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Originally posted by TooManySecrets
I don't understand why they don't just ban the use of civilian automobiles in the city limits. I know it would be commuter hell, i'm sure it would be easier to spot the car bombers then.
Originally posted by AceOfBase
Originally posted by Broadsword20068
Like they say though, it is a war zone, you drive very cautiously if you're on a road famous for car bombings.
They were going 25-30 miles an hour and they were on a 'prvileged' road that not many cars travel on.
2005-03-06 Conflicting Reports (MSNBC).asf
An Italian service agent also says they were travelling around 25-30 miles per hour.
EDIT: According to Italy's leading daily Corriere della Sera, the driver, an unidentified Italian agent, said: "We were driving slowly, about 40-50 km/h (25-30 mph)."
stuff.co.nz
[edit on 6-3-2005 by AceOfBase]
Originally posted by AceOfBase
Originally posted by Broadsword20068
Like they say though, it is a war zone, you drive very cautiously if you're on a road famous for car bombings.
They were going 25-30 miles an hour and they were on a 'privileged' road that not many cars travel on.
2005-03-06 Conflicting Reports (MSNBC).asf
An Italian service agent also says they were traveling around 25-30 miles per hour.
EDIT: According to Italy's leading daily Corriere della Sera, the driver, an unidentified Italian agent, said: "We were driving slowly, about 40-50 km/h (25-30 mph)."
stuff.co.nz
[edit on 6-3-2005 by AceOfBase]
The car kept on the road, going under an underpass full of puddles and almost losing control to avoid them.
Sgrena describes going towards the airport. “It was less than one kilometer, they told me when … I remember only fire. At that point a rain of fire and bullets came at us, forever silencing the happy voices from a few minutes earlier.
“The driver started shouting we were Italians. Nicola dove on top of me to protect me and immediately, and I mean immediately, I felt his last breath as he died on me,” she writes.
Originally posted by rapier28
How can the Italians not have told the Americans?
I found that extremely hard to believe unless Berlusconi was in on the killing as well.
CNN
ROME, Italy (CNN) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says the intelligence agent shot dead by the U.S. military told them he would be escorting a newly released hostage to the airport -- contrary to U.S. claims.
Another Italian attache, who was at the Baghdad airport, also told U.S. military personnel the car carrying agent Nicola Calipari and journalist Giuliana Sgrena was on its way to the airport March 4 before the shooting occurred, Berlusconi told the Italian senate on Wednesday.