Holy Shittoki Batman
By: EDDIE NELSON 03/07/2005
Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, was wounded by US occupation forces after being “released” by her Iraqi “captors”. She claims that her “kidnappers” never treated her badly, and that they even warned her to be careful “….because the Americans don’t want you to return”. This is a far cry from the treatment received by another Italian journalist, Enzo Baldoni, captured by the Iraqi resistance. He was beheaded by members of the Islamic Army, after demands that Italy withdraw its military from Iraq went unheeded. So why the special treatment for journalist Giuliana Sgrena?
Could it be that, Giuliana Sgrena, was a “friendly” hostage in Iraq? In other words, was her “kidnapping” by Iraqi resistance fighters a cover to allow her to investigate US war crimes in Iraq, and Fallujah specifically? I raise this question only as a possibility because it is apparent that the Bush minion and front man in Iraq, John Negroponte, either believed this, or at least suspected it, and took drastic steps to prevent journalist Giuliana Sgrena from leaving Iraq without first searching her person, and those traveling with her.Giuliana Sgrena and two Italian Secret Service agents were wounded, and an Italian intelligence officer, Nicola Calipari, was killed when US troops fired approximately 400 rounds into their car. Sgrena was being taking to the Baghdad airport, after being “freed” by the Iraqi resistance. The shooting Friday has fueled anti-American sentiment in Italy where about 90 percent of the people are deeply opposed to U.S. policy in Iraq. The dictator of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, has posted about 3000 token troops in Iraq in a show of support for the Bush dictatorship, contrary to the wishes of the Italian people.
Sgrena, who writes for the communist newspaper Il Manifesto, is a rarity among investigative journalists today. She believes that a reporter should actually investigate a story, rather than copy State Department handouts. However, the Bush occupiers in Iraq have made real investigative reporting almost impossible. Early in the war, the U.S. Military sent a message to independent minded journalists with the murder of two TV cameramen, Spaniard José Couso and Ukrainian Taras Protsyuk. On April 8, 2003, a U.S. tank fired on their hotel room at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, even though the US Military knew that foreign journalists were staying at the hotel. In addition, that same day, Al-Jazeera cameraman Tarek Ayoub was killed when a US missile was lobbed into the Al-Jazeera office near the Mansour Hotel in the centre of Baghdad.
Embedded journalists are compromised from the get-go. They can report nothing without the military censor’s approval, and US “journalists” don’t even bother to make the effort. Independent minded journalists don’t fair much better then the embedded journalists in Iraq, because their movements are watched and restricted by the U.S. Military. A real investigative Journalist like Giuliana Sgrena, who refuse to be cowed by U.S. censors in Iraq, are often arrested, expelled, or even executed. Examples of the latter are:
Palestinian cameraman Mazen Dana, shot dead by an American soldier on August 17, 2003 while filming outside the now infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. US officials said the soldier mistook his camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, but the message to journalist was loud and clear.
Two Al-Arabiya journalists, cameraman Ali Abdel-Aziz and reporter Ali Al-Khatib, killed by American forces on March 18, 2004 near the Borj al-Hayat Hotel. Even though there their vehicle was clearly marked “TV”, and they had permission to be there, an armored vehicle fired on them anyway.
Another message was sent to Mahmoud Hamid Abbas, who was killed on August 15, 2004 while on his way from Falluja to Baghdad. He worked for the German TV Network ZDF as a freelance producer, and had just phoned the ZDF office in Baghdad to say he had just filmed a house being destroyed by US warplanes. During the call he was being fired on. According to ZDF, there was a dull thud and the line was cut off.
Another Palestinian journalist, Mazen al-Tomaizi, got the message on September 12, 2004 while filming a burning Bradley fighting vehicle in Baghdad. He was killed by a missile fired from a US helicopter.
Iraqi freelance cameraman, Dhia Najim, was working for the news agency Reuters when he was shot dead in disputed circumstances on November 1, 2004 in the town of Ramadi. Reuters called for an investigation by the US army. Based on Najim’s own film footage, Reuters, his colleagues and family believe he was killed by a US sniper.
Information about journalists provided by Reporters Without Borders.
The point is that a reporter who wants to investigate allegations of US war crimes in Iraq must somehow escape the control of the US military and their censors in the Pentagon. If the Iraqi resistance wants to expose the truth about US war crimes, they must some how provide cover for a willing investigative journalist. The “friendly” kidnapping scenario provides such a cover.
According to recent news reports, Giuliana Sgrena is claiming that their vehicle was traveling at normal speed contrary to US accounts that they were speeding and refused to stop when signaled.
What’s more, according to Sgrena’s boyfriend, Pier Scolari, ”(t) hey were [only] 700 meters from the airport, which means that they had already passed all [US military] checkpoints.” Scolari added, “Giuliana had information, and the US military did not want her to survive”.
Sgrena’s survival may or may not have been the objective when US forces rained a hale of 400 bullets into the car carrying her to “safety”. Clearly, if Negroponte thought that Sgrena had evidence, such as film, photos, or documents, that might expose US war crimes (such a chemical warfare or mass murder in Fallujah), one can rest assured that he was not about to let her leave Iraq without a thorough search. However, because Italian troops, the press, and diplomats were waiting her arrival at the airport, an involuntary search there would have been problematic for diplomatic reasons. It looks like the assault on Serena and her companions, was a well-planned CIA operation, the objective being primarily to insure that Sgrena did not leave Iraq with damning evidence on her person. Without such evidence, Bush and Negroponte can simply deny Serena’s allegations and discredit her as just a Marxist ideologue who hates “America’s freedoms”. After all, this was Negroponte’s modus operandi in Latin America. Covering up war crimes is his job.
