Let's think about this. An unmarked vehicle speeding toward a security checkpoint on the primary road to the Baghdad International Airport. Hmmm, sounds fishy. Flag them down. Stand in their way. Wait, they're not stopping! Light 'em up! Couple of shots into the engine block to stop the vehicle ought to do.

Results: one dead Italian intelligence agent, one wounded Italian journalist. Wait a minute! Where did all of these Italians come from? Why didn't they stop for the checkpoint? Poor communications.

And now, the Italian journalist (who reports forItaly's Communist daily, Il Manifesto) blames the U.S. What's up with dat?