NBC Says Marine Shot Dead Wounded Iraqi Prisoner

Rooters via Yahho!News ^ | November 15, 2004

[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."

[fooman]

welcome to fr, troll

[Trippin]

Bugger off you idiot.

[cake_crumb]

You see a lot of murders, do you?

[daybreakcoming]

Double ZOT

[ozzymandus]

Maybe he was thinking about staying alive. Maybe he was thinking that the "dead" terrorist was going to shoot him in the back or blow him apart with a grenade.

[arkady_renko]

Nice user name. Why don't you go drink another quart of both? Then, learn to spell.

A_R

[Chewbacca]

Repeat these words:

1) Oh my God, he's coming right for us!

2) Oh my God, he's reaching for a weapon!

[Polybius]

I will tell you that this is the sickest cold blooded murder I have ever seen. We must be better than this. That poor man was no threat and this "marine" should be tried quicky and executed. This is crazy.

See Post 156

How many more U.S. Marines and soldiers do you want to see die as they get tricked by a suicide fake surrender?

In the heat of battle, you may have a second or two to decide what to do.

I am sure that you, pisanviniger, would make the correct split second opinion every time, even after you had been in combat for 5 straight days. < /sarcasm>

[cake_crumb]

"YOU WEREN'T THERE!!! "

It's pretending it was. I saw this back in the '70s, when anti-war types became so romantically involved with the fiction they spun about the Vietnam war that they pretended to have been there themselves (it's a sort of self induced Stockholm syndrome).

This creature is a plant, meant to trigger the correct Pavlovian response in the indoctrinated among us. Problam is, we hang out here because the brainwashing didn't take, and thus we don't drool at the ringing of a bell.

[Trailerpark Badass]

If true, that was a spectacularly foolish move on the part of the marine that will no doubt end up in a court martial. What could he have been thinking?

Oh, I don't know, maybe that he made have been holding a grenade or the detonator for a suicide belt that would have killed them all. I'm sure making split-second, life-or-death decisions in urban combat is no problem for you, however...

[gs-conserv]

"I'd be a bit more encouraged if this thread considered all of the facts. I don't mourn the amoral scum he shot -- but I sure do revel in our soldiers shooting wounded, unarmed people."

I agree. Let me also say that IMHO embedded reporters should not be on the front line. But they are and this soldier knew this. Although I never served in the military & been in a war zone, neither have 99% of the people who will see this video. Its a "perception" thing. The investigation will deal with only the facts and not "what ifs"...what if he was playing dead...what if he was booby trapped. I, like most Americans, can not begin to imagine what our soldiers are going thru...while we live our "cushy" life styles. I think our troops are doing a fantastic job, and may God continue to be with them & especially with this particular Marine.

[Casloy]

Too bad, in the heat of battle bad things happen. I doubt the Marine did it intentionally and if the stress of battle made him do it, then it's just another casualty of war. Those Marines are in there getting killed and wounded for us and as far as I am concerned they get absolutely every benefit of the doubt.

[Txsleuth]

Hannity and Colmes is going to have the video -- They are also going to have on Ollie North to talk about it.

[AMDG&BVMH]

point taken . . .

[JLAGRAYFOX]

See folks, the clear and hateful face of the current traitor/treason Democrat Party. Actually, his comments are not worth one word of rebuttal. You are a total idiot!!! Would love to see this person getting his butt shot at day after day, and fighting from street to street, and house to house. Then let's see if confronted with an unknown situation, what "pisanviniger" would do. Probably pee in his diapers!!! Nothing like a low life Demcrat "traitor" Monday morning quarterbacking without having all the facts! Now you see why I say the crrent "Treason" Democrat Party must be wiped from the face of the earth at the ballot box!!!

[cake_crumb]

I really wanted it to answer the question of whether it sees a lot of murders.

[rodguy911]

Ollie North will explain what war is to Allan Colmes.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

MSNBC and Chris Matthews side with the terrorists!!!

[RGSpincich]

Who's side are they on.

Any side but America's.

[SeaBiscuit]

war is life and death, split seconds count, I would hate to think this BS combined with the biased msm embeds might cause one of our troops to hesitate for even a split second and forgo his battle instincts which could result in his or more american deaths.

give the marine a medal.

give the pool reporter a boot in the ass.