Ed Nelson03/07/2005
http://watchingthewatchers.org/index.php?p=399
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Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, was wounded by US occupation forces after being “released” by her Iraqi “captors”. She claims that her “kidnappers” never treated her badly, and that they even warned her to be careful “….because the Americans don’t want you to return”. This is a far cry from the treatment received by another Italian journalist, Enzo Baldoni, captured by the Iraqi resistance. He was beheaded by members of the Islamic Army, after demands that Italy withdraw its military from Iraq went unheeded. So why the special treatment for journalist Giuliana Sgrena?
Could it be that, Giuliana Sgrena, was a “friendly” hostage in Iraq? In other words, was her “kidnapping” by Iraqi resistance fighters a cover to allow her to investigate US war crimes in Iraq, and Fallujah specifically? I raise this question only as a possibility because it is apparent that the Bush minion and front man in Iraq, John Negroponte, either believed this, or at least suspected it, and took drastic steps to prevent journalist Giuliana Sgrena from leaving Iraq without first searching her person, and those traveling with her.Giuliana Sgrena and two Italian Secret Service agents were wounded, and an Italian intelligence officer, Nicola Calipari, was killed when US troops fired approximately 400 rounds into their car. Sgrena was being taking to the Baghdad airport, after being “freed” by the Iraqi resistance. The shooting Friday has fueled anti-American sentiment in Italy where about 90 percent of the people are deeply opposed to U.S. policy in Iraq. The dictator of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, has posted about 3000 token troops in Iraq in a show of support for the Bush dictatorship, contrary to the wishes of the Italian people.
Sgrena, who writes for the communist newspaper Il Manifesto, is a rarity among investigative journalists today. She believes that a reporter should actually investigate a story, rather than copy State Department handouts. However, the Bush occupiers in Iraq have made real investigative reporting almost impossible. Early in the war, the U.S. Military sent a message to independent minded journalists with the murder of two TV cameramen, Spaniard José Couso and Ukrainian Taras Protsyuk. On April 8, 2003, a U.S. tank fired on their hotel room at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, even though the US Military knew that foreign journalists were staying at the hotel. In addition, that same day, Al-Jazeera cameraman Tarek Ayoub was killed when a US missile was lobbed into the Al-Jazeera office near the Mansour Hotel in the centre of Baghdad.
Embedded journalists are compromised from the get-go. They can report nothing without the military censor’s approval, and US “journalists” don’t even bother to make the effort. Independent minded journalists don’t fair much better then the embedded journalists in Iraq, because their movements are watched and restricted by the U.S. Military. A real investigative Journalist like Giuliana Sgrena, who refuse to be cowed by U.S. censors in Iraq, are often arrested, expelled, or even executed. Examples of the latter are:
Palestinian cameraman Mazen Dana, shot dead by an American soldier on August 17, 2003 while filming outside the now infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. US officials said the soldier mistook his camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, but the message to journalist was loud and clear.
Two Al-Arabiya journalists, cameraman Ali Abdel-Aziz and reporter Ali Al-Khatib, killed by American forces on March 18, 2004 near the Borj al-Hayat Hotel. Even though there their vehicle was clearly marked “TV”, and they had permission to be there, an armored vehicle fired on them anyway.
Another message was sent to Mahmoud Hamid Abbas, who was killed on August 15, 2004 while on his way from Falluja to Baghdad. He worked for the German TV Network ZDF as a freelance producer, and had just phoned the ZDF office in Baghdad to say he had just filmed a house being destroyed by US warplanes. During the call he was being fired on. According to ZDF, there was a dull thud and the line was cut off.
Another Palestinian journalist, Mazen al-Tomaizi, got the message on September 12, 2004 while filming a burning Bradley fighting vehicle in Baghdad. He was killed by a missile fired from a US helicopter.
Iraqi freelance cameraman, Dhia Najim, was working for the news agency Reuters when he was shot dead in disputed circumstances on November 1, 2004 in the town of Ramadi. Reuters called for an investigation by the US army. Based on Najim’s own film footage, Reuters, his colleagues and family believe he was killed by a US sniper.
Information about journalists provided by Reporters Without Borders.
The point is that a reporter who wants to investigate allegations of US war crimes in Iraq must somehow escape the control of the US military and their censors in the Pentagon. If the Iraqi resistance wants to expose the truth about US war crimes, they must some how provide cover for a willing investigative journalist. The “friendly” kidnapping scenario provides such a cover.
According to recent news reports, Giuliana Sgrena is claiming that their vehicle was traveling at normal speed contrary to US accounts that they were speeding and refused to stop when signaled.
What’s more, according to Sgrena’s boyfriend, Pier Scolari, ”(t) hey were [only] 700 meters from the airport, which means that they had already passed all [US military] checkpoints.” Scolari added, “Giuliana had information, and the US military did not want her to survive”.
Sgrena’s survival may or may not have been the objective when US forces rained a hale of 400 bullets into the car carrying her to “safety”. Clearly, if Negroponte thought that Sgrena had evidence, such as film, photos, or documents, that might expose US war crimes (such a chemical warfare or mass murder in Fallujah), one can rest assured that he was not about to let her leave Iraq without a thorough search. However, because Italian troops, the press, and diplomats were waiting her arrival at the airport, an involuntary search there would have been problematic for diplomatic reasons. It looks like the assault on Serena and her companions, was a well-planned CIA operation, the objective being primarily to insure that Sgrena did not leave Iraq with damning evidence on her person. Without such evidence, Bush and Negroponte can simply deny Serena’s allegations and discredit her as just a Marxist ideologue who hates “America’s freedoms”. After all, this was Negroponte’s modus operandi in Latin America. Covering up war crimes is his job.
Ed Nelson03/07/2005
http://watchingthewatchers.org/index.php?p=399
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