The US soldiers were “not culpable” according to the US military report, which Italy has refused to endorse.
The US has evidently decided to be lenient in this case, where an agent of the Italian government apparently attempted to interfere in a routine military operation.
For the benefit of those who may not recall, Sgrena frequently published reports critical of implementation of US policies regarding Iraqi women seized by American gunmen and population reduction techniques that brought eternal freedom to so many in Fallujah, and may have deliberately engaged in unauthorized entry to closed military zones, included information about US operations that are under media cover ban, and failed to embed or even have stories vetted by US military authorities.
I don’t know why they(military) even bothered with an investigation when they knew what the outcome would be…our troops never do anything wrong now do they.
I’m sure this will endear the US even more to everyone in Italy for sure. I know that this was a tremendous news story in Italy with enormous coverage of Sgrena’s capture and mission to rescue her. Of course here in our media it was barely a blip for our talking heads on the news channels and the American public.
The public here barely knows what is going on with our troops much less what has happened to any ‘foreigner’ in Iraq.
Typical arrogant, insensitive, and expected decree.
Also check out this link to an Independent story that argues the resistance grows at such speed because the US lets its troops murder innocent civilians with impunity. The end result being thast to not punish those guilty of killing civilians causes the resistance to grow and hence causes more US troops to get killed.
http://tinyurl.com/8zzwk
yeah no kidding, can Mr. Rumsfield say ‘vicious cycle’ do ya think? That is if he was actually paying attention to our ‘fungible’ troops…isn’t that an expression he used one time?
Yeah old Rummy reminds me of those people who think they are really intelligent but are actually stupid. They like to use words that make them sound intelligent but they do no know the meaning of the word.