The Italian Hostage Whose Release We Greeted with Gunfire

While not a lot of attention is being paid to the story of the Italian journalist whose release from her captors in Iraq was greeted by coalition force gunfire, the rest of the world is rather upset.

The Turkish press calls it a deliberate war crime. International journalists are questioning this incident considering how many journalists and cameramen have been targeted by U.S. and other coalition forces. One London paper is reporting that Italy is outraged (not that it takes Italy much to get upset about but this is rather noteworthy).

Meanwhile, "coalition forces" (code word for "let's spread the guilt since it's always American forces forces spelled out when it's good news) say it's the journalist's fault.

Hey, she's a woman, a journalist, and a foreigner, which in Bushspeak amounts to three strikes.
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