According to the LA Times, communist reporter Giuliana Sgrena now claims she was not even at a checkpoint: Ex-Hostage Disputes U.S. on Shooting.

The U.S. military said the shooting had been an accident and that the vehicle had been speeding toward an American checkpoint outside the airport and failed to heed warnings to stop.

But Sgrena told Italian state television Saturday that her car “was not going especially fast for a situation of that type.” She also said her group had been fired on by an American patrol and not at a checkpoint.

“We thought the danger was over after my rescue,” Sgrena told RAI television by telephone. “And instead, suddenly there was this shooting. We were hit by a spray of fire.”