Interview: U.S. soldier blames reporter in Italian death

Taking lessons from Bush blame game

I suppose it is the Iraqi's fault we raped and pillaged their country, causing 2 million of them to flee their country and over a million deaths.

By Michelle NicholsNEW YORK, May 1
4 (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier being tried in absentia in Rome for killing an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq said on Monday that he did nothing wrong and blamed the death on an Italian reporter who was rescued by the agent.Washington has refused to hand over Mario Lozano, from the U.S. National Guard in New York, so he is on trial in absentia for killing Nicola Calipari as the intelligence agent escorted a newly freed Italian hostage out of the country in 2005.Lozano was a gunner at a checkpoint on the road to Baghdad airport. He said he opened fire on the car carrying Calipari and the freed hostage, journalist Giuliana Sgrena, after its driver ignored warning shots and refused to stop.Lozano said he blames Sgrena for the intelligence agent's death because she put herself in a situation that allowed her to be targeted by kidnappers. She was abducted as she conducted interviews outside Baghdad University and held for a month."Because of her I caused another family grief. It's her fault, I didn't set out to hurt this man; I was just doing my job," Lozano, who had been in Iraq for around six months at the time, told Reuters in an interview.
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