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[blockquote]According to the military source, who said he spoke on condition of anonymity because the incident is under investigation, U.S. soldiers had established an impromptu evening checkpoint at the entrance to the road to the airport about 90 minutes earlier and had stopped other vehicles. They knew a high-level U.S. Embassy official would be moving to the airport on that road, and their aim was to support that movement, he said.

But no specific coordination occurred between those involved in Sgrena's rescue and the military unit responsible for the checkpoint, according to the source.

The absence of advance communication between the Italians and the U.S. soldiers at the checkpoint appears to have put the occupants of the car in grave jeopardy, given what many U.S. officials describe as the military's standard practice of firing at onrushing cars from their checkpoints in Iraq.

"In my view, the main contributing factor was a lack of prior coordination with the ground unit," the source said. "If requested, we would have resourced and supported this mission very differently."[/blockquote]

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