From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"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.

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