Well, the moment we have all been waiting for with bated breath is here. The Italians have released their “findings” of the Sgrena incident:
May 2 (Bloomberg) — The inexperience of U.S. troops and a lack of signals at a makeshift roadblock in Baghdad contributed to the shooting death of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq, a report by Italian military and diplomatic officials said.
The officials, who helped investigate the March 4 shooting of Nicola Calipari, disputed U.S. findings that the car in which he was riding was traveling at 100 kilometers an hour and failed to heed warning shots and a spotlight on the car. Calipari, 51, was headed to the Baghdad airport with freed hostage Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian journalist wounded in the shooting.
“The level of stress and inexperience may have led these soldiers to react in an instinctive way with little control,” said the report posted on the Web site of Italy’s intelligence agency. The driver “was not in a hurry to reach the airport. The road was wet and he was heading into a curved ramp that was partially obstructed and that led to a 90 degree curve.”
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The Italian report said it is possible the American command didn’t know the exact movements of Calipari’s car before the shooting, though it knew he was on a mission to try to free a hostage and was due to return to the airport that night.
What a load of bullshit. But at least they state at the end that maybe, just maybe the Italians didn’t coordinate with the US too well.
We all know this is a face saving report. They couldn’t very well come out with a report that states basically the same thing as the US version since they WANT to believe that we screwed up, not the hero who didn’t let anyone know they were there nor Berlusconi who agreed to pay a ransom and fund continued terrorist operations against our troops.
This report doesn’t even provide any evidence of their findings. How did they come to the conclusion that her car wasn’t going 100 kilometers? Based on the communists word? Give me a break.
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