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[JohnyCanuck]

Just found this posted in the GD Politics forum.

The Sgrena Hit:
How They Did It, and Why

Evidence of a Precision Ambush

by Fintan Dunne, Editor
BreakForNews.com March 9th, 2005

By combining photo evidence and eyewitness accounts of the Baghdad airport shooting in which Sgrena Guiliani was wounded and Nicola Calipari killed, a compelling picture of a precision ambush emerges.

This analysis is sharpened by also considering the operational constraints upon any planned assassination of the troublesome Italian reporter. Such a killing would have to be palusibly deniable as a "mishap" and would have to avoid the slaughter of three intelligence agents in the vehicle.

That partly explains why Sgrena is still alive. A full-on salvo for a heavy calibre weapon would have left nobody alive in the vehicle. But, while slaying a political journalist is one thing -murdering three intelligence officers of a friendly nation in the process was never going to be an option.


But, the alternative was eminently feasible. It would be possible to selectively target Sgrena inside the vehicle, because the planners would know exactly where she would be seated. Assuming any half-competency in intelligence gathering, it was known the occupants would be an Iraqi driver, three intelligence agents and the target: Guiliana Sgrena.


http://wagnews.blogspot.com/2005/03/sgrena-hit-how-they-did-it-and-why.html