[list_indonesia] Re: [ppiindia] Untung Wartawan MetroTV tidak ditembak pasukan AS sewaktu dibebaskan.
- From: Satrio Arismunandar <satrioarismunandar@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ppiindia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 22:33:28 -0800 (PST)
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Sayang, fakta dan peristiwa yang terjadi tidak sesuai
dengan skenario Sdr. Kim Hook. Padahal semula oleh
Sdr. Kim Hook diperkirakan, perlakuan terhadap
wartawati Italia itu pasti berbeda ketimbang perlakuan
terhadap dua wartawan Metro TV yang diculik di Irak,
karena alasan agama....
Wartawati Italia itu nyatanya dibebaskan, tidak
dibunuh oleh gerilyawan "muslim" Irak. Yang menembaki
dan nyaris membunuhnya adalah tentara Amerika.
Paus di Roma ikut menyesalkan peristiwa penembakan
itu...
--- "Wilson K." <pengelola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> U.S. Forces Injure Freed Italian Reporter
>
> By PATRICK QUINN, Associated Press Writer
>
> BAGHDAD, Iraq - Nursing an injured shoulder, an
> Italian journalist
> held by Iraqi insurgents for a month headed home
> Saturday, a day after
> she came under gunfire from U.S. troops while on her
> way to freedom.
> An intelligence agent who had helped negotiate her
> release was killed.
>
> President Bush expressed regret and promised to
> investigate the
> incident, which happened at a checkpoint in Baghdad.
> The military said
> U.S. soldiers, not knowing the car was carrying
> journalist Giuliana
> Sgrena, fired after it failed to slow down.
>
> But Bush's phone call late Friday to Prime Minister
> Silvio Berlusconi
> did little to assuage anger In Italy, which has been
> holding its
> breath over Sgrena's fate for weeks. The shooting
> was likely to set
> off fresh protests against Berlusconi for keeping
> 3,000 troops in Iraq
> despite strong opposition.
>
> "Another victim of an absurd war," said Alfonso
> Pecoraro Scanio,
> leader of the Green Party.
>
> A communist senator called for a protest Saturday in
> front of the U.S.
> Consulate in Milan.
>
> Sgrena left Iraq after she was discharged from an
> American military
> hospital in Baghdad where she had been treated for
> shrapnel in the
> shoulder. She was expected in Rome later Saturday.
>
> Sgrena, 56, was abducted Feb. 4 by gunmen who
> blocked her car outside
> Baghdad University. Last month, she was shown in a
> video pleading for
> her life and demanding that all foreign troops ?
> including Italian
> forces ? leave Iraq.
>
> Friday's shooting occurred shortly after her
> release. It was about 9
> p.m. in Baghdad at the time.
>
> The U.S. military said the car was speeding as it
> approached a
> coalition checkpoint in western Baghdad on its way
> to the airport. It
> said soldiers shot into the engine block only after
> trying to warn the
> driver to stop by "hand and arm signals, flashing
> white lights, and
> firing warning shots."
>
> The intelligence agent was killed when he threw
> himself over Sgrena to
> protect her from U.S. fire, Apcom quoted Gabriele
> Polo, the editor of
> the leftist Italian newspaper Il Manifesto, as
> saying. Sgrena works
> for Il Manifesto.
>
> Berlusconi identified the dead intelligence officer
> as Nicola Calipari
> and said he had been at the forefront of
> negotiations with the
> kidnappers. The prime minister said Calipari had
> been involved in the
> release of other Italian hostages in Iraq in the
> past.
>
> The Americans said two people were wounded, but
> Berlusconi said there
> were three ? Sgrena and two intelligence officers.
> One of the officers
> was in serious condition, according to the Apcom
> news agency in Italy.
>
> Insurgents have repeatedly attacked checkpoints, and
> soldiers have
> often fired on cars that don't obey commands to stop
> or slow down.
>
> Berlusconi said he had been celebrating Sgrena's
> release with the
> editor of Il Manifesto and Sgrena's boyfriend, Pier
> Scolari, when he
> took a phone call from an agent who informed them of
> the shooting.
>
> "It's a shame that the joy we all felt was turned
> into tragedy,"
> Berlusconi said.
>
> The shooting came as a blow to Berlusconi, who
> continues to face huge
> protests over his support for the Iraq war and his
> refusal to withdraw
> Italian troops. Sgrena's newspaper was a loud
> opponent of the war.
>
> "It's incredible that a man who was busying himself
> with the difficult
> task of saving a life was killed by those who say
> they are in Iraq to
> safeguard the life of civilians," said Piero
> Fassino, leader of the
> Democratic Party of the Left.
>
>
>
> Bush called Berlusconi and expressed regret about
> the incident, Bush
> spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters Friday
> night.
>
> "The president assured Prime Minister Berlusconi it
> would be fully
> investigated," McClellan said.
>
> McClellan wouldn't comment on what the incident
> might mean for
> participation by Italy or other countries in the
> coalition.
>
> Another European reporter, Florence Aubenas, a
> veteran war
> correspondent for France's leftist daily Liberation,
> is still being
> held in Iraq. Aubenas and her interpreter, Hussein
> Hanoun al-Saadi,
> disappeared nearly two months ago.
>
> Iraqis have reported numerous incidents where
> confusion at U.S.
> checkpoints has led to U.S. soldiers killing
> innocent civilians.
>
> In a 2003 friendly-fire incident involving Italians,
> American soldiers
> in northern Iraq shot at a car carrying the Italian
> official heading
> up U.S. efforts to recover Iraq's looted
> antiquities. Pietro Cordone,
> the top Italian diplomat in Iraq, was unhurt, but
> his Iraqi translator
> was killed.
>
> Also Friday, four U.S. troops were killed west of
> the capital in
> sprawling Anbar province, where American forces
> launched a sweep two
> weeks ago to root out insurgents, the military said.
> The four were
> assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force.
>
> About 200 foreigners have been abducted in Iraq in
> the past year, and
> more than 30 of the hostages were killed.
>
> ___
>
> Associated Press writer Angela Doland contributed to
> this report from
> Rome.
>
>
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20050305/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
>
>
>
>
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