Sgrena's medical condition is very serious. The shell that entered her body was very big and injured her lung which continues to fill with fluid. I am astonished that other journalists have not followed up on this story. The only recent info I could find was on Znet. Please go to their site and read the latest.

Troll - This article, although it does not show a map, clearly explains the road that they were on when they were ambushed. It also details the reasons why it was not an act of self defense by the soldiers.

"According to Klein, when Calipari was killed and Sgrena wounded, they were on a secured road that can only be accessed through the heavily-fortified Green Zone and is reserved exclusively for top foreign embassy and US officials. "It's a completely separate road, actually a Saddam-era road, it would seem, that allowed his vehicles to pass directly from the airport to his palace," says Klein. "And now that is the secured route between the U.S. military base at the airport and the U.S. controlled Green Zone and the U.S. embassy."

"It was a VIP road, for embassy people, not for normal people," Sgrena told Klein. "I was only able to be on that road because I was with people from the Italian embassy."

So when Calipari, the Italian security intelligence officer, picked up Sgrena from the abandoned vehicle where her captors left her, they drove directly to that road via Green Zone.

That explains why Sgrena said that when they drove to the airport she "thought we were finally safe, because the area where we were was under the control of the United States."