wonder what the Italians think of our troops trying to kill their envoy?

[donsu]

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/sns-ap-italy-iraq-adviser,0,1689477.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines

A U.S. soldier in northern Iraq mistakenly fired on a car carrying an Italian diplomat heading up U.S. efforts to recover Iraq's looted antiquities, killing the man's Iraqi interpreter, apparently because the driver wasn't following orders fast enough, the diplomat said Friday.

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Cordone, interviewed on Italian state television, said it appeared an American soldier fired at the car because the vehicle didn't get back into its lane fast enough after trying to pass a column of American vehicles near the turnoff for Tikrit.

The diplomat, who was seated in the back of the car with his wife, said the soldier motioned that the car should get back into the lane, then fired one shot.

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"The shot went through the interpreter's heart, went out his back and grazed me on my arm," the diplomat told reporters, looking dazed a few hours after the shooting. "We didn't violate any checkpoint."

Cordone expressed hope that U.S. authorities would give compensation to the interpreter's family, including a wife and two children.
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the new mantra for our troops: when in doubt murder them

and why would anyone take their wife or family member to Iraq?????

[morningglory]

1. Not God-Awful, but embarrassing God Awful! nt

[eauclaireliberal]

2. I really feel sorry for the interpreter's family

Really, I do. I know that is not the kind of tone I usually take up, but this interpreter was expecting nothing more than to do his job, and ends up with a bullet piercing his ENTIRE FREAKIN' BODY...

Cordone, OTOH is a Berlusconi cheerleader, so I have been told. Sort of like the BushBots. As far as I'm concerned, Berlusconi can go fuck himself-seeing as to how he is a Bush-buddy. He sent him there.

But hey, the cabal doesn't seem to care about their trigger-happy amphetamine-dosed teenagers that are doing shit like this because they were RUSHED INTO COMBAT by the desperate Bushitas to fight and die in an illegal (and IMMORAL) war.

[KG]

3. well, at least the soldier wasn't hurt.

god knows, thats the important thing! :eyes:

[Bombtrack]

4. I really wonder why you would say our troops TRIED to kill them

you have to be really friggin confuse about the nature of your military that you would believe they did this on purpouse

[donsu]

5. the man is dead, the envoy wounded, wife scared s---less

it was on purpose