Posted on 11/17/2004 5:23:45 PM PST by ChristianDefender
Kevin Sites, the NBC cameraman who shot video of the controversial shooting of a Fallujah insurgent by a U.S. Marine, is an anti-war activist whose photographs of Iraqi prisoners are featured on at least one anti-war website.
Sites was embedded with the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment in Fallujah when he shot the video of the Marine shooting an injured enemy fighter in a mosque. From the dialogue on the footage, it appeared the Marines were unsure if the insurgent was dead or faking death. Some fighters in Iraq have feigned death only to pull out a weapon or blow themselves up to kill Americans.
The U.S. military is investigating the incident to determine what happened and what, if any, punitive action should be taken against the Marine.
Sites was serving as a pool cameraman, giving access to the video to many networks.
Images Against War is one website where Sites' photography appears, giving two separate pages to his work. One of the pages, labeled "Kevin Sites 2," features photos of captured Iraqis with one caption saying detainees on a truck were enduring "a long ride into uncertainty." Most of the photos featured on the site engender sympathy toward U.S. enemy fighters and antipathy toward American military personnel.
Images Against War, which is based in Germany, has a comments page where posters have lashed out at Sites.
"The kindest things I can say about you is that you are a traitor and a terrorist sympathizer," writes one poster. "I would say I feel pity for you, but that would be a lie. All I feel for you is disgust. … Shame on you. I look forward to the day that the betrayal of this Marine haunts your every moment."
Dennis Karr posted: "Kevin Sites has to be the lowest of the low, a traitor for sure, only breathing right now because of our brave soldiers whom he surely hates."
Wrote yet another: "Good luck riding along with our troops now ... you're going to need it."
Sites also has his own blog. Here is part of his entry for Nov. 10, when he was accompanying Marines on their assault on Fallujah:
" The Marines I'm embedded with are nearly ebullient. This looks to be a cakewalk. One jokes they'll be sipping 'pina coladas by the Euphrates River by fifteen-hundred.'"
In his account, Sites describes dead Iraqis in detail and says the Marines are "operating with liberal rules of engagement."
His site includes a disclaimer explaining he is a freelance journalist on assignment for NBC, "but this site is a personal website not affiliated with or funded by NBC News."
Sites' bio says he was captured by Iraqi Fedayeen militia outside Tikrit while traveling with Kurdish fighters and spent four hours in captivity before being released.
Could it be that Sites has been collaborating with the enemy all along?
His activities in Iraq past and present should be investigated by the US gov't.
***This guy looks like a tool. I bet he has that embedded British accent too.***
...that face is not something we should trust if we are soldiers... sorry for judging...
"I simply don't understand why he was embedded with the Marines, witnessed all the action, and took a very selective video tape which was promptly released and al-Jezaara has been showing it."
Along with FOX, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC
They are getting even because Kerry lost.
So the big 5 liberal media are targeting our troops.
Just ask yourself, why does FOX, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC show this over and over.
Then ask why did they never ask Kerry why he never signed Form 180.
See a pattern?
***...I'm pretty sure that phrase originally had a more figurative and spiritual connotation. ;-)***
:-)..its a hymn book song we normally sing in the church, that for me refers to our spiritual battles as christian individuals...with a guaranteed victory..
but we cannot deny the fact that our men belongs to the authority or government/leadership annointed by God... and im sure many of them are christians who are there to imposed justice and righteousness as God has called them to... they deserve the words..
Onward Christian Soldiers...
ping..
ORielly has been defending the young man for three nights now. Hannity defended him as well I'm not sure if anyone else has.
I sure do!
End embedded reporters in combat zones now.
Arioch7 out.
Kevin Sikes could not make a pimple on this Marine's butt!
Traitor NBC photographer email addresses:
kevinsites@hotmail.com
kevin@kevinsites.net
http://www.kevinsites.