Reply #78: Why target either Calipari, Sgrena or both? [View All]

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Calipari could've been targeted if the Italians were paying ransom money to the kidnappers. The theory being that paying ransom greatly aids the "terrorists" because they get money to buy weapons and will be encouraged to kidnap even more people to get even more money to buy even more weapons and so on......

Calipari is big player in the spy world. Deception rules in that realm. There may be a dozen other reasons why a multitude of people or interests would want him dead. One can make a lot of enemies in 20+ years of cloak and dagger.

Simple rule - When a big-time spook dies a suspicious death there's a great chance it was a hit.

There are many reasons why Sgrena might have been targeted. Her general anti-war stance is one reason. Another is maybe she learned specific things about Fallujah or other war crimes that the US would rather have left unknown.

It's possible her kidnapping may have played into it. Maybe the US fears she will use the kidnapping as a platform to "aid the terrorsits" by raising awareness about conditions in Iraq. Maybe she faked her own kidnapping for propaganda purposes and the US views her as an "enemy combatant. Maybe she didn't fake but it the US thinks she did.

But hey, who knows, maybe this highly professional career intelligence officer with a world of experience in Iraq was allowing his driver to drive like a DUI suicide bomber on a LA Freeway chase while carrying the woman he spent countless hours to rescue. They barrelled into a checkpoint and Our Boys just had to fire 'em up for safety's sake.