April 30, 2005
MAYBE 60 MPH IS 30 KPH?:
US satellite recorded checkpoint shooting, shows speed of Italian car: CBS (AFP, 4/29/05)
A US satellite reportedly recorded a checkpoint shooting in
Iraq last month, enabling investigators to reconstruct how fast a car carrying a top Italian intelligence official and a freed hostage was traveling when US troops opened fire.The report, which aired Thursday on CBS News, said US investigators concluded from the recording that the car was traveling at a speed of more than 60 miles (96 km) per hour.
Giuliana Sgrena has said the car was traveling at a normal speed of about 30 miles an hour when the soldiers opened fired, wounding her and killing Nicola Calipari, the Italian agent who had just secured her release from a month's captivity.
Darn, the communist who got the insurgents a large cash payoff seemed so credible.... Posted by Orrin Judd at April 30, 2005 2:49 PM
Nope -- as the second paragraph says, 60 mph is 96 kph.
On the other hand, 60 kph would be 36 mph. Does that help?
Posted by: old maltese at April 30, 2005 4:55 PMBritish miles or American?
Posted by: oj at April 30, 2005 5:01 PMNautical.
Posted by: ghostcat at April 30, 2005 5:17 PMActually, Sgrena has said in other interviews that the car was traveling dangerously fast, fast enough to be hydro planing over puddles and causing them to joke about crashing on the way back. It just depends on which of the many different stories Sgrena told various different audiences.
Posted by: Annoying Old Guy at April 30, 2005 9:08 PM