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."
Justified, if he felt threatened - perhaps by a weapon, perhaps by an IED triggered by the guy on the floor. Why is this reporter competent to judge a combat situation?
That sure looked like a pump action shotgun to me, not a rifle.
wounded insurgent, enemy combatant, no geneva conference, no uniform, no country, dressed as civilian, waging war on civilians, now with his 72 virgins - cannot satisfy press anyway, kill him or send him to Gitmo - lose/lose situation for the good guy, so kill him so he doesn't live to fight Amercans another day.
Hardball is discussing it now.
He probably thinks he's in a war and is fighting the enemy.
This Marine has experience. A for sure dead terrorist can't detonate nearby explosives.
Not now.
Yup, we are better than that. And if the soldier in question is found to have shot a wounded combatant without cause, there should be discipline.
As for the now deceased terrorist, he most certainly sowed his life to the wind when he joined up with this evil bunch and now he has indeed reaped the whirlwind.
Why did this story even get written?
So no one told the Defense department that some of these media stations might have other reasons to be along for the fight -
Someone on Fox said that the terrorist used a tactic where they would fake being dead or hide along other terrorist who were dead - then attack the forces. Perhaps this guy thought that was about to happen -
In any event - maybe it wouldn't hurt to have our troops seen by people before they go into battle after being wounded - or give them more time to recover before going back into harms way - Settle the jumps down a little -
Old Ritter is also speaking out again - is this a plan developing perhaps - The election is over - but attacks go on - in force - Big mouths all -
Only if the Marine agrees to throw away his medal, er ribbon. He can always petition for a replacement later...
I'll second this motion.
Let's move along here. War is hell!
Our guys was administering high velocity, long distance, high impact first aide.
They also burn their bodies, hang them from bridges and throw a party to their god Satan while they burn.
Any scum that commits crimes against humanity like that deserve death after all intel has been extracted of course.
Why is Fox calling this another Abu Garib?
That this terrorist wasn't dead and faking it and going to attack at any second?
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