… If you had any sense at all.
Seems that, oh my, Giuliana Sgrena lied! She lied about how many bullets were hitting the car before, and now she lied about how fast the car was going towards the US checkpoint.

A US satellite reportedly recorded a checkpoint shooting in Iraq last month, enabling investigators to reconstruct how fast a car carrying a top Italian intelligence official and a freed hostage was traveling when US troops opened fire.

The report, which aired Thursday on CBS News, said US investigators concluded from the recording that the car was traveling at a speed of more than 60 miles (96 km) per hour.

Giuliana Sgrena has said the car was traveling at a normal speed of about 30 miles an hour when the soldiers opened fired, wounding her and killing Nicola Calipari, the Italian agent who had just secured her release from a month’s captivity.

Captain’s Quarters was the first to let me know about this one. Captain Ed has this to say about the Italians:

The Italian position, therefore, has changed. Now instead of arguing that the Americans wanted to kill Sgrena for some kind of secrecy — but then inexplicably allowed her to get medical attention once wounded — they now claim that the checkpoint wasn’t marked well enough for their driver to identify it. Going 60 MPH on a darkened road that had been widely identified as a terrorist trap, towards the airport that the Italians knew to be highly defended by American soldiers, apparently fits within Italian security parameters.

Also covered by the Country Store, who has a great accompanying graphic!

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