More random thoughts..
I find it very hard to believe that a gaggle of Marines assigned to a check-point would be put incharge of an assination. Trigger happy? Perhaps. Mistake? Perhaps. Plot? Perhaps. Will we ever know the 'real story'? Doubtful.
Ya. They were traveling the most dangerous road in Iraq. So do other vehicles who stop at the checkpoint. I'm going out on a limb here that it's common knowledge if you don't stop at a checkpoint or slow down by a certain point your vehicle will be shot at.
Is it possible the bullet bounced off something and hit the guy? Is it possible that the car hit a bump at the same moment the shot was fired and it hit the guy? It's so easy to blame either side when we don't know the full story. And it's doubtful we ever will. All reports on this will either be biased towards the woman or biased towards us.
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Seems it would be more convienient and easier to make sure that her plane had "engine trouble" or was targeted by an "insurgent with a modified RPG" on the way out of the country. Or better yet, why not hit the car with an RPG before it made it close to the checkpoint, something more we could blame on insurgents.
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If this was some sort of 'black-ops' I think they would be a tad more creative then to do an assination attempt this way. And by this way I mean the shooting at the checkpoint.