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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend.... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Suma who wrote (9818)	4/29/2005 6:29:57 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35834

US satellite recorded checkpoint shooting, shows speed of Italian car: CBS WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US satellite reportedly recorded a checkpoint shooting in Iraq last month, enabling investigators to reconstruct how fast a car carrying a top Italian intelligence official and a freed hostage was traveling when US troops opened fire. The report, which aired Thursday on CBS News, said US investigators concluded from the recording that the car was traveling at a speed of more than 60 miles (96 km) per hour. Giuliana Sgrena has said the car was traveling at a normal speed of about 30 miles an hour when the soldiers opened fired, wounding her and killing Nicola Calipari, the Italian agent who had just secured her release from a month's captivity. US soldiers said at the time of the March 4 incident that the car approached at a high rate of speed and that they fired only after it failed to respond to hand signals, flashing bright lights and warning shots. The conflicting accounts were among a number of differences that have prevented US and Italian authorities from reaching agreement on what happened. CBS, citing Pentagon officials, said the satellite recording enabled investigators to reconstruct the event without having to rely on the eyewitness accounts. It said the soldiers manning the checkpoint first spotted the Italian car when it was 137 yards (meters) away. By the time they opened fire and brought the car to a halt, it was 46 yards (meters) away. CBS said that happened in less than three seconds, which meant the car had to be going over 60 miles an hour. CBS said Italian investigators refused to accept that the Americans were justified in shooting so quickly, arguing among other things that the checkpoint was not properly marked. news.yahoo.com

To: Suma who wrote (9818)	4/29/2005 6:42:08 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

"I tend NOT TO BELIEVE ANYTHING." Well, when it appeals to your liberal sensibilities, you consistently have shown a propensity to believe all of it fervently; often clinging to that belief even after voluminous amounts of credible evidence has thoroughly discredited it. Case in point..... "The only comment I can make about Giuliana is she seems very sincere... " How many times has she changed her story? How many times has something she said about that incident been proven to be false? How many times has Giuliana admitted her ever changing version of the events were dead wrong? Yet Giuliana remains very sincere to this day. Most unrepentant & convincing liars are very sincere. They are still liars nonetheless. That's why I'm skeptical when initial reports of anything break; even more so when these reports do not allow me to independently verify the facts, etc. And when those initial reports are based solely on opinion & assertion (unnamed officials, etc.), I'm inclined to wait for time & events unfold before I form my own opinion.