After Italian intelligence operatives had secured her release from Iraqi insurgents, journalist Giuliana Sgrena was admittedly elated, celebrating her new lease on life after a month-long hostage ordeal.
That was before US soldiers opened fire on the vehicle which carried Sgrena and her rescuers towards the Baghdad airport.
One Italian secret service agent, Nicola Calipari, was killed, while Sgrena and another intelligence official were wounded in the American fusillade.
Did US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld specifically target a journalist in this instance? Absolutely not. He didn't have to, as his policies have already turned all of Iraq into a deadly free-fire zone.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9F3D082E-919F-4C0E-AD2E-7541EC22B048.htm
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