Something doesn't jibe...

...between, on one hand, the Italian government's and Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena's description of the shooting which killed one of her rescuers at a checkpoint, and on the other hand, the hard evidence. Hard evidence being the car as a shown in AP photos.

In a detailed reconstruction of the incident presented to Parliament, Fini said the troops focused a searchlight on the car and immediately began firing for 10 or 20 seconds.Click here: Italian View of Iraq Shooting at Odds With U.S.: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Also:

A Humvee appeared, and suddenly the car carrying her came under fire. "It rained bullets. We didn't have any way of knowing where they were coming from. They fired for a few minutes. Click here: SPIEGEL's Daily Take: Italian Hostage Sgrena: "It Rained Bullets" - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Ignoring the discrepancy in time- seconds vs a few minutes- anyone under fire would likely feel like a few seconds are minutes- think of multiple soldiers firing automatic weapons at a car, then look at the AP photos: Click here: Yahoo! News - World Photos - AP and Click here: Yahoo! News - World Photos - AP

If US soldiers fired at that thing for 10 seconds they should all get desk jobs, because they can't hit anything they shoot at. Looks like one hole in the windshield (under the windshield wiper), one in the left front tire, and maybe the driver's wndow shot out- or maybe it's unrolled. Hard to tell.

In any case, we are unlikely to ever know what really happened, because there is a lot of tail covering going on, likely by Sgrena, the Italian government, and very possibly the US. Still, hard evidence does speak. Also- she made it clear before she was captured that she is staunchly anti-American: she claimed to another reporter that she was immune from kidnapping for that very reason.