AP Europe: "Story of Italian Hostage's Release Unclear"

_ Officials said Sgrena was with her rescuers by 8:20 p.m., although the location of the purported handover is unclear. Neither Berlusconi, in a Friday news conference, nor Sgrena, in a Saturday interview with Italian state television, gave details on how or where she was released. By 8:55 p.m., according to a statement from the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division, "U.S. soldiers killed one civilian and wounded two others when their vehicle traveling at high speeds refused to stop at a check point."

_ Sgrena's boyfriend, Pier Scolari, said she told him that the car wasn't speeding. Sgrena subsequently told interviewers the car was traveling at "regular speed."

_ The U.S. military said the Americans used "hand and arm signals, flashing white lights, and firing warning shots" to try to get the car to stop. But in an interview with Italian La 7 TV, Sgrena said "there was no bright light, no signal, and at a certain point, from one side, a firestorm erupted."

_ When The Associated Press in Baghdad asked the U.S. military to see the vehicle on Saturday, the military said it didn't know where it was.

Unanswered questions......

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050306/ap_on_re_eu/italy_iraq_hostage_reconstruction

won't be the only ones investigating. The rest of the world knows better than to let that happen.

???????

Great security! (as in Gad Zooks!)

"Yes, we blasted the thing. Yes, we knew we killed someone who was innocent. Yes, we knew we almost killed a recently released hostage. And yes, we don't know what happened to that car."

Is that what they're telling us?

Alice, which way back to the looking glass?

They don't know where the vehicle is....yeah right.

Thanks for the update. The world will be following this one I am sure...

"Eason Jordan asserted that he knew of 12 journalists who had not only been killed by US troops in Iraq, but they had in fact been targeted."

http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050211BlogExposureGetsCNNNewsExecFired.html

That we cannot even be honest and 'fess up to a terrible mistake.



or.... is there some reason the Italians were targeted (paying ransom, dealing with the enemy to save their own?)???

What are we coming to?