Was the Sgrena shooting a hit?

Seems like a pretty good case can be made that it was. If so, it was as well thought through as the rest of this operation -- it has led directly to the announcement that Italy is pulling its troops from Iraq.

Al Qaeda had to kill 191 people to get Spain out of the "coalition of the willing." We are far more efficient - we pushed out Italy by killing just one guy, and it wasn't even the person we are aiming at.