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."
'Reporters' like this should be expelled by the units they're 'covering'.
This point has been made repeatedly, but there are some who can not grasp the obvious.
And most of all screw Cris Matthews!
The kid has been shot at all week, and how many times from "Holy" sites?
As long as he did not put underwear on the terrorists head.
Screw Reuters.
Because of the wounded man?
If so...all the terrorists have to do is get one to pretend to be wounded to escape any harm from the sky.
'WORMS NEED TO EAT SAME AS BUZZARDS'
"To hell with them fellas.
Buzzards need to eat, same as worms."
Effective! Didn't want the guy to suffer!
Perhaps the MSM and the demos should be careful with this Marine - it may give us the urge to demand an investigation into Kerry's war crimes.
Well done .. Give the guy a medal!!
This deserves repeating. I want them ALL DEAD!!!
The only sad angle to this story is that the terrorist Sites is still running around loose. I don't see any major difference between the media and the enemy.
With you on that one. 1. Religious building. 2. Terrorist using injured and dead bodies as booby traps.
3. Didn't surrender - chose to die.
Marine did the right thing in protecting the rest of the troops in the vicinity.
What if this guy had a grenade under him ready to kill Marines with it? He wasn't surrendering was he? He had that chance before. We all know what will happen now. Sigh. Its friggin combat. Its your life and your buddies lives on the line. How many times did this same thing happen in WWII? Get the friggin press out of there. There can be no good from it.
If they are going to charge that guy, they would have to charge all the old marines from the Pacific War. For them, the battle wasn't over until the dead had been shot again, just to be sure, and for precisely the same reason this marine did what he did.
The legalities should be easy. The witnesses will just testify that the person was, indeed, dead. No harm, no foul.
that NBC chump needs to get his ass kicked, and good. I volunteer.
Sorry, I can't access it.....is it unedited?
You need to see the video. It wasn't like you think. The "wounded" Iraqi insurgent was leaning up against a wall shoulder to shoulder with many others in what appears to be a small chamber of some kind. Our troops were stepping over legs going through the room. It did not appear to be a calm scene of post-battle assessment, the soldier's voice was panicky.
This is war and our troops have been through hell in Faluja. I am not going to 2nd guess ANY of them in this situation.
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