[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: [usgp-dx] More Doubts Raised about That Killing of Italian Security Agent

[Paul Etxeberri]

>
>Hi, This report raises very serious questions about the killing of that
>Italian security agent and the wounding of that Italian woman journalist.
>Very serious questions.  This account appeared in the Monday, March 28
>edition of The Progressive Review.  Peace.  Richard Walton, RI.
>
>NEW DOUBTS ABOUT U.S. ATTACK ON GIULIANA SGRENA
>http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/25/1516242
>
>NAOMI KLEIN ON DEMOCRACY NOW: One of the things that we keep hearing is
>that she was fired on on the road to the airport, which is a notoriously
>dangerous road. In fact, it's often described as the most dangerous road
>in the world. So this is treated as a fairly common and understandable
>incident that there would be a shooting like this on that road. And I was
>on that road myself, and it is a really treacherous place with explosions
>going off all the time and a lot of checkpoints.
>
>What Giuliana told me that I had not realized before is that she wasn't on
>that road at all. She was on a completely different road that I actually
>didn't know existed. It's a secured road that you can only enter through
>the Green Zone and is reserved exclusively for ambassadors and top
>military officials. So, when Calipari, the Italian security intelligence
>officer, released her from captivity, they drove directly to the Green
>Zone, went through the elaborate checkpoint process which everyone must go
>through to enter the Green Zone, which involves checking in obviously with
>U.S. forces, and then they drove onto this secured road.
>
>And the other thing that Giuliana told me that she's quite frustrated
>about is the description of the vehicle that fired on her as being part of
>a checkpoint. She says it wasn't a checkpoint at all. It was simply a tank
>that was parked on the side of the road that opened fire on them. There
>was no process of trying to stop the car, she said, or any signals. From
>her perspective, they were just -- it was just opening fire by a tank.
>
>The other thing she told me that was surprising to me was that they were
>fired on from behind. Because I think part of what we're hearing is that
>the U.S. soldiers opened fire on their car, because they didn't know who
>they were, and they were afraid. It was self-defense, they were afraid.
>The fear, of course, is that their car might blow up or that they might
>come under attack themselves.
>
>And what Giuliana Sgrena really stressed with me was that she -- the
>bullet that injured her so badly and that killed Calipari, came from
>behind, entered the back seat of the car. And the only person who was not
>severely injured in the car was the driver, and she said that this is
>because the shots weren't coming from the front or even from the side.
>They were coming from behind, i.e. they were driving away. So, the idea
>that this was an act of self-defense, I think becomes much more
>questionable. And that detail may explain why there's some reticence to
>give up the vehicle for inspection. Because if indeed the majority of the
>gunfire is coming from behind, then clearly, they were firing from -- they
>were firing at a car that was driving away from them.
>
>
>	"The only way out of our crisis (terrorism) is to reduce the 
>anger of the
>most rational, thus also reducing the constituency of the least rational."
>  Sam Smith.
>
>	"When they come for the innocent without crossing over
>your body, cursed be your religion and your life."  Anon.  But often
>quoted by Dorothy Day.
>--
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>"Richard Walton" <richard at soup.org>
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Paul Etxeberri

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