"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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White House Denies It Fired Upon Italian Journalist

Politics: 7 March 2005, Monday.

The White House denied charges that US military forces may have
deliberately targeted the car carrying former Italian hostage Giuliana
Sgrena after she was freed.

An Italian intelligence officer in the car was shot and killed in the
incident.

White House press secretary Scott McClellan said it was "absurd" for a
former hostage in Iraq to throw such charges and noted that the car was
traveling on one of the most dangerous roads in Iraq when it was fired
upon.
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Maybe the troops thought the car was full of those WMDs the White House
claimed were in Iraq?

Why? Did the trip originate in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon?