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The LA Times crosses over the line with this headline: Miscues at Roadblock in Iraq - An uncensored version of a U.S. military probe into an Italian's slaying cites lack of training, poor communication. It does indeed cite them, as the first paragraph of the story makes clear:
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.But here are the actual 'citations'.
Recent training is training. In fact, the story later explains, "they were trained for 10 days in February by troops who were leaving Iraq."
"Long after they should have been" is later defined as "long" if compared to a nanosecond: Negroponte's convoy apparently passed by the onramp shortly after 8 p.m., but because of poor communications, the troops were still in place when Calipari's car approached just before 9 p.m.
But still no mention of satellite evidence - a fact of which their editors,
having deleted it from a previous story, are well aware.
