Sgrena...Too Convenient....
By BummerDietz
Injury and death of civilians in wartime is regrettable. Some are using the foggy circumstances surrounding the death of Giuliana Sgrena’s guard to further Eason-esque charges that the US Military “targeted” the Italians for killing.
If we are going to assume nefarious facts about intent, let me mix it up with a plausible version of the story:
Giuliana Sgrena is a communist dedicated to the overthrow of the capitalist system. She works for a communist newspaper. She traveled to Iraq and worked on reports urging that Italy withdraw its military forces from Iraq.
Ms. Sgrena was thereafter reported to have been "captured" by fascist Islamic forces engaged in a jihad against the capitalist, non-Muslim West. Threats and were issued that if Italy did not withdraw its forces from Iraq, Sgrena would be killed.
However, unlike prior instances of islamo fascist kidnapping, Ms. Sgrena was not killed. She starred in what were claimed to be “insurgent videos” wherein she made pleas for her life, exhorting the Italians to withdraw their forces from Iraq.
Later, the Italian government facilitated a ransom payment of over $10 million to the islamo fascists who had purportedly “kidnapped” Ms. Sgrena. Presumably, the $10 million will be used by the islamo fascists to continue their jihad against the Christian West.
Ms. Sgrena, whose Communist party seeks the overthrow of the capitalist system and whose work in Iraq was to oppose the Western military forces, was never killed by the persons who she claimed “kidnapped” her. Ms. Sgrena maintains the claim that she was, in fact, kidnapped against her will.
Query whether Ms. Sgrena was really kidnapped against her will. It seems more plausible that the entire affair was faked. The objective of the fake kidnapping was to create publicity to be used against the Italian government to force it to withdraw troops.
Ms. Sgrena was never killed, a she became the conduit for a payment of $10 million to political forces aligned with her own beliefs. How "convenient."
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When the currency of the chattering classes is to assume that bad intentions are true, the damning and defamatory version, above, becomes quite plausible.
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