HOW is anyone supposed to be absolutely sure the guy leaning on the wall is not armed?
Especially when he starts moving like he's going to do something stupid?
Number two: Sites behavior is disgusting.
And since it appears that he has NOT in fact given the tape to USMC HQ before running to the MSM, it looks REALLY bad.
If I were in that soldier's shoes, I would have done the same thing.
Especially since the terrorists have been booby trapping bodies and pretending to be hurt in an effort to kill more soldiers.
Sites acted irresponsibly.
He should be ostracised at the least, his press pass turned in, and sent back on the first plane home.
I'm not arguing about the righteousness of the shooting: IMNHO, this was as open-and-shut as it gets.
Number two: Sites behavior is disgusting. And since it appears that he has NOT in fact given the tape to USMC HQ before running to the MSM, it looks REALLY bad.
Well, he did. The unit was pulled off the line because of it.
As for behavior being disgusting: fine. Since when (outside of Islamist reactions to the West) does merely "disgusting" behavior justify demands by FReepers that this journalist be murdered?
Sites acted irresponsibly.
How? By showing you that war ain't a Nintendo game?