Satellite records Italian Check point event.

[Whoha]

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"A US satellite reportedly recorded a checkpoint shooting in Iraq last month, enabling investigators to reconstruct how fast a car carrying a top Italian intelligence official and a freed hostage was traveling when US troops opened fire."


[edit]Bad computer! copy and paste it now.[/edit]
Jesus! don't add the URL tag, and don't put the damned space in front of italyusiraqsatellite. Ok, try this, copy and paste all 3 lines into the address bar, with no spaces between them.

Edit: fixed link

[Qilue]

Url fixed -

linky

EDIT - try now

EDIT2 - grrrr

EDIT3 - test

What he said.

[Jonny]

That link be broken...

[Qilue]

Bug report posted.

[DanS]

You have to copy and past the URL. Yahoo! has a "feature" whereby you cannot have a referrer for the page or it will show up as story not found or whatever.

[Whoha]

its also screwing up the link though.

[DanS]

Why not just copy and paste the article?

[KrazyHorse]

either copy paste the article or nobody's going to read it.

[Ted Striker]

Were they able to determine how fast the car was going yet?

[Sirotnikov]

Were they able to determine how fast the car was going yet?

According to this article, the satellite info shows the car was driving at a speed higher than 60 MpH.

[KrazyHorse]

Copy paste the article, Siro.

[Ted Striker]

word

[Whoha]

Heres the article:WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US satellite reportedly recorded a checkpoint shooting in

Iraq last month, enabling investigators to reconstruct how fast a car carrying a top Italian intelligence official and a freed hostage was traveling when US troops opened fire.

The report, which aired Thursday on CBS News, said US investigators concluded from the recording that the car was traveling at a speed of more than 60 miles (96 km) per hour.

Giuliana Sgrena has said the car was traveling at a normal speed of about 30 miles an hour when the soldiers opened fired, wounding her and killing Nicola Calipari, the Italian agent who had just secured her release from a month's captivity.

US soldiers said at the time of the March 4 incident that the car approached at a high rate of speed and that they fired only after it failed to respond to hand signals, flashing bright lights and warning shots.

The conflicting accounts were among a number of differences that have prevented US and Italian authorities from reaching agreement on what happened.

CBS, citing

Pentagon officials, said the satellite recording enabled investigators to reconstruct the event without having to rely on the eyewitness accounts.

It said the soldiers manning the checkpoint first spotted the Italian car when it was 137 yards (meters) away. By the time they opened fire and brought the car to a halt, it was 46 yards (meters) away. CBS said that happened in less than three seconds, which meant the car had to be going over 60 miles an hour.

CBS said Italian investigators refused to accept that the Americans were justified in shooting so quickly, arguing among other things that the checkpoint was not properly marked."

And the link isn't fixed, thanks for the effort but it added some stuff in there that shouldn't be part of the link.

[Urban Ranger]

The link is correct, it's just that Yahoo! News breaks it. On second thought, maybe it's vBB.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

uh oh someone got caught lying,