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March 06, 2005

What's Wrong With This Story?

Let's think through this, shall we?

The Italian journalist wounded by American troops in Iraq after her release by insurgents rejected the U.S. military's account of the shooting and declined Sunday to rule out the possibility she was deliberately targeted.

Ms. Sgrena, I am of the belief that, had the American forces specifically targeted you, you would not be here today to continue spewing your anti-American nonsense.

And, you know, I really do hate to engage in any sort of conspiracy-theorizing, but this entire section of dialogue:

"I remember only fire," she wrote in Il Manifesto, which fiercely opposed the war in Iraq. "At that point a rain of fire and bullets came at us, forever silencing the happy voices from a few minutes earlier."

Sgrena said the driver began shouting that they were Italian, then "Nicola Calipari dove on top of me to protect me and immediately, and I mean immediately, I felt his last breath as he died on me."

Suddenly, she said, she remembered her captors' words, when they warned her "to be careful because the Americans don't want you to return."

...sounds a whole lot like someone who has been rehearsing just what to say, to dramatize, to stir emotions.... to manipulate in spite of the truth. But, then again, she is a journalist, for a communist rag no less.

Were I in that situation, I think I might at least make mention that I'm glad to be alive. Odd, huh?

Update: I have it on good authority that Ms. Sgrena is actually upset because an American bullet put a hole in her Che t-shirt.