Italy Rebuts U.S. Report That Cleared G.I.’s in Killing

A 52 page exhaustive report on the shooting of Sgrena’s car, released today rebuts the US report released Saturday. But the article gives more space to the American report and its conclusion appears to back up the American report.

“It is clear that while the hostage recovery operation may have otherwise been a success, prior coordination might have prevented this tragedy,” the American report said.

The report said that tensions along the expressway had been heightened by 135 insurgent attacks on the road in the previous four months, and that the platoon had been informed that two suspected suicide car bombers, one in a white car and the other in a black vehicle, had been spotted in the area. The Toyota involved in the shooting of the Italian was white.”

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The Italian report says this:

“It is not clear how the eventual knowledge of the contents of the operation would have favorably affected the course of events,” it said.

in response to the American report saying this:

“It is clear that while the hostage recovery operation may have otherwise been a success, prior coordination might have prevented this tragedy,” the American report said.”

The article gives the Americans the last word which I guess is only natural chauvinism.

Where are you Gilgamesh?

Update [2005-5-3 5:58:59 by sybil]:
There’s a diary by DuctapeFatwa on DKos reporting that Berlusconi edited the Italian Report!

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