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BlackCat
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Of course Bush didn't want Italy to get away with freeing a hostage, so he ordered an abush. It was just sheer unluck that the attack helicopters wa sent in the opposite direction and that the howitzers malfunctioned, otherwise the car would have been totally destroyed instead of what some guardians at a checkpoint was able to accomplish.
Yes, for certain, Bush is incompetent, even an ambush on friendly forces he can mess up.
edit: damn spelliggn
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Chemical Ollie
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Bored of this board
Jan 2002
time: 06:36
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Why have checkpoints in a democracy enjoying full freedom?
SOP is a really bad excuse for any mistake, SOP would have killed Saddam and left no traces if they were fully followed in 2003, prolonging the worst part of the war by months or years.
Throw a grenade down the hole, and all problems will be gone. The grenade will never destroy any private property, it will never kill any innocent children, and that red pulp sticking to the spiderhole wall will be checked out by a DNA test and identified as a part of Saddam's ass. Yeah right... F*CK SOP
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BlackCat
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quote:
Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
Why have checkpoints in a democracy enjoying full freedom? |
BS.
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BlackCat
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quote:
Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
I know it's BS, that why I say it |
Can't figure out if you mean that it's your statement that is BS or if it is the content - please enlighten.
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techumseh
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of the frozen North.
Apr 1999
time: 22:36
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quote:
U.S. forces shoot just-freed Italian hostage, kill negotiator
Last Updated Fri, 04 Mar 2005 19:10:20 EST
CBC News
ROME - Joy turned to horror in Italy on Friday when an Italian journalist who had been held hostage in Iraq was released, only to be shot by U.S. military forces at a checkpoint in Baghdad.
Journalist Giuliana Sgrena underwent shoulder surgery in Baghdad Friday.
Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena suffered a shrapnel wound to her shoulder when an American armoured car fired on her vehicle, while an Italian intelligence officer who had negotiated her release was killed.
Sgrena's editor said the dead agent, Nicola Calipari, had thrown his body over Sgrena's in order to protect her.
Two other intelligence agents in the car were also injured.
Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, has asked the American ambassador to explain the incident.
"It's a shame that the joy we all felt was turned into tragedy," he said Friday evening.
In Washington, the Pentagon confirmed that a shooting occurred as the Italian woman was being brought to an American base near Baghdad's airport.
"At approximately 8:55 p.m. tonight, coalition forces assigned to the multinational force in Iraq fired on a vehicle that was approaching a coalition checkpoint in Baghdad at a high rate of speed," the military said in a statement.
The Italians' car made no move to slow down despite signals and warning shots, so U.S. forces fired into its engine block, the statement said.
White House press spokesman Scott McClellan said coalition forces will co-operate with Italian authorities during an investigation into the incident.
"We regret the loss of life," he said from Washington. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of the Italian citizen."
Sgrena, a 56-year-old reporter for the communist daily newspaper Il Manifesto, had been held captive in Iraq since Feb. 4.
Thousands of demonstrators marched through downtown Rome last month demanding that Italy pull its troops out of Iraq, after a video was released of a tearful Sgrena warning that she would be killed if the country didn't withdraw.
Shortly after the video was released, the Italian senate voted to extend the country's 3,000-troop mission in Iraq to June.
The ANSA news agency said Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini expressed "great joy and enormous satisfaction" early Friday about the reporter's release.
She was at least the eighth Italian citizen seized in Iraq in recent months. Last September, two female Italian journalists were released unharmed by their unknown abductors after about three weeks.
At the time, the government denied allegations that it paid a $1-million US ransom for their release.
Several other Italian hostages have been killed by their captors.
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techumseh
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of the frozen North.
Apr 1999
time: 22:36
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UR, can you transfer the other post's here?
edit: thank you
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