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"The US military, who said troops fired on the speeding car after it failed to stop, has opened a full investigation.
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She said Italian officials knew her car was on the airport road and she assumed they had informed the Americans. "
So, somone forgot to make a phone call and let guards know that the good guys wee coming, the good guys assumed that the call had been made, and a speeding car came toward the roadblock with the driver showing no intent of stopping. That's what has happened when insurgents drove car bombs into roadblocks in the past, so that's what the guards assumed was ahppening. There's no conspiracy. We're not shooting our allies because their governments paid for a hostage to be released.
The simplest explanation is most likely the right one, and the simplest explanation is that the guards thought they were about to be bombed and shot at the car to stop that from happening.
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