Holy Warriors Warned Sgrena?
Charles Johnson
Sun Mar 6, 2005 at 5:48 pm PST • Views: 358
Here’s another bizarre statement from communist reporter Giuliana Sgrena (hat tip: Sarah D.)—and notice that this AP story at Editor and Publisher correctly identifies her newspaper as “communist,” unlike most other reports.
She says her captors warned her that “the Americans” would try to kill her.
Giuliana Sgrena, who writes for the communist newspaper Il Manifesto, described how she was wounded and Italian intelligence officer Nicola Calipari was killed as she was celebrating her freedom on the way to the airport. The shooting Friday has fueled anti-American sentiment in a country where people are deeply opposed to U.S. policy in Iraq.
“I remember only fire,” she said in her article. “At that point a rain of fire and bullets came at us, forever silencing the happy voices from a few minutes earlier.”
Sgrena said the driver began shouting that they were Italian, then “Nicola Calipari dove on top of me to protect me and immediately, and I mean immediately, I felt his last breath as he died on me.”
Suddenly, she said, she remembered her captors’ warning her “to be careful because the Americans don’t want you to return.”
Here’s the latest, almost completely rewritten version of the AP report from Yahoo: Ex-Hostage Disputes U.S. on Iraq Shooting. The line about the ominous warning from Sgrena’s holy warrior kidnappers has moved to the very end of the piece.
How long before it drops off the bottom and vanishes altogether?
Frank says: