Mistaken U.S. attack wounds Italian journalist

[rustoffa]

Fantastic.

Where is Hamilton?

All I can ever remember is how Lance Storm would always go, "CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA!" and proceed to get the fucking shit kicked out of him by Norman Smiley.

[scorpioboy33]

Ok we are between Niagara Falls and Toronto. We are kind of a steel city kinda like Allanstown P.A.
Not sure who Lance Storm or Norman Smiley is but would love to see the pics

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by rustoffa
Norman Smiley.

Any relation to Stuart??

and dog gone it....people like me:D

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by rustoffa
Fantastic.

Where is Hamilton?

All I can ever remember is how Lance Storm would always go, "CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA!" and proceed to get the fucking shit kicked out of him by Norman Smiley.

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Not far from where I live actually. The Hamiltonians were once pissed that the Toronto Maple Leafs and Buffalo Sabres joined forces to prevent them from having an NHL team.

[scorpioboy33]

I love Buffalo!

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by scorpioboy33
I love Buffalo!

I can't stand the taste of Buffalo.

Tastes like beef rubbed in dirt, and cured in moss

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
I can't stand the taste of Buffalo.

Tastes like beef rubbed in dirt, and cured in moss

Ahhh...the taste of Buffalo:

[rustoffa]

Originally posted by scorpioboy33
We are kind of a steel city kinda like Allanstown P.A.
Not sure who Lance Storm or Norman Smiley is but would love to see the pics

Did y'all go through the depletion of coke and ore like in that Billy Joel song?

[LoungeMachine]

coke and whores????


where?


whadImiss, whadImiss?????

dammit

[rustoffa]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
I can't stand the taste of Buffalo.

Tastes like beef rubbed in dirt, and cured in moss

No shit, It ruined a pot of spaghetti of mine.

Fuckers are like, "try it, it's great....it's lean and not greasy."

I'd just as soon buy ground sirloin and not have to throw the shit out.

[rustoffa]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
coke and whores????


where?


whadImiss, whadImiss?????

dammit

No no no....I meant where he laments about shit in the Allentown song.

Shit, he may have been talking about coke and whores the way he drives x-pensive volkswagons into peoples' living rooms!

[scorpioboy33]

Originally posted by rustoffa
Did y'all go through the depletion of coke and ore like in that Billy Joel song?

naw but our once biggest steel maker almost closed but the Steel Market is very strong at this time

[LoungeMachine]

Rome tries to limit fallout from Iraq death
By Tony Barber in Rome
Published: March 7 2005 02:00 | Last updated: March 7 2005 02:00

Italy's centre-right government yesterday scrambled to contain the damage to itself and to US-Italian relations after US troops in Iraq killed an Italian secret service agent and wounded an Italian hostage just set free from her captors.







As anger and shock spread across the nation, thousands of Italians flocked to the Victor Emmanuel II marble monument in central Rome where the body of Nicola Calipari, the dead agent, lay in state.

Mr Calipari was killed by a single bullet in Baghdad last Friday as he escorted Giuliana Sgrena, a journalist who had been held hostage for a month, in a car to the airport.

The shooting triggered a diplomatic and political emergency for Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister, who defied public opinion by sending Italian troops in support of the US occupation of Iraq after the 2003 war, and whose ruling coalition faces important regional elections in Italy next month.

Politicians of all colours demanded an explanation from the US authorities for why US soldiers opened fire on Ms Sgrena's car.

Mr Berlusconi, a proudly pro-American leader, took the unusual step of summoning Mel Sembler, the US ambassador to Rome, to his office.

Mr Berlusconi will make a statement to parliament on Wednesday about the shooting, but ministers have already vowed that Italy's 3,000-strong military and police contingent will stay in Iraq.

Nevertheless, national passions were running high after Ms Sgrena, on television and in Il Manifesto, her leftwing newspaper, gave a vivid account of the incident in Baghdad.

According to Italian press reports, Ms Sgrena has contradicted US military explanations that her car was fired upon as it headed at high speed toward a check-point, a situation that draws immediate fire.

The US military said its soldiers had used hand and arm signals, flashed lights and fired warning shots to make the car stop but Ms Sgrena said she had seen no signals or lights. Washington has promised a full investigation.

Since the invasion of Iraq two years ago, the US military has undertaken several investigations into what it has described as the accidental killings of foreign reporters and media workers. Some big news organisations remain dissatisfied with the explanations.

In her account in Il Manifesto, Ms Sgrena also questioned whether the US had deliberately sought to kill her, a view that was ridiculed by Italian intelligence, according to Corriere della Sera, the country's leading paper.

The circumstances leading to Ms Sgrena's release were unclear, but Giovanni Alemanno, agriculture minister, said he thought it was probable that a ransom had been paid.

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine

Since the invasion of Iraq two years ago, the US military has undertaken several investigations into what it has described as the accidental killings of foreign reporters and media workers. Some big news organisations remain dissatisfied with the explanations.

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Isn't it refreshing and comforting to know that elsewhere in the world "some big news organizations" remain dissatisfied with official "explanations"


Unlike the lapdog US media

[rustoffa]

Maybe the CIA is just making up for lost time?

Any re-organizational effort is bound to produce guffaws.