A hellish blizzard, even.

Spanish judge wants to question U.S. troops Iraq (link)
Jun 7, 2005 — By Daniel Trotta

MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish judge wants to question three American soldiers as suspects in the death of a Spanish cameraman who was killed when a U.S. tank fired on a hotel housing foreign journalists during the 2003 assault on Baghdad.

The Pentagon has exonerated the U.S. soldiers from any blame, but High Court Judge Santiago Pedraz wants to question the three who were in the tank, a court official said on Tuesday.

"It would be a very, very cold day in hell before that would ever happen," said a State Department official, who asked not to be named. "I just cannot imagine how any U.S. soldier can be subject to some kind of foreign proceeding for criminal liability when he is in a tank in a war zone as part of an international coalition."

Let me repeat the wise State Department man's statement in case the world misread or possibly overlooked it:

"It would be a very, very cold day in hell before that would ever happen,"

Thank you.

That is all.