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To: tejek who wrote (231607)	5/5/2005 11:36:08 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 1572935

You didn't answer the question. Again, if its that easy, why wasn't the exact speed of the car provided in the report? Why is their no mention of the satellite? And don't bother bringing up your algebra experience.......it doesn't make your case. "CBS now claims that data from military satellites clearly showed the car traveling towards the checkpoint at over 60 MPH without slowing down at all, triggering the defensive response from the American soldiers: >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. ... >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." Lets work through this together. 137 - 46 = 91 yards, 1760 yards = 1 mile, 1760 / 60 seconds = 29.33 yards per second. 29.33 x 3 seconds = 88 yards. The car traveled the 91 yards in excess of an average of 60 mph (~62.05). It came to a stop in that three seconds. They must have been traveling over 100 miles per hour to be able to average over 62 mph and come to a stop. That assumes exactly 3 seconds. They used the speed of over 60 mph. I have been told that satallite intelligence recordings typically have a running time stamp. The military probably released enough information to prove the point without totally making the lady look like a bald face liar. She was under great stress at the time.