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...the unsworn testimony of a wounded captive indicates that there were no further checkpoints within the 700 yards to the airport that remained. The wounded captive is a journalist for a left-wing newspaper in Italy and the Italian people bitterly opposed involvement in the war in the first place.
Scuttlebutt is that Sgrena knew something and they wanted her dead before she could reveal it. They obviously failed in that regard, which is consistent with the, "no checkpoint, it must have been a sniper," story. But if Sgrena really had the goods on someone inside of Baghdad, they would not have screwed it up. There would have been multiple shooters and probably even an IED so that they could have turned around and pinned it all on the Iraqis. So if it was an attempted assassination it was not well planned, or something went wrong.
My hypothesis is that what Sgrena knew was embarrassing to the theatre, or local, leadership and they threw a plot together at the last minute. That would account for these sort of loose ends.
I would be looking for anything in the foreign press designed to convince someone with an emotional age of 10 or 12 that the "coalition forces" simply made a mistake, or were doing their jobs, etcetera. That's been the pattern of the Bush Administration all along. Anyone with an IQ over 110 and a healthy bit of skepticism wouldn't by the cover story. For this reason guys like Pol Pot went after the intellectuals immediately upon usurping power over Cambodia/Campuchia. Get rid of the smartasses, for heavens sake, they'll blow our cover.
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Volaar
on March 5, 2005 at 7:28 PM
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I read this in the news a few hours ago, but it wasn't clear what really happened. So it's true then that it was an attack by the US?? VOYAGER9940
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Voyager9940
on March 5, 2005 at 3:26 PM
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