Well

In the well fortified Green Zone, this account must be part of the good news in Iraq that the MSM won't report.

"The white Envoy was travelling very slowly when it was hit by the gunfire. 'It's interesting to note there were no skid marks, which gives you an idea of how slow we were going,' she said.

The U.S. story is that the Canadian vehicle was speeding and tried to pass the U.S. convoy. Soldiers in the 'rear vehicle of the convoy noticed a vehicle speeding toward the convoy,' U.S. Marine Major Tim Keefe said yesterday from Baghdad. A soldier 'gave hand signals to stay back,' and when those were ignored he 'fired a warning burst aimed at the front of the vehicle away from the passenger compartment,' he said.

While the U.S. account portrays reckless driving that could reasonably have been interpreted as an unfolding suicide attack, Ms. Cameron's account, backed by other Canadian officials, paints an entirely different picture of trigger-happy Americans needlessly firing on a well-marked vehicle."