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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (674306)	3/7/2005 12:16:12 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 769670

U.S.: Italian Hostage Claim 'Absurd' Monday, March 07, 2005 WASHINGTON — The White House on Monday said it was "absurd" for a former hostage in Iraq to charge that U.S. military forces may have deliberately targeted her car as she was being rushed to freedom. White House press secretary Scott McClellan said the car carrying Giuliana Sgrena (search) was traveling on one of the most dangerous roads in Iraq (search) when it was fired upon. An Italian intelligence officer in the car was shot and killed. Responding to Sgrena's statement that the car may have been deliberately targeted, McClellan said. "It's absurd to make any such suggestion, that our men and women in uniform would target individual citizens.