Alert: 60 Minutes II,Italian Journalist Says U.S. Lied

[Dinger]

Scott Pelley does this interview... where's Dan?

Anyway, this looks interesting:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/12/60II/main687555.shtml

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2. Jesus Christ, what are we doing over there anyway?

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On the day she was freed, her captors blindfolded Sgrena and drove her around before leaving her alone in a parked car. The next voice Sgrena heard was that of Calipari. "The voice was so friendly, really, that all my terror disappeared," she says.

Calipari led her to his car and they, along with another Italian intelligence agent, headed for the Baghdad airport. " told me, 'I sit beside you, so you will be more comfortable, so you will...not be afraid,'" says Sgrena. "After a few minutes, he told me, 'Now you are free.'"

But they weren't free. American soldiers opened fire on Sgrena's car less than a mile from the Baghdad airport. "Seven hundred meters more and we are in the airport and we will be safe...and in the same moment, started the shooting," says Sgrena, who tells Pelley that, contrary to claims by the U.S. Army, her car was not warned by hand signals, arm signals, flashing white lights or warning shots.
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Calipari used his body to shield Sgrena from the bullets; she was hit in the shoulder, and he was killed.

[Nikki Stone 1]

3. Sgrena was the target? Or was the intel officer with her?

Either way, the military never gave the full story.