Interview: U.S. soldier blames reporter in Italian death

[Barrett808]

Source: Reuters

Interview: U.S. soldier blames reporter in Italian death
By Michelle Nichols

NEW YORK, May 14 (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier being tried in absentia in Rome for killing an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq said on Monday that he did nothing wrong and blamed the death on an Italian reporter who was rescued by the agent.

Washington has refused to hand over Mario Lozano, from the U.S. National Guard in New York, so he is on trial in absentia for killing Nicola Calipari as the intelligence agent escorted a newly freed Italian hostage out of the country in 2005.

Lozano was a gunner at a checkpoint on the road to Baghdad airport. He said he opened fire on the car carrying Calipari and the freed hostage, journalist Giuliana Sgrena, after its driver ignored warning shots and refused to stop.

Lozano said he blames Sgrena for the intelligence agent's death because she put herself in a situation that allowed her to be targeted by kidnappers. She was abducted as she conducted interviews outside Baghdad University and held for a month.

"Because of her I caused another family grief. It's her fault, I didn't set out to hurt this man; I was just doing my job," Lozano, who had been in Iraq for around six months at the time, told Reuters in an interview.

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[IndianaGreen]

1. Spoken like the true criminal he is!

Lozano sounds like so many of those lifers at the penitentiary that blame their troubles on their victims. What a murderous pig!

I suppose it is the Iraqi's fault we raped and pillaged their country, causing 2 million of them to flee their country and over a million deaths.

[saigon68]

8. He's No different

Than many of the social outcasts being recruited to kill in today's military

[drm604]

10. Oh absolutely it was the Iraqis fault.

They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. If they hadn't been living on top of all of that oil all this trouble could have been avoided! :sarcasm:

[anotherdrew]

2. well, we've established it as OK, so I expect Lozano to be kidnapped by Itallian agents any day now

since that's how we do things in the civilized world now.

[Selatius]

3. Even if Lozano is convicted of murder, the US government would never honor an extradition request

Lozano is as good as free.

[Monkeyman]

4. Taking lessons from Bush blame game

[Kagemusha]

5. I know nothing will ever happen to this man but.. what a moron!!

Just how stupid do you have to be to go do an interview and jab a hot poker into the collective eye of an entire country, an allied country at that, while you are being tried in absentia in a politically sensitive, emotionally charged case!?

[Charlie Brown]

6. LOL. So does he feel the same way about the three soldiers who were abducted?nt

[magellan]

7. Using Lozano's logic, all the police and firefighters who died on 9/11

...have the workers at the WTC to blame.

[IndianaGreen]

9. True! Lozano and Bin Laden are both sociopaths that blame the victims

and the world for their troubles.

[Judi Lynn]

16. Sick f#cks. This guy would have killed Sgrena if the bodyguard had not leaned across her

at the very second the sniper shot into the car.

Sure, he blames her for not catching the bullet which was meant for her. They undoubtedly have read the articles she was writing, and were aware of which publications were publishing her material. Doesn't take a genius to know they saw her as the enemy from the very first, and still do.

They're just furious she managed to not be killed.

God, they are vicious people.

[Kelvin Mace]

11. Did he just compare living in the US

with being a POW?

[ProudDad]

12. As we used to say in the Navy

"Shit rolls downhill!".

These sociopath fucks go right to the top:

"Rear Admiral Harris is adamant that the people in his care are well looked after and are enemies of the United States.

He told me they use any weapon they can - including their own urine and feces - to continue to wage war on the United States.

The suicide of three detainees, he reaffirmed to me, amounted to "asymmetrical warfare."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/5381322.stm

Aw, the poor fucking U.S. military. Those nasty "terrorists" and journalists are soooooo mean...

[sanskritwarrior]

15. Excuse me?

..............

[Judi Lynn]

17. I remember reading they saw the hunger strikes as agression against the US,

as in trying to bring negative world attention to Guantanamo. By the time you can see reality like that, it's FAR TOO LATE!

So they got busy, and started force-feeding them with previously used feeding tubes, sometimes ripped from the face of someone else close by, and inserted in the next hunger-striker without cleaning, and doing it so agressively it ripped him up seriously.

They were trying to make it so painful for the hunger-strikers to be force fed they would finally do anything to escape this new form of torture. This was also written in letters enough times that people outside finally found out.

What a legacy.

[MasonJar]

13. I bet he voted for Bush! This whole incident smells to the corridors

of the Pentagon. The airport knew these people were arriving; this was cold-blooded murder by the USA.

[skyounkin]

14. If Lozano

didn't do anything wrong then why won't he go stand trail? Chickenshitfuck. He has the courage to wear a uniform but not the courage to defend what he did when he was in that uniform? Sad.

[DinahMoeHum]

18. Lozano should never have been sent to Iraq in the first place.

And Iraq is no place for National Guard troops. They belong back home, with their equipment, to help local authorities in cases of emergencies, like Hurricane Katrina and the Greensburg, KS tornado.

:grr:

[Massachusetts]

19. Don't blame moi, my weapon made me do it.