These trigger happy KleanKut types are real fuckin geniuses

[ColdBlooded]

Freed Journalist Fired on by U.S. Troops

ROME (AP) - A freed Italian hostage was injured and an Italian intelligence officer killed Friday after a U.S. armored vehicle fired on a car in which they were riding in Iraq, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said.

Berlusconi, an ally of the United States who has kept troops in Iraq despite public opposition at home, said he has asked the U.S. ambassador for an explanation.

"Given that the fire came from an American source I called in the American ambassador," Berlusconi told reporters. "I believe we must have an explanation for such a serious incident, for which someone must take the responsibility."

The shooting occurred Friday at a roadblock near the airport. Berlusconi confirmed that the former Italian hostage, journalist Giuliana Sgrena, was injured by shrapnel. She was taken to a U.S. military hospital by U.S. troops, where she had a minor operation on her left shoulder to remove a piece of shrapnel, he said.

Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said a shooting incident occurred as the Italian woman was being brought into U.S. military control at Camp Victory, the U.S. military base near Baghdad International Airport.

He offered no other details, including whether anyone was killed or who did the shooting.

This is a July 2004 file photo released by Il Manifesto in Rome of Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena. Sgrena who has been held captive in Iraq for a month, was released Friday, March 4, 2005 and then shot by the U.S. military.(AP Photo/Il Manifesto, Luisa Di Gaetano, HO, File)

 

[epoxy]

yeah this isnt good. wondering what caused them to be fired upon.

 

[ColdBlooded]

wondering what caused them to be fired upon.

trigger happy KleanKut types

..

 

[epoxy]

"At approximately 8:55 p.m. tonight, coalition forces assigned to the multinational force Iraq (news - web sites) fired on a vehicle that was approaching a coalition checkpoint in Baghdad at a high rate of speed," it said. "The recently freed Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena was an occupant in the vehicle and was apparently injured."

 

[TOKZTLI]

I wonder who the genius behind the wheel was, speeding directly at a military checkpoint. What is the Italian word for "Es-top"

 

[AGENT707]

I wonder who the genius behind the wheel was, speeding directly at a military checkpoint. What is the Italian word for "Es-top"

if u were in IRAQ would u be driving slow?!?!?!?!?!?!?

fuck no!!

 

[epoxy]

^^^^ up to a check point hell yes.

 

[2-0-Sixx]

Shit, I've been following up with her on the BBC since she got taken as a hostage and now the US shoots her?!? fuckin idiots.

 

[DubbC415]

lol..."trigger happy..." think about their jobs and where they are...theyre gonna be a little "trigger happy."

 

[epoxy]

a little thought: this lady has some shitty luck. damn

 

[JoMoDo]

www.democracynow.org

 

[DIONYSOS]

damn,hysteric fagz,thats why we are on war cause people are psychotic bitches.
like christians they allways think about there salvation and the apocalysis.

 

[TOKZTLI]

damn,hysteric fagz,thats why we are on war cause people are psychotic bitches.
like christians they allways think about there salvation and the apocalysis.

I thought we were at war because of muslim facsists trying to destroy the U.S.

 

[Formaldehyde Rx]

NO we are at war so trigger happy klean kut types can shoot at Italian bitches.

 

[DIONYSOS]

"the donkey talking about long ears ...

Citing Abu Ghraib, China rejects U.S. on rights
Washington has no business judging others, Beijing says


Beijing -- China accused the United States on Thursday of using double standards to judge human rights in other countries, adding to a growing list of nations that suggest the government that produced the Abu Ghraib prison abuses has no business commenting on what happens elsewhere.

Edward Cody, Washington Post

Friday, March 4, 2005

Beijing -- China accused the United States on Thursday of using double standards to judge human rights in other countries, adding to a growing list of nations that suggest the government that produced the Abu Ghraib prison abuses has no business commenting on what happens elsewhere.

"No country should exclude itself from the international human rights development process or view itself as the incarnation of human rights that can reign over other countries and give orders to the others," Prime Minister Wen Jiabao's Cabinet declared, three days after the State Department criticized China in its annual human rights report.

The sentiment it expressed -- that the Bush administration has compromised on human rights and has no standing to criticize others -- reflected similar views in other foreign capitals where governments were chastised for violating human rights. Although such chafing often follows the State Department's annual report, it has become more readily voiced since U.S. abuses of prisoners in Iraq and Guantanamo were publicized around the world.

