Posted on 11/15/2004 3:56:58 PM PST by Kaslin
LONDON (Reuters) - A television pool report by U.S. network NBC said on Monday that a U.S. Marine had shot dead an unarmed and wounded Iraqi prisoner in a mosque in Falluja.
The Iraqi was one of five wounded prisoners left in the mosque after Marines had fought their way in on Friday and Saturday. There was no immediate comment from the Pentagon (news - web sites) on the report.
U.S. forces launched an offensive one week ago on Falluja, and have gained overall control of the formerly rebel-held city, although scattered resistance remains.
The pool report by NBC correspondent Kevin Sites said the mosque had been used by insurgents to attack U.S. forces, who stormed it and an adjacent building, killing 10 militants and wounding the five.
Sites said the wounded had been left in the mosque for others to pick up and move to the rear for treatment. No reason was given why that had not happened.
A second group of Marines entered the mosque on Saturday after reports it had been reoccupied. Footage from the embedded television crew showed the five still in the mosque, although several appeared to be already close to death, Sites said.
He said one Marine noticed one of the prisoners was still breathing.
A Marine can be heard saying on the pool footage provided to Reuters Television: "He's fucking faking he's dead. He faking he's fucking dead."
"The Marine then raises his rifle and fires into the man's head. The pictures are too graphic for us to broadcast," Sites said. No images of the shooting were shown in the footage provided to Reuters.
The report said the Marine, who had returned to duty after being shot in the face a day earlier, had been removed from the field and was being questioned by the U.S. military.
Sites said the shot prisoner "did not appear to be armed or threatening in any way."
I would withhold judgment until we find out the immediacy of the event and action, and all the facts.
Sigh.
Fox is getting as bad as the rest of the MSM, and I'm furious too. The MSM is as much our enemy as the terrorists.
Wel, some have pointed out here, that such summary executions are lawful so why get so exercised about their calling a spade a spade?
I saw the video.
The guy looked like he was playing possum. No indication he was wounded. He wasn't a prisoner. He was playing dead among the dead. He could have been hiding a weapon or a bomb waiting for the right moment. As soon as the marines turned their back, who knows what would have happened.
The guy could have surrendered but he decided to play dead....now he is dead.
Lets keep this thread alive to make sure they don't burn this warrior in the name of political correctness.
I don't think the media is going to get anywhere with beating this dead horse, no matter how hard they try. The election is over and the peoples have spoken that they support our troops. Just ask the Malboro Marine. LOL
I suppose the question becomes whether the insurgent in question was actually seriously wounded to the point that he could not speak up and identify himself as being alive (which would get him medical care from the marines) or whether he was in fact "faking" in order to carry out an attack on the unsuspecting marines.
Yeah. So?
Maybe, if German troops had followed the Marine's SOP in the WWII Pacific Island campaigns of shooting every "dead" Jap they found to make sure, Stalingrad would have had a different outcome, too.
No mercy. No prisoners. No more live "insurgents".
Screw the UN; screw Geneva; screw all ideas of "civilized" warfare against the uncivilized.
One shot, one kill. Sounds like an efficient Marine.
These terrorists are killing machines. You stop a killing maching by killing it.
Say hello to Allah, scumbag.
Remember the first guy to die fighting terrorism in Afghanistan after 9/11? It was Johnny "Mike" Spann. (think I got name right - corrections appreciated).
He died because a wounded Taliban detainees grabbed a grenade off a Northern Alliance soldier and blew himself and Spann up. The Taliban were then able to retake to fort and a 10 day long battle ensued with many good guys killed.
In war - if you are in pitched battle, and there is not a way to neutralize a wounded enemy, you have to terminate with extreme prejudice to protect yourself and your fellow soldiers.
It's a bunch of sheeeeeeeet.....these charges need to be countered by the TOP......IMMEDIATELY....
Bullets fly all the time over there. How do you know where he got the wound (which must have been superficial or he wouldn't be there, he would be in military hospital)
Defend it from free elections - yeah right.
Barfing over Crissy Matthews' horsesh!t.
The "insurgents" are BAD GUYS. They have kidnapped civilians and murdered them (included a gruesome attack on a blonde woman, suspected of being one of two known kidnapped women). The Geneva Conventions prohibit such practices.
If the men are "defending their country" they why did they come from Sudan and elsewhere? They are striking out territory in Iraq, not speaking out FOR Iraqis.
Iraqis are fighting with us against the terrorists.
If democracy is so wonderful, why doesn't the MSM stand WITH us to ensure that Iraqis can vote for the candidates of their choice? If the "insurgents" are Iraqis, they should be eligible candidates.
These are brutes and thugs and killing is what they deserve as their Satanic death cult prohibits them from converting to another faith.
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