Maybe it's not the right car.

Who knows, maybe it isn't the car, maybe she was lieing badly and it was a freak shot of some sort, maybe it's a coverup and there's a car riddled with 50cal holes somewhere, what I don't know, that something doesn't add up is clear.

I agree....something stinks. :eyebrow:

There are two posts here at the Reason, Hit and Run section that sum up the confusion pretty good.

Their posts are always riddled with links so you'll want to go look.

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"Journalist Sgrena detested yankees"

Not the Bronx Bombers, 'Mmericans. Or at least that is what the combination of a free Web translating site and a Dutch dispatch on the Sgrena affair relate.

If I read the Yoda-speak results correctly, a Dutch correspondent says the Italian journalist told him she had no fear of being a kidnap target in Iraq because, "We stand on the side of the suppressed Iraqi people." Oh.

More according to Harald Doornbos' account of their conversation during the flight into Baghdad from Beirut, by way of our trusted Yoda-izer:

"You get the situation not. We are anti-imperialists, anti-capitalists, communists," said she. "The Iraqis only kidnap American sympathizers, the enemies of the Americas have nothing to fear."

And this tidbit as picked up by the Command Post:

"The Americans are the biggest enemies of mankind."

This thing just keeps getting better and better.
Posted by Jeff A. Taylor at 02:58 PM | Comments (16)


J.G. Ballard in Iraq

La Repubblica says it has photos of the car that was carrying Giuliana Sgrena when she encountered those American bullets in Baghdad. If the pictures are legit, Sgrena's account of the shooting simply can't be accurate.

Jim Henley notes that the photos undercut the official U.S. story as well. Meanwhile, The Washington Post reviews the larger topic of checkpoint shootings in Iraq.
Posted by Jesse Walker at 02:44 PM | Comments (20)