Sgrena’s boyfriend Pier Scolari said Sgrena told him “she collected handfuls of bullets on the seats” of the car.

This doesn’t pass the smell test. Any bullet shot into the car would have either passed through the vehicle, been fragmented beyond recognition, or become imbedded into part of the car.

If she’s talking about spent casings, those would have ended up at the feet of the soldiers doing the shooting. (I assume she is not saying that the soldiers were inside the car with her.)

(Thanks to Tom Ault and other readers.)

Update: Reader Peter W. Davis writes:

Actually we know that Sgrena is lying simply because a freshly-stopped bullet is very hot.The typical military 5.56 Nato round hits with about 1000 foot pounds of kinetic energy, much of this energy turns to heat at impact. This in addition to the heat from the burning powder charge, the friction from the barrel and friction from the air.

Anyone trying to pick up a spent bullet in the few seconds they would have before the soldiers at the checkpoint had them out of the car would have second degree burns at the least, perhaps some third degree.

Kim Du Toit writes:

“Handfuls”?

“ON the seats”?

It smells, all right — and not nicely, either. Bullets shot into a car are
to be found inside the innards of the car, not rolling around on the seats.
And yes, they’d be mutilated beyond belief after passing through the car
body. No Kennedy “magic bullets” here…

If she can produce said bullets, I’ll eat my words. If she can even come up
with a contemporaneous PHOTO of the handfuls of bullets… I’ll buy you
lunch, at the restaurant of your choice, in the country of your choice.

And the spent casings, as you said, would be outside the car.

Stinks to high heaven.

Roger from Denver writes:

To paraphrase George C Scott in Dr. Strangelove, I’m beginning to smell a big fat commie rat. 300-400 rounds? From a tank? (meaning a minimum of 7.62 mm (.30 cal.)). And the car still has all its windows and no visible bullet holes (at least on those photos) in the body? Now our red reporter is talking about picking up handfulls (or is it handsfull?) of bullets from the seat. What is she talking about? The bullets (coming in at 2400 feet per second) broke through the window, pierced the steel body of the car (apparently and sadly pierced the skull of the agent) and they’re stopped cold by the fabric of the seat covers? Could she be more transparently delusional? Again to paraphrase Mr. Scott–Gee, I wish we had some of those bullet stopping seat covers for our boys. Of course, wouldn’t it be better to put the bulletstopping stuff on the outside of the car rather than underneath their lying Italian butts? Just a thought….

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