Reporter survives likely assassination bid by US

by Kathy McMahon - U.S. forces have fired at a car carrying Italian reporter Giuliana Sgrena shortly after her liberation, killing one Italian intelligence agent and wounding two others. If the Italian intelligence agent who died shielding Sgrena had not courageously given his life, the outcome would have made it look like she had been the primary target of a planned ambush. Which is precisely the conclusion many will reach. Especially those skeptical of mainstream media coverage on this spate of suspicious kidnappings in Iraq.