Calipari/Sgrena report available in full
May. 7th, 2005 11:55 amThe commission investigating the incident in which US troops at a Baghdad checkpoint shot at a car containing freed Italian hostage Guiliana Sgrena, wounding her and killing the intelligence agent who had just negotiated her release, released its report a little while back; about a third of its content was censored from the public release.
However, apparently people still haven't learned that pasting black rectangles over the sensitive portions of a PDF document doesn't delete the text underneath, as a result of which the full version of the report is now available on the web. I've only skimmed it briefly myself, but I figure some of you guys will be interested; from a very cursory glance, the finding seems to be that the car's driver was speeding & had several distractions, the checkpoint wasn't well signposted, the Italians didn't know the Americans were there, and the Americans didn't know the Italians were coming.
However, apparently people still haven't learned that pasting black rectangles over the sensitive portions of a PDF document doesn't delete the text underneath, as a result of which the full version of the report is now available on the web. I've only skimmed it briefly myself, but I figure some of you guys will be interested; from a very cursory glance, the finding seems to be that the car's driver was speeding & had several distractions, the checkpoint wasn't well signposted, the Italians didn't know the Americans were there, and the Americans didn't know the Italians were coming.