LAT 0 For 3 On Sgrena Story

Today's LATimes carries today its third story on the accidental death of an Italian agent who was spiriting Italian Communist journalist Guilianna Sgrena to fredom in Iraq. And once again, the LAT has failed to note satellite evidence that disputes Sgrena's oft-publicized claim that the car carrying her was going no more than 30 miles per hour.

This article, by an LAT reporter not Reuters, instead casts doubt on the US soldiers:

A U.S. military probe into the fatal shooting of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq has found that the soldiers who opened fire had only recently been trained on how to conduct a roadblock, did not know that the Italians' car was expected along their stretch of road, and, because of a communications breakdown, were manning their irregular nighttime post long after they should have been.

How could they have been known the Italians were coming if the Italians didn't notify US forces? Irregular post? As if a roadblock isn't a roadblock? What difference does that make?

Only in the next to the last sentence does the report acknowledge of the newly released report (which included information that was supposed to be censored but slipped through) "found the soldiers did not act rashly in opening fire."

The LAT's false reporting on this story is going into the stratosphere.