that, even on a preliminary basis," Army Gen. George Casey told reporters at the Pentagon. He stressed that another officer, Brig. Gen. Peter Vangjel, is heading the investigation, which is expected to be carried out jointly with Italian officials.
Offering his assessment of the insurgency in Iraq, Casey said the level of violence has dropped significantly since the Jan. 30 elections, although he cautioned that the insurgency tends to "ebb and flow." |
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Military.com Article
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Powerlineblog – 3/8/05: “IT'S RAINING BULLETS...SORT OF”
Finally we have a photo of the car that Giuliana Sgrena was riding in when it was shot at by American soldiers at a checkpoint between Baghdad and the Baghdad airport…… ARTICLE
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http://www.swiftvets.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18601&start=30&sid=2752401201d7b3822897e4ccf1b08c78
That photo is up on Kate's post but doesn't seem to be
the vehicle. Washington Times article:
| Quote: | ......The soldiers did not know that Miss Sgrena and Italian agents were headed in their direction on the way to the airport for a flight back to Italy.
An internal Pentagon information memo states, "This is war. About 500 American service members have been killed by hostile fire while operating on Iraqi streets and highways. The journalist was driving in pitch-dark and at a high speed and failed, according to the first reports, to respond to numerous warnings. Besides, there is no indication that the Italian security forces made prior arrangements to facilitate the transition to the airport."
The left-leaning Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported yesterday that Mr. Calipari decided not to use available escort protection from the elite commandos who protect Italy's Baghdad embassy.
Instead, he rented an inconspicuous pickup truck to recover Miss Sgrena, wrote La Repubblica's top investigative reporter, Giuseppe D'Avanzo.
"In Iraq, the United States makes the rules and the Italian ally also must respect them. If it wants to break them, it must do so with a double game and some crafty tricks," Mr. D'Avanzo wrote.
Italian magistrates have opened an inquiry into the killing and are arranging for the truck to be flown to Italy for examination by ballistic experts, judicial sources said. The magistrates also have obtained from the U.S. military the cellular phone that Mr. Calipari was carrying when he was shot.
Analysis of calls logged on the cellular phone might allow investigators to determine the speed at which the vehicle was traveling when U.S. troops opened fire on it, the sources say. |
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