Posted on 11/21/2004 9:24:04 PM PST by Former Military Chick
unarmed and wounded Iraqi prisoner
This terrorist was NOT a prisoner!
We need to make sure these two are never embedded either. Of course, that's probably not even probable. These are the barfly reporters.
He wants to have it both ways.
We have to go around putting things into context.
Here is another incident, where the terrorist was indeed playing dead, so that was not an unreasonable assumption on the part of the Marine:
Marines shoot insurgent who was 'playing dead'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1285529/posts
The US military says marines in Fallujah have shot and killed an insurgent who engaged them as he was faking being dead, a week after footage of a marine killing an apparently unarmed and wounded Iraqi caused a stir in the region.
"Marines from the 1st Marine Division shot and killed an insurgent who while faking dead opened fire on the marines who were conducting a security and clearing patrol through the streets," a military statement said.
"Mr. Sites was so surprised that the prisoners he had seen there the day before had been attacked again that he informed a Marine lieutenant of the fact before the final shooting - the one he captured on tape - took place."
So what does he mean by that?
Site himself admits he knew about the existence of these terrorists there from the day before. Why didn't he warn the Marines????
"Inside, Mr. Sites said he was was surprised to see the wounded men from the battle the day before, now shot again."
Ollie North wrote a good article, pointing out these facts.
War crimes?
Oliver North
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ollienorth/on20041119.shtml
the correspondent who videotaped the shooting, doesn't mention the medical treatment provided to the injured enemy combatants, but he does note that four of the combatants were some of those who had been left behind from the firefight on Friday. If the NBC reporter knew that from being there the day before, why didn't he tell this new group of Marines before they rushed into the room?
None of that is included in the tape, which is now being used to raise Islamic ire at the "American invader." Why? And why did it take more than a day to learn that the Marine seen shooting on the videotape had been wounded in the face the day before if the correspondent knew that when he filed the videotape? Why didn't the original story include the fact that a Marine in the same unit had been killed 24 hours earlier while searching the booby-trapped dead body of a terrorist?
Within hours of the videotaped incident in the mosque, another Marine was killed and five others wounded by a booby-trapped body they found in a house after a gunfight. Why was this not made part of the original story? Even Amnesty International, no friend to the American armed forces, has reported that the Iraqi terrorists have illegally used white flags to lure coalition forces into ambushes. Yet this, too, is absent in the original story.
And more incidents:
Fallujah attacks expose new risks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1285557/posts
FALLUJAH, IRAQ - The white flag may be an international symbol of surrender, but in Fallujah it has become another tool of guerrilla war.
US marines on a foot patrol this weekend paid little attention to a man walking along the road and holding a white flag - a common sight as the conflict dies down and civilians pop up to scavenge for food and water.
But this time, US officers say, as the marines came by, the man dipped into an alley, returned with an AK-47 assault rifle, and sprayed the marines with bullets. Two Americans died, and others were wounded.
In a separate incident, marines were lured into an well-coordinated ambush by men with white flags who appeared to signal that they needed help. When marines got close, gunmen began firing from buildings high above.
Mister Sites should watch his six.
Who cares. How do you think the Marine feels?
One thing we need to remember is that some of those who were released from prison in Cuba have been found fighting our troops in Iraq. Either these people are going to be bandaged up and in prison for life because their is no rehabilitation for them or they can be sent to claim their 80 virgins. I think they want to claim their 80 virgins.
A Marine addresses a freelance camera man as sir?
Does Sites' account seem fishy to anyone else?
How long do we all need to sift fly poop out of ground pepper? Sites is an proven Anti-war activist sent by his America -hating employers (NBC) to aid the terrorist cause by "exposing" our soldiers inhumanity and reporting same in anti-war propaganda.
Let's boot him and them and all the rest of the "reality TV" types out of the battle zones.
The Marine then abruptly turns away and strides away, right past the fifth wounded insurgent lying next to a column. He is very much alive and peering from his blanket. He is moving, even trying to talk. But for some reason, it seems he did not pose the same apparent "danger" as the other man -- though he may have been more capable of hiding a weapon or explosive beneath his blanket.
He did not pose the same apparent "danger" as the other men because he had his hands up in the international sign of surrender. The others did not.
I'd like to know how he can be so sure. From the angle of the camera, the body of the man who is shot is blocked by the body in front of him. You can't see his hands on the video so how can Sites, looking through the camera viewfinder, attest that there was absolutely no movement?
The wounded man then tries again to talk to me in Arabic. He says, "Yesterday I was shot... please... yesterday I was shot over there -- and talked to all of you on camera -- I am one of the guys from this whole group. I gave you information.
OK, Mr. Sites so just where is THIS tape? He clearly says he talked to you and you filmed him. Where is it? What are you hiding?
He doesn't know shit from shineola......phucm !
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