The thing that pisses me off about the Guiliana Sgrena shooting debacle

is that you KNOW this stuff happens to Iraqis on an hourly basis and the news never sees the light of day. It wasn't intentional: it was just goddamn incompetence, combined with shoot first ask questions later, combined with the philosophy that it's better to kill an Iraqi than expose Americans to any risk whatsoever...</rant>

:grr::grr::grr:

I'm not sure about it being unintentional.

But assuming it was, I agree. And Iraqis are much worse off. No protection whatsoever, no bodyguards, no body armor, no vehicle armor. Just flesh getting ripped apart, by the dozens every day, by insurgents and by U.S. troops.

Not to mention more mundane abuse, rape, theft, etc. :mad:

http://www.ilmanifesto.it/pag/sgrena/en /

THE NATION CALLS FOR RELEASE OF GIULIANA SGRENA

Florence and the others
GIULIANA SGRENA
il manifesto 14 January 2005

Ten thousand Iraqis in US and British prisons
GIULIANA SGRENA
il manifesto 29 December 2004

Two thousand victims in Fallujah
Giuliana Sgrena, Iraq
il manifesto 26 November 2004

Napalm Raid on Falluja?
GIULIANA SGRENA
il manifesto 23 November 2004

The death throes of Fallujah
Giuliana Sgrena
ilmanifesto 13 November 2004

“Stop the massacre”
GIULIANA SGRENA
il manifesto 12 November 2004

Bombs and tanks, hell breaks in Falluja
GIULIANA SGRENA
il manifesto 09 November 2004

Interview with an Iraki woman tortured at Abu Graib.
Giuliana Sgrena, our correspondent in Baghdad
il manifesto 01 July 2004

“Imminent attack” against Falluja
GIULIANA SGRENA
il manifesto 06 November 2004

Flight from a Falluja massacred by bombs
GIULIANA SGRENA
il manifestp 21 October 2004

UN: US crimes in Iraq
GIULIANA SGRENA
il manifesto 05 June 2004


Now ask your self something. Why would the Iraqis who want the US out of Iraq want this woman kidnapped or killed? I smell a Negroponte type "El Salvador" option in action here. This is his MO.

Don

(Pulled from the DU thread)

that list is pretty damning, I hafta admit.

that it was intentional. I don't believe the admin would risk alienating the Italian government by killing her (unless, of course, she had something REALLY juicy). We will find out.

they had to silence her (now who gave the order)...and let's investigate all of her articles and see if shrub and rumsfeld should be in jail.

be investigated thoroughly and the truth will seep out. The journalist's husband is saying that they were fired on after they'd passed the checkpoint.

While American media might think it is ok to silence foreign journalists, those in the free world don't.

A half mile from the point they should have a billboard with an American flag that says "Checkpoint ahead. Stop or we will shoot you" in Arabic, Italian and a half dozen other languages. It should be lit up at night and be reflective.

If they had had this in January, the family of seven Iraqis would not have been fired on and the parents killed.

What is wrong with these people running this war? It is gross incompetence all around. Or they just don't give a shit how many innocents and heroes they kill.