PICTURES OF ITALIAN JOURNALIST CAR

[amsterdam]

yep,its war and shit happens.the italians govt has already said that is ending its policy on paying ransoms.

[Edgar]

Well, I'll admit that i only quickly scanned your post and shouldn't have insulted you based on that limited evaluation, but i still say they didn't get off easy. The journalist was just lucky, after all the intelligence officer was killed. I'm also wondering what you mean specifically by how they normally "light em up". Also the story that the military gives doesn't make much sense. If they repeatedly warned the driver with lights, waving hands and a warning shot into the engine block, why would he keep charging at them?

[weirdo79]

It's been public knowledge for awhile now that on MOST checkpoints according to the very people in charge of them that they "light em up" (vehicles which are speeding through) this means "full spread fire, and usually an accompanying round of shells from the bradley fighting vehicles" Alex Jones I believe interviewed someone (a major I believe PH should be able to correct me if I'm wrong and add more detail) that was in charge of one and they "light up" any vehicle speeding through and that didnt sit too well with him(the major). And, my guess would be the same reason most iraqi's who are "massacred" or who "dont stop". They are afraid of what they(the military) might do they dont exactly have the most positive experience with militaries of any country after all. And, I would postulate alot of their older vehicles have failing brakes and can't exactly stop on a dime like we can with our ABS and high grade tires over here. They have yet to "light up" a suicide bomber and have only in fact "lit up" vehicles which generally had a family in them. The "official" story generally tries to make them seem guilty of something by pointing out they had an AK (the most common weapon in the middle east almost everyone's family has one for protection) and because they tend to have a large amount of cash on them (once again because of their(iraqi's) tendency to mistrust banks because of past experience) These are the stories I've been reading about from those who have come back or contacted home through other means (the soldiers). They just don't want to cover that kind of negativity on major news networks as their bosses might get mad. So in my estimation they got off easy, most of the time these "checkpoint runners" result in a very destroyed vehicle and one survivor at most. I'd call that lucky or getting off easy they pretty much mean the same thing.