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| US satellite recorded checkpoint shooting, shows speed of Italian car: CBS |
| 2005-04-30 |
| h/t LGF A US satellite reportedly recorded a checkpoint shooting in Iraq last month, enabling investigators to reconstruct how fast a car carrying a top Italian intelligence official and a freed hostage was traveling when US troops opened fire. A little tech here and there and voila! The Commie Bitch's bullshit story totally falls apart. Gotta love it. The report, which aired Thursday on CBS News, said US investigators concluded from the recording that the car was traveling at a speed of more than 60 miles (96 km) per hour. Directly contradicting the lies. Giuliana Sgrena has said the car was traveling at a normal speed of about 30 miles an hour when the soldiers opened fired, wounding her and killing Nicola Calipari, the Italian agent who had just secured her release from a month's captivity. Lying sack of shit. US soldiers said at the time of the March 4 incident that the car approached at a high rate of speed and that they fired only after it failed to respond to hand signals, flashing bright lights and warning shots. Obviously not going to stop - so they did what they had to do. The conflicting accounts were among a number of differences that have prevented US and Italian authorities from reaching agreement on what happened. I trust the guys at the point of the spear, not lying preening communist rag writers. CBS, citing Pentagon officials, said the satellite recording enabled investigators to reconstruct the event without having to rely on the eyewitness accounts. Go ahead, Sgrena, let's see you dispute an unbiased source confirming you are a worthless lying... It said the soldiers manning the checkpoint first spotted the Italian car when it was 137 yards (meters) away. By the time they opened fire and brought the car to a halt, it was 46 yards (meters) away. CBS said that happened in less than three seconds, which meant the car had to be going over 60 miles an hour. Carry the 17 and divide by the phase of the moon and... 90 yds = 270 ft. in < 3 seconds = 90+ ft/sec 90 * 60 * 60 = 324,000 ft/hr divided by 5280 ft/mile = 61.36 MPH CBS said Italian investigators refused to accept that the Americans were justified in shooting so quickly, arguing among other things that the checkpoint was not properly marked. Bite me, Berlusconi. Thanks for nothing, you spineless politician, including the pile of cash prolly funding the current murder campaign. Iraqis should know, since they're the ones dying in large numbers. |
| Posted by:.com |
| #11 I'm a bit surprised, too, Pappy, at CBS. Their sloberfest of Sgrena was sickening. Maybe they have finally realized they can't distort and hide the truth any longer. They got hit pretty hard over Rathergate. They don't need to loose any more credibility. I can see interviewing the Commie for her 4th or 5th side of the the story but they offered no rebuttal of anything she said and treated it as gospel. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2005-04-30 7:09:04 PM |
| #10 That's due to the optical filters, Frank. ;-) |
| Posted by: rkb 2005-04-30 3:53:13 PM |
| #9 apparently they're able to spot a minuteman, but not groups of illegals |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-04-30 3:28:29 PM |
| #8 The resolution is classified, but it's pretty high. |
| Posted by: rkb 2005-04-30 3:15:14 PM |
| #7 I'm thinking more than one. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2005-04-30 3:12:48 PM |
| #6 I'm interested in the odds of a leo satellite being in the right spot.... Near the Baghdad airport? It's highly possible. A satellite in LEO orbits the earth every (very roughly) 90 minutes, and so is over any particular point for only a short while. Not impossible, just...lucky. A satellite in GEO can be stationary, of course. But that's a loooong way up. Don't know what kind of resolution those telescopes have. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2005-04-30 1:24:02 PM |
| #5 Where is the Italian secret agent car driver in all this? What is his testimony of the speed. How does it reconcile with the commie bitch's writing they were going so fast they almost lost control of the car, as well as time stamped satellite images of the car's position. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-04-30 11:42:26 AM |
| #4 I'm interested in the odds of a leo satellite being in the right spot.... Near the Baghdad airport? It's highly possible. It's nice to see CBS reporting this. Too bad they didn't have this information available when 60 Minutes did their slobber-all-over-Sgrena piece. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2005-04-30 11:22:05 AM |
| #3 I'm interested in the odds of a leo satellite being in the right spot.... maybe a UAV instead. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-04-30 11:13:20 AM |
| #2 I am also very curious if the Sat images show if the car's lights were on or not. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2005-04-30 11:01:57 AM |
| #1 The way I see it, the car would have been past the checkpoint in two more seconds if not fired upon. 60 mph is insane considering they were on a road known to have multiple checkpoints. |
| Posted by: Tom 2005-04-30 9:54:37 AM |