From: Jeff Shultz 

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:24:10 -0500, Rich Gauszka wrote:

>
> "Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
> news:pan.2005.03.12.22.52.14.921582{at}shultzinfosystems.com...
>   >
>> Actually, based on her claim of scooping up bullets off the upholstery
>> after the incident, it indicates that the US troops are amazingly good
>> shots - they put 300-400 rounds, at full auto, through a single bullet
>> sized hole in the windshield....
>>
>>
>>
> It looks like the Italians didn't keep the U.S. forces informed either.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4341387.stm According to newspaper La
> Repubblica, Gen Mario Marioli helped the two Italian secret service agents
> obtain a special badge from the coalition forces on their arrival in
> Baghdad.
>
> But Gen Marioli, who is the coalition forces' second-in-command,
> reportedly was unaware that the officers were on a mission to free Ms
> Sgrena, and so the information he passed on to US officials was
> incomplete.
>
> Fatal coincidence
>
> Gen Marioli's testimony is crucial because he is the man who was keeping
> the US forces informed of the car's arrival before the fatal shooting, in
> which a US patrol killed the secret service agent and injured Ms Sgrena
> and a second officer.
>
> Gen Marioli's version, as reported by the papers, also contradicts a
> reconstruction by the Italian government and Prime Minister Silvio
> Berlusconi, who said the US military had been advised that Ms Sgrena was
> on board the car.
>
> The US military have said they had no knowledge of the rescue mission.

So Berlusconi et al are going "You knew" (because we told our
guy) apparently not realizing he hadn't told anyone else...

I see a short future career for Gen Marioli in the Italian Army.

Did you see the reports where she's now saying that the shots came from the
right and behind? That would indicate that they managed to speed _through_
the checkpoint before being shot... if it were accurate, and it isn't.

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