Giuliana Sgrena doesn’t waver
I’ve previously mentioned the wounding of Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena by U.S. troops, in a suspicious shooting incident that killed Italian official Nicola Calipari. Democracy Now! has an interview with Giuliana Sgrena in which she recounts the incident in her own words.
Sgrena is standing by her story, apparently ignored by American military investigators and American press, that she and Calipari were shot without warning from behind, and that depite U.S. assertions to the contrary there was no checkpoint at all.
A third passenger in the car also survived the incident, and corroborates Sgrena’s story. This man placed a phone call to Italian officials immediately after the shooting, and for some reason was forced at gunpoint, by the American soldiers, to end the call.
Italian officials had not yet, at the time of the interview, been permitted to inspect the vehicle or to know the names of the soldiers involved in the shooting.