Giuliana Sgrena, the Italian reporter wounded by U.S. soldiers after the truck she was riding in refused to stop at a U.S. checkpoint in Iraq has some explaining to do regarding the various versions of the story she's been telling about what exactly happened at the checkpoint.
She claimed the shooting at the checkpoint was a deliberate ambush in which she survived a hail of bullets/300-400 bullets.
Unfortunately, the photographs appearing on the internet show it was a car, not a truck that she was in and featuring a couple of bullet holes, not anywhere as many as she claimed.
In fact, the photos are more consistent with what the U.S. soldiers were reporting. They said they used various hand signals and flashlights to signal the car, traveling at a very high speed, to stop. After that they fired warning shots and then several shots into the engine to disable it.
One website had comparison photos of Sgrena's car and Bonnie and Clyde's car, which did get pretty well shot up.
I'm sure Sgrena will now employ Geraldo Rivera's classic "Fog of War" excuse for the embellishments and outright lies in her stories of the events
