This post regarding the kidnapping and release of an Italian journalist won us our first link from the great
UPDATE:
After doing a google search on "Guiliana Sgrena, kidnap, hoax" I only found five references. However
The Jawa Report seems to have been in front on this idea with posts going back to mid-February. I think we might be onto something here...
Check out some of Jawa Report's questions about this:
- Doesn't this whole incident seem more than a little odd?
- Sgena was kidnapped by her admitted friends in Iraq.
- She was kidnapped while on the phone with another journalist.
- A tape was released of her begging Italy to cave to the terrorists demands of pulling Italian troops out of Iraq the day before the Italian Senate was to vote on that very issue.
- On the tape Sgrena appears to tell the 'terrorist' holding the camera to stop. He follows her order as if she is directing.
- The tape came exactly two-weeks after she was captured.
- One month to the day after her abduction she is released.
- On the day of her release her car speeds toward a US checkpoint, fails to stop when ordered, fails to heed warning shots, and the car is ultimately fired upon.
In the end, who looks like the bad guys? The terrorists? The jihadis? The 'insurgents'? No, the US.
Read the whole blog and you'll see there are a lot of questions on this going all the way back to the abduction itself, not just the shooting.
UPDATE #2
The great Michelle Malkin is on this too. This means there's GOT to be something to this.