"US attack against Italians in Baghdad was deliberate: companion"

DemoTex

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Sat Mar-05-05 12:06 PM
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"US attack against Italians in Baghdad was deliberate: companion"

Turkish Press

The companion of freed Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena on Saturday leveled serious accusations at US troops who fired at her convoy as it was nearing Baghdad airport, saying the shooting had been deliberate.

"The Americans and Italians knew about (her) car coming," Pier Scolari said on leaving Rome's Celio military hospital where Sgrena is to undergo surgery following her return home.

"They were 700 meters (yards) from the airport, which means that they had passed all checkpoints."

The shooting late Friday was witnessed by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's office which was on the phone with one of the secret service agents, said Scolari. "Then the US military silenced the cellphones," he charged. (More ..)

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=38029

Anybody know anything about Turkishpress.com?

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GOPBasher

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Sat Mar-05-05 12:15 PM
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1. If this is true, all I can say is,

:puke:

I don't know if this is a reliable source, but at this point, does anyone think something like this wouldn't happen?

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Jazzgirl

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Sat Mar-05-05 12:20 PM
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2. I thought it was probably done on purpose as well.

I have never heard anything negative about Turkish Press but can't speak for it. It makes perfect sense in light of the fact so many reporters have been killed by American forces in Iraq. Too many in fact.

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cthrumatrix

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Sat Mar-05-05 12:22 PM
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3. the US has reached a point of no return --- desperation for propaganda

control when it come to thier endless war for oil and maintianing the US dollar as the petro dollar of choice

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Wright Patman

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Sat Mar-05-05 12:23 PM
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4. Support the troops

Edited on Sat Mar-05-05 12:23 PM by Wright Patman

eom

Better add this. < /sarcasm>

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Beam Me Up

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Sat Mar-05-05 12:33 PM
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6. Exactly

America right or wrong. Divine right of * (looks like an ass hole to me). Wave our little flags and look happy as pappy and son steal us blind while our military (sons and daughters) are turned into murderers, irradiated and killed. ETC.

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vpigrad

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Sat Mar-05-05 12:25 PM
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5. Just another day at the firing range...

for the thugs in green.

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DemoTex

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Sat Mar-05-05 03:05 PM
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7. As KO would say, this is the headline we will be watching this week.

Edited on Sat Mar-05-05 03:06 PM by DemoTex

Giuliana Sgrena's journalism has hit a raw nerve with the Bu$h regime:

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

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1640443

(Lifted from Don's DU thread)

Napalm Raid on Falluja?
UN: US crimes in Iraq
�Stop the massacre�

Spin this you Bu$h Bastards.

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