Reality Checkpoints
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7139834/site/newsweek/
Why did U.S. soldiers shoot at the car carrying Italian journalist
Giuliana Sgrena? Here's the most likely scenario
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Christopher Dickey
Paris Bureau Chief, Middle East Regional Editor
Newsweek
Updated: 1:56 p.m. ET March 9, 2005
March 9 - "I was terrified by checkpoints," remembers Giandomenico
Picco, who was the United Nations' key hostage negotiator in Lebanon
when so many Americans, Britons and Frenchmen were abducted there in
the 1980s by factions of Hizbullah. In order to talk to the hostage
takers, Picco would allow himself to be blindfolded and driven through
back streets, following circuitous routes over uncertain political
terrain in a land divided among feuding militias and occupied here and
there by soldiers sent from Damascus. "There were Syrian checkpoints,
there were God-knows-who checkpoints," says Picco, pausing at the
recollection. "Yes, I was afraid. Things can go wrong. Things do go
wrong."
Christopher Dickey
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/103fc803eb449822
Giuliana Sgrena
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/6c939380b8531c5b
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