How many times is Giuliana Sgrena going to change her mind about what happened? Among the many versions I’ve heard so far they were speeding, they were “…not going especially fast for a situation of that type”, they were swerving to miss pot holes, they were swerving to miss concrete barriers, they were slowing down, they were completely stopped and were searched by troops with flashlights. Now she says they were travelling at “normal speed”.

A joint American-Italian investigation is due to report within a month on the shooting, but Sgrena refuses to accept that it might have been simply a blunder. “This was an ambush. No sign was given for us to stop. We were going at a normal speed and we were fired at,” she insists.

Not only that but now she claims she never was the intended target. She claims that intelligence agent Nicola Calipari was.

American and Italian authorities have branded as absurd the suggestion this was no accident but Sgrena remains undaunted: “The Americans don’t approve of the Italian policy on hostages, because of ransom payments, and the thing I want to know is whether the Americans tried to put a stop to this policy by preventing one of these operations from being completed,” she says. “The most important person on board was not me, it was Nicola. I don’t know what happened, but it’s impossible to classify this as just an accident,” she says — adding that she doesn’t give a damn whether a ransom was paid for her or not.

No Ms.Sgrena, the evil Amerikkkans didn’t intentionally kill Mr.Calipari as you so idiotically muse. The fact of the matter is your government was busy engaged in a covert operation to secure your release - an operation they neglected to inform the US of simply because they didn’t want the US to know a ransom had been paid. Your vehicle, which was travelling at a high rate of speed in a combat zone, failed to slow down or stop when ordered to do so. The troops had no idea who was in the vehicle at the time because your government didn’t tell them!