Hostage bungle: Chaos, not conspiracy - By Scott Taylor

[CHIMO]

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

[fed_gov_eye]

1. Well

If aljazeera reports it.....

[riverwalker]

2. credentials

the byline is Scott Taylor. I'm sure his journalistic and field reporting standards are not as high as typical FOX reporters, like Jim Guckert. <sarcasm off>


"Former Canadian soldier Scott Taylor is the editor of Esprit de Corps military magazine and a veteran war correspondent. He has visited Iraq 20 times since August 2000 and is the author of Spinning on the Axis of Evil: America's War against Iraq and Among the Others: Encounters with the Forgotten Turkmen of Iraq. Last September he was held hostage for five days in northern Iraq by Ansar al-Islam Mujahadin."

[tom_paine]

3. Yeah, it's much more believable if Talon News reports it

Or Fox "News"

[Bridget Burke]

4. Yeah, Scott Taylor really sounds like a Muslim propagandist....

Former Canadian soldier Scott Taylor is the editor of Esprit de Corps military magazine and a veteran war correspondent. He has visited Iraq 20 times since August 2000 and is the author of Spinning on the Axis of Evil: America's War against Iraq and Among the Others: Encounters with the Forgotten Turkmen of Iraq. Last September he was held hostage for five days in northern Iraq by Ansar al-Islam Mujahadin]

If you'd actually read the article, you might have noticed there's no "conspiracy" in it. He does believe US policies in Iraq lead to unnecessary deaths. Who doesn't?