"Unfortunately, it once again gives us reason to say that double standards are a characteristic of the American approach to such an important theme," the Russian Foreign Ministry declared after reviewing the report. "Characteristically off-screen is the ambiguous record of the United States itself."

Jose Luis Soberanas, president of Mexico's Human Rights Commission, cited U.S. treatment of Mexicans who enter the United States illegally, calling U.S. criticism of Mexico's record "the donkey talking about long ears ... because the United States violates human rights, especially those of our countrymen."

Amnesty International, the human rights organization, noted that the Bush administration had turned over prisoners arrested in the battle against terrorism to the same countries it cites in the report for torturing prisoners.

"The State Department's carefully compiled record of countries' abuses may perversely have been transformed into a Yellow Pages for the outsourcing of torture," said William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International

USA.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/03/04/MNGHFBK8VK1.DTL

Basically what this says is that the USA is acting like a spoiled bitch.

 

[epoxy]

^^^^post that shit in another thread.

back to the topic, i now have the opinion that the driver is a fuckin idiot. Scenario: If your speedin into a checkpoint because your worried about being attacked by insurgents, you need re-think the situation, they are not going to shoot at you there going to go after the armed soldiers at the checkpoint.

Its common knowledge that you are going to be shot at if you are speeding into a checkpoint. Unless you have a desire to 1. harm the soldiers, or 2. wish to kill yourself, slow the fuck down.

once again its a shame the driver put everyone in this situation.

 

[ColdBlooded]

epoxy, TOKZTLI, and DubbC415 since you’re buying I’ve got some land in Florida to sell you at a great price.

:cheeky:

Giuliana herself told Italian radio of the "rain of fire" on her car, which she said was not going particularly fast. And that the American attack was completely unjustified. And her security had alerted the whole chain of command, the Italian troops were awaiting them at the airport. And yet, they fired approximately 300 to 400 rounds into her convoy.

Giuliana Sgrena told Rai News 24 by telephone that "we thought the danger was over after my rescue."
"And instead, suddenly there was this shooting. We were hit by a spray of fire," she told the television network. "I was talking to Nicola ... when he leaned over me, probably to defend me, and then he slumped over. That was a truly terrible thing."

I also heard on the radio the road they were traveling on to the airport is known to be poorly protected by the Army and drivers frequently drive fast out of necessity to avoid insurgent attack.

 

[epoxy]

theres two sides to every story. Of course hers is going to be the shooting was unjustified, she just got shot at and had a intelegence officer die in her arms. On that note that was pretty noble of him, RIP to a hero.

The military is going to say sorry, but explain their resoning. "The U.S. military said the car Sgrena was riding in after her release was speeding as it approached a coalition checkpoint in western Baghdad on its way to the airport. Soldiers shot into the engine block only after trying to warn the driver to stop by "hand and arm signals, flashing white lights and firing warning shots," the military said."

Interesting though that she says that it wasnt a checkpoint but a patrol, and the Military says it was a checkpoint.

lol, and fuck florida they got hurricanes.

 

[1/2 On It]

Ive said this before in another thread concerning innocent civilians being shot at US military checkpoints. They have had many problems with these checkpoints because they are poorly labeled and warning signs down the road sometimes arent put up. As well as the fact that these checkpoints change places daily, its not like some dude at a booth, its just some soldiers on the side of the road. And many times they have failed to post up warning signs down the road, resulting in innocent people being shot.
there have been numerous civil lawsuits filed against the US military for innocent deaths as a result of the checkpoints failing to post up warning signs and being poorly labeled.

 

[ColdBlooded]

another point to be noted:

• she was traveling in a convoy of cars
  which makes it harder to mistake it as something it wasn't like one car "speeding" toward a "checkpoint"

UN asked to investigate US shooting of Italian journalist and military intelligence officer
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=12761

Reporters Without Borders today called for a UN investigation to shed light on the circumstances in which the US military fired on a vehicle carrying the newly freed Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena yesterday in Baghdad, injuring Sgrena and killing an Italian military officer accompanying her.

"A thorough investigation must be quickly carried out by the United Nations into this blunder with tragic consequences," Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Robert Ménard said.

"It is clear that his enquiry cannot be conducted just by the US army which in the past, especially in the case of the Palestine Hotel shooting that killed two journalists, produced reports aimed solely at exonerating the military," Ménard said, adding, "we demand to know the full truth about this distressing affair."

Reporters Without Borders had voiced "extreme disappointment" about the report of the US army's enquiry into the April 2003 Palestine Hotel shooting, which cleared the coalition forces of any fault or negligence.



P.S. epoxy i've still got that land for sale