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liveoaktx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:33 AM
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8. Infuriating-Road Blocks BLOCK THE ROAD, don't they?
IF it were true that someone the American troops had decided to set up an *impromptu* road block, it would have stopped the car and then the troops could have fired on the car driving THROUGH THE BLOCK. That's not at all how it's described-plus how is it that the hail of bullets wouldn't have killed the driver, too, unless they were from the side of the vehicle.

It's also fishy how, according to another article, "The shooting late on Friday was overheard by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's office, which was on the phone with one of the secret service agents, said Scolari. "Then the US military silenced the cellphones," he charged."

If we were to believe that this was an accident, then we also have to believe that the Americans themselves make the roads drastically, randomly unsafe for anyone driving at normal speeds on a highway, putting residents at risk by not properly stopping them but firing on them at irregular points, and then covering up firings by ensuring that no one can make phone calls, and not allowing ambulance relief for extended periods of time.

Imagine that happening, with, say, a drunken driver road block in this country. You're driving down the highway, and you see, off to the side, where you don't expect it, someone waving at you and shining a flashlight-you keep going because you don't know what the heck it is, and you get automatic rounds fired into your car FROM THE SIDE into your backseat, killing your passengers. When you then stop, the people who fired won't let you go to hospital and confiscate your cell phone so you can't alert anyone.
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