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The 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.