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."
Well, maybe it is time to limit access of journalist.
Good point
The liberal elitists in the mainstream media are looking for another Abu Ghraib.
They lost the election and they still want our country to fail.
The answer is...when the America-hating lib media chews up a news cycle with one of their troop-bashing jihads, the Bush admin needs to take advantage of the opportunity and slip through parts of the hard-right agenda.
He wasn't a prisoner.
Quit thinking so much.
Why does NBC care more about Iraqi prisoners than it does about US Marines?
Probably not a really smart thing to do if you have news camera crews with you.
The Marine did the absolute right thing.
For all he knew the enemy could have a gun, grenade etc etc.
It's war people, get use to it.......
IMHO, I say let it leak out !!!
I hope that any of the "freedom fighters" still wanting to be a part of their "geehad", gets to read about it, and maybe changes their "current fighting status".....
Apparently he shot the wrong person. He should have shot the reporter. We are fighting a war here people (you idiots).
Get the fu<&1ng reporters out of the war zone.
And if that "unarmed Iraqi" was to fake that he was wounded and shoot the US soldier dead? These reporters make me laugh how they describe these sub-humans with such sympathy. This is war!
Fox showed the clip.....Im not second guessing the Marine...
Oh waaaaaaaaaaaahhh, cry me a river over this loser. I call this a small down payment on what is owed these terrorist insects for the many innocent people they've murdered, including all the beheadings, not to mention the American soldiers they've harmed who have come only seeking to make Iraq more peaceful and free. If this guy was shot in the head by this Marine, then it is nothing more than reeping what this insurgent vermin sowed. Maybe if he and the other terrorists in Iraq had used their efforts to help build a free Iraq instead of sowing violence, he'd not have a massive hole in his skull right now. So forgive me if I don't weep over a practicioner of violence suffering the natural outcome of the course he selected: a violent death.
Like clock-work, Chrissy is leading off with it..
we're better than that.
Chrissy Mathews is reporting on it now, you can tell he just loves it when our military is under fire.Communist piece of Sh*t!!
NBC correspondent Kevin Sites sucks.
Even FOX is making a big deal of this.....headlining it....likening it to U-KNOW-WHAT
Can't prosecute. Not responsible. Post traumatic stress syndrome. Gotta treat him, instead.
A day in the infirmary, coupla aspirin, he's as good as new.
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