http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/in...pe/06rome.html
Geeze, and to think some people probably are going to blaim the soldiers for doing their jobs...
If the link doesn't work but no pictures;
Italian Reporter Arrives in Rome Amid Questions
By JASON HOROWITZ
Published: March 6, 2005
Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena arrived at Rome's Ciampino Airport on Saturday.
U.S. Fires on Car Carrying Freed Hostage
The Italian journalist was wounded in the shooting and an Italian intelligence agent was killed.
ROME, March 5 - Giuliana Sgrena arrived in Rome on Saturday, a day after American troops at a checkpoint in Baghdad fired on the car taking her to the airport following her release from kidnappers.
Ms. Sgrena, a 56-year-old journalist for Il Manifesto, a leftist Rome daily, was assisted off the plane in a wheelchair at Rome's Ciampino airport, where she was greeted by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and her relatives.
An ambulance then took her to a military clinic for on operation on her collarbone, where she was hit by shrapnel during Friday night's shooting, in which an Italian secret service agent, Nicola Calipari, was killed trying to protect her.
According to the Italian news agency ANSA, Ms. Sgrena told a friend, "The most difficult moment was when I saw the person who had saved me die in my arms."
The American military said the car carrying Ms. Sgrena and the Italian agents was speeding to the airport as it approached a checkpoint. Soldiers shot into the engine block after trying to warn the driver to stop by "by hand-and-arm signals, flashing white lights, and firing warning shots in front of the car," a statement said.
But on Saturday, some members of the Italian opposition, which has fiercely criticized the presence of Italian troops in Iraq, expressed doubt about the American version.
"I don't believe a word the Americans are saying," said Oliviero Diliberto, a Communist deputy in the lower house of Italy's Parliament. "I think there is something really dirty about all this business. Next week we will once again propose a measure to pull the troops out of Iraq."
Last month, Italy's Senate voted to approve funding to keep Italy's roughly 3,000 troops in Iraq.