Reply #153: The driver, also an Italian intel agent, reportedly said that the car [View All]

[Garbo 2004]

was not speeding (going the equivalent of 25-30 MPH) and there were no warning shots or attempts to flag the car down before they were fired on.

As reported in a Christian Science Monitor, sometimes these "checkpoints" are not always readily identified as a checkpoint.

"You're driving along and you see a couple of soldiers standing by the side of the road - but that's a pretty ubiquitous sight in Baghdad, so you don't think anything of it. Next thing you know, soldiers are screaming at you, pointing their rifles and swiveling tank guns in your direction, and you didn't even know it was a checkpoint." http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0307/p01s04-woiq.html

But again, reportedly the driver said there was no warning prior to the shootings.