Posted on 11/16/2004 8:12:36 AM PST by dinok
The United Nations has called for an investigation into a series of alleged abuses in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.
Human rights official Louise Arbour said those responsible for any violations should be brought to justice.
Controversy over the Fallujah offensive was fuelled by video footage showing a US Marine shooting dead a wounded and unarmed Iraqi.
The pictures showed some marines entering the mosque on Saturday.
The marine, who has since been taken off battlefield duty, is seen standing above a figure slumped against a wall aiming his rifle at the man's body.
"He's f****** faking he's dead," the soldier is heard to shout. "He's breathing... he's f****** faking he's dead."
A shot rings out, and the words: "He is now" can be heard on the video.
US broadcaster NBC said the dead man, one of about five pictured inside the mosque, was an unarmed insurgent who had been discovered the previous day and been left to await medical attention.
The reports said the unnamed marine involved had been wounded in the face the day before the killing but had returned to duty almost immediately.
Another soldier had died moving the booby-trapped body of an insurgent.
The US military has begun an investigation into possible war crimes over the incident.
The First Marine Division said it wanted to determine whether the marine acted in self-defence, violated military law or failed to comply with the international Law of Armed Conflict.
AND THE IVORY COAST...WHERE FRENCH SOLDIERS EXECUTED (AT LEAST) 9 UNARMED PROTESTERS???
PULL OUT OF THE U.N. NOW!!!
Wait wait, Did you here the one about the MSM telling the truth! And Dan Rather with that staight face while he lies to the camera! They don't get it we all know they're full of S*IT!
Right you treat soldiers humanely. These guys are not soldiers. They have been hiding out in places of worship, taking hostages and beheading them. They are outsiders and they deserve no respect.
African and Israeli death don't matter to the UN.
If the enemy soldier was standing there with his hands up and begging to surrender, then fine, you take him prisoner. That's when killing a wounded enemy is against the law, NOT when he's laying there pretending to be dead.
"WARNING TO DEMOCRATS: THE FIRST ONE OF YOU WHO JUMPS ON THIS MARINE...THIS AMERICAN WILL DEVOTE ALL HIS TIME TO MAKING SURE YOU ARE HOUNDED FOR THE REST OF YOUR TERM AND THROWN OUT OF OFFICE ON YOUR ASS."
Ditto. But you know they will try it.
NOW WE KNOW WHY THE I.C.C. WAS A BAD IDEA.
non-American pro-Arabist European/UN/WTO/ICC Judges would call him a murderer and hang him (no wait, 'life without parole' him), for being a soldier in a war zone.
Maybe the insurgent was another Arafat: Faking he's not dead.
I've got your six.
Logged onto hht.//www.kevinsites.net/ and loved the poem
by the Viet Nam vet....a real keeper. But Sites should hang his head in shame for what he has done.
a RADICAL leftist who has NEVER BEEN ELECTED.
Always appointed.
Didn't Kerry claim to shoot some kid in the back? The marine can run for president.
And lets compare the list of of US weasels and finks and see who has more!
Mikey Moore [he alone is about 1000]
Dan Rather
John Kerry
just from memory I could list US weasels for hours.............the list goes into the millions....However as a Canadian I look at the millions who just voted for GWB. I wish this Canadian bashing would stop here...40% of Canadians are conservative, the same percentage in the US.
Yep we have some left wing goofs up here and a lib government we need to purge ourselves of [just like the Clinton days], but why write off this whole country? Canadian conservatives did not write off the US when Clinton or Carter were in the WH or every time Mikey Moore opens his mouth.
We made a huge gain in the last election and will get a conservative government next election. Unfortunatly there probably always be some US bashers up here and some Canadian bashers down there.
Gee, and Pres Bush was sooooo bad bad bad for keeping us out of that international court treaty.
Note to the UN: when you get a handle on the MASSACRES happening on the African continent we may take your advice on this one, but probably not.
In the film "Saving Private Ryan," didn't our soldiers shoot a couple of surrendering Germans after we secured Omaha Beach? I bet that happended a lot in the immediate aftermath of a battle, and that few if any soldiers were court-martialed for it. I bet POW protection only really kicks in after the dust has settled, after the POW's have been formally processed and incarcerated.
Why don't they investigate John Kerry? He claimed to have done this very thing and much worse, "on a daily basis."
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