Friday, March 04, 2005

US Forces Fire at Freed Italian Journalist???

What the heck is this all about???

From Reuters a few minutes ago....."U.S. Forces Fire at Freed Reporter in Iraq" U.S. Forces Fire at Freed Reporter's Car, Agent Killed Reuters -

ROME (Reuters) - U.S. forces fired at a car carrying Italian reporter Giuliana Sgrena shortly after her liberation, wounding some of the passengers, the journalist's newspaper said on Friday.

"She was going in a car to the airport with three people from the Italian security forces. U.S. forces opened fire on the car. She is fine but there are wounded," Il Manifesto's editorial director Francesco Paterno told Reuters.


Italian news agency ANSA said Sgrena had been wounded in the shoulder and added that one of the Italian secret service agents had been killed. Another news agency, AGI, said Sgrena was being treated in a Baghdad hospital.

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