From: Adam 

Jeff Shultz wrote:

> 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...
>

That's not what it says.

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

Why? Why did he need to know what the Italian intel were up to?

> 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.
>

Or that the soldiers carried on shooting.

Adam

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