If you got all your Iraq news from TV, you may have missed this story, the TV was too busy reporting on the obviously made-up Jessica Lynch nonsense to say anything about this story, which had the bad luck to be something that actually happened, which is the kiss of death on TV news.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/russ-a10.shtml
Five Russian diplomats were injured April 6 as they attempted to leave Baghdad, when their convoy was fired on by American forces west of the Iraqi capital. The wounded included Ambassador Vladimir Titorenko, who later told Moscow media that he was lucky to be alive.
The driver of the ambassador’s car was severely wounded in the abdomen and had to be taken to an Iraqi hospital in Feluja, 35 miles west of Baghdad, for emergency surgery. Titorenko said that US military vehicles were only 40 yards away when they opened fire, suggesting the shooting was deliberate.
Speaking on Channel One state television Monday, Titorenko held up an American bullet found in the seat of the car, saying, “This bullet was meant for the ambassador. If it hadn’t been for this thing”—indicating a barrier inside the car—“the bullet would have hit me right in the head.”
Some 23 Russian embassy personnel and journalists were in an eight-car convoy that left the Iraqi capital early Sunday, hoping to make the 250-mile drive across the western desert to Syria. They filed detailed plans with the US military, supplying them with information on the route to be taken, and even the license plate numbers of the cars, to forestall any attack.
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