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The story about the Italian journalist who was recently released by her captors in Iraq only to be involved in an incident at a checkpoint with US soldiers is getting curiouser and curiouser. The military says that the vehicle was travelling “at speed” and “failed to stop at the checkpoint despite warning shots from soldiers.” Here’s this from the left wing Guardian:

Italian reconstruction of the incident is significantly different. Sgrena told colleagues the vehicle was not travelling fast and had already passed several checkpoints on its way to the airport. The Americans shone a flashlight at the car and then fired between 300 and 400 bullets at if from an armoured vehicle. Rather than calling immediately for assistance for the wounded Italians, the soldiers’ first move was to confiscate their weapons and mobile phones and they were prevented from resuming contact with Rome for more than an hour.

An armoured car? Fired 300-400 rounds? That car must be totalled, right? This is a picture of the journalists car after an armoured car fired 300-400 rounds into it (probably .50 cal which would be standard on a Bradley):

Please note the bullet proof windshield. Either that, or we’ve got to send these guys back to basic and teach them how to shoot for God’s sake!

Aside from invisible bulletts, there was always something a little stinky about this “kidnapping.” We saw a tape a month ago of this poor woman pleading for her life. In the past, that usually meant curtains as a few days later a headless body would be found. Instead, a month later, the woman is released (or rescued depending on who and what you read).

Sound a little off to you?

Obviously, someone (an anti-war commie journalist?) is not telling the truth here. I wonder when the truth comes out if anyone will ever report it?

UPDATE: ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO IN ERROR. THAT’S NOT THE CAR

The car pictured above is not the car that was mistakenly fired on by American soldiers at a checkpoint. The Associated Press who released the photo with the story now says that the photo is of stock footage of another car stopped at an American checkpoint.

Begs the question; what possessed the AP to release a photo that had nothing to do with the story it accompanied?

While the photo is inaccurate, these questions still exist:

1. Does anyone really believe that 300-400 .50 cal rounds were fired at the journalists car? If this were the case, no one would be alive to tell the story.

2. Was the journalist released or did she escape?

3. Was this entire kidnapping incident a set up to make the Americans look bad?

Can’t wait to see a real picture of the car.

Charlie Madigan, columnist for the Chicago Tribune, is one hip dude.

He’s got a blog…sort of. He reads Skankette-what red blooded American male doesn’t (I think it says a lot about the state of our society when men still are in awe of women who make penis jokes in public).

And he thinks conservative blogs drip blood from the corners of their mouths…or is it drool uncontrollably. You decide:

As for the wild-eyed conservatives, welcome aboard.

You finally have a place where you can gas on until you faint.

Sooner or later you will either develop a following or expire from lack of air. Maybe you can ascend to talk radio. Maybe you can disappear. Maybe you can libel someone and get penalized so far back into the economic dark ages that you won’t be able to upgrade your launch platform

You’re right Charlie…I can hardly see straight but for all the gas you’re blowing my way. And since your breathtaking ignorance regarding the Eason Jordan imbroglio is on display for all to see on your “blog” (C’mon Charlie! Get some snazzier graphics! Get some art on there! Too boring…) I’d like to show you what you’re missing. Because, you really are one completely clueless, kool-aid drinking moonbat!

On at least three occassions in the past two years, Eason Jordan has made the same unfounded, unproven accusations against the American military; that journalists were deliberately being targeted for death by US. soldiers. If you are so inclined, you can read the entire story here as researched by blogs all over the world and expertly-dare I say journalistically-set down by Ed Morrissey of Captains Quarters.

The fact that even liberal lawmakers Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Christopher Dodd who were present in Davos, Switzerland when Jordan made these outrageous slanders called the CNN chief to account didn’t make any difference to the mainstream media (come to think of it, didn’t see a post by you on the subject) as they lowered the cone of silence over the story effectively burying it.

We “wild-eyed” conservative bloggers have a lot of faults, I’ll grant you. Why, we can be as sanctimonious and inusfferable as you liberal bloggers…even when we’re right. The point about the Jordan affair is very simple; to this day, the MSM has failed to report why Mr. Jordan needed to go. It wasn’t one comment it was a pattern of saying things in foreign countries about the United States government and its military that were patently and provably false.

In other words, he lied.
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