Look folks if the U.S. Army wants someone dead as Sgrena insists we did, there would be no story here. Why? Because there would be no body leftover that’s why. No one would ever know she had been killed by anyone because the car she was in would have been reduced to nothing more than smoking rubble.

The Army would have targeted the car with a lot bigger weapons than a couple of soldiers with M-16’s. They would have used something like this:

or this:

or this.

Even assuming that the Army would be stupid enough to target someone they wanted dead with M-16’s they would have been easily able to finish the job by simply double tapping everyone in the vehicle after it stopped and burning the car afterwards.

While there may have been a ROE (Rules Of Engagement) violation here (although no one but Sgrena’s version of the event suggests there was) there is no way this was a “deliberate targeting” of Sgrena. If it had been she would be dead. End of story.

This is a clear-cut case of communication failure on someone’s part. Whether it was the Italian intelligence services or U.S. Command’s failure remains to be seen. What is not in doubt is the incredible heroism of the agent who shielded his charge with his own body and gave his life to save hers. I hate to see good men die due to negligence of command structures.