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Originally Posted by Mojiteaux
You don't only have to read foreign press, now the Boston Globe also mentions the Sgrena version:
In comments reported by the news agency ANSA, Sgrena told investigating magistrates in Rome that the car was not traveling fast and that there was no real checkpoint.
''The firing was not justified by the speed of our car," she was quoted as saying. She added only that it was traveling at a ''regular" speed.
''It wasn't a checkpoint, but a patrol which shot as soon as it had lit us up with a spotlight," she said. ''We had no idea where the shots were coming from."
Sgrena, 56, arrived in Rome yesterday and seemed to be in pain as she was helped off a government plane. Sgrena was clutching a plaid blanket and was attached to a drip.
Sgrena was taken by ambulance to a military hospital in Rome, a day after undergoing surgery at a US military hospital in Iraq to remove shrapnel from her shoulder. Doctors examined her and said late yesterday that another operation was not needed.
''We thought the danger was over after my release to the Italians, but all of a sudden there was this shoot-out; we were hit by a barrage of bullets," she told RAI television by telephone.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/eur...s_us_shooting/ |
Its he said she said then at this point.
I heard the commander say they first blinked the floodlights at the vehicle to make it slow down , then when it didnt slow down they fired several rounds into the air above the vehicle, then they targeted the vehicle. Thats 3 sepearte steps to get them to slow down.
Heres what most likely happened..
You have a bunch of guys sitting at checkpoints who feel like sitting ducks. Suicide bombers ramming them daily.
Now you have a car with italian secret service agents and a recently freed hostage , who are already beyond a first set of checkpoints and most likely assume the checkpoints know they are coming.
So they come across another checkpoint and are eager to get thru, they see the lights but arent sure what to do, then they see shots being fired and perhaps assumed there is someone chasing them behind them and speed up to get out of the line of fire, at this point the army dudes see the car speed up and assume it a suicide bomber..
As someone already pointed out THERES NO REASON TO KILL HER, and if there was , i highly doubt she would be sitting alive in a u.s. military hospital.
She is pissed off she got shot as she should be , but its nobody's fault ( except perhaps her driver )