A New Zealand View

Right now you might notice a large news story that is about an Italian secret agent being shot my American soldiers. The story is as follows.
A car carrying 2 Italian agents, a driver and Mrs Giuliana Sgrena was shot at by American soldiers, they shot the car as is passed them and filled it with buttets, killing 1 and wounding 3 these are the 2 sides accounts.

American:

• Forces fired on a vehicle that was approaching at high speed


• Troops attempted to warn the driver to stop by hand and arm signals, flashing white lights, and firing warning shots


• When the driver didn't stop, the soldiers shot into the engine block

Mrs Sgrena (Italian)

• The driver had spoken twice to the embassy and to Italy to say we were on our way to the airport


• We were less than a kilometre [from the airport]... when... I remember there was shooting


• The driver began screaming that we were Italian


• We weren't going particularly fast given that type of situation, no faster than 40km

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4328551.stm>

Since this is just a journal that means I am allowed to take sides, it is a hard choice seeing as both sides have a good arguement, however, a car doing a legitimate job like this would have stopped when asked, there for the American story is the hardest to believe for me, I'll take the Italian side for this.

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