Thursday, December 22, 2005
Just When I Think I'm Out...
Remember, back in March, the Italian journalist for the Communist paper there who was supposedly kidnapped in Iraq; and once freed she and her rescuers sped up to an American checkpoint near the Baghdad airport and one soldier there had no choice but to shoot when the vehicle did not respond to signals to stop? The journalist, Giuliana Sgrena, was slightly wounded but an Italian intelligence officer, Nicola Calipari, was killed in the shooting.
Well, the Italians have not forgotten and are investigating the soldier, who opened fire, for murder. They say the car wasn't going as fast as we claim it was.
Police and ballistic experts assigned by Rome prosecutors to examine the car have concluded the Toyota was traveling slower than the U.S. military claimed. (How can they tell the car's speed by ballistic examination?)
I thought we showed that Segrena was lying about only going 30 mph or so by spy satellite coverage of the incident. They have a tape--they know the distance the car covered and the time it took and they can figure the speed of the car. It was going 96 km/hr or over 60 mph. Or so say master bloggers Charles Johnson and Ed Morrissey et al.
I expect the un-named American soldier isn't in too much trouble.
Well, the Italians have not forgotten and are investigating the soldier, who opened fire, for murder. They say the car wasn't going as fast as we claim it was.
Police and ballistic experts assigned by Rome prosecutors to examine the car have concluded the Toyota was traveling slower than the U.S. military claimed. (How can they tell the car's speed by ballistic examination?)
I thought we showed that Segrena was lying about only going 30 mph or so by spy satellite coverage of the incident. They have a tape--they know the distance the car covered and the time it took and they can figure the speed of the car. It was going 96 km/hr or over 60 mph. Or so say master bloggers Charles Johnson and Ed Morrissey et al.
I expect the un-named American soldier isn't in too much trouble.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 10:10 PM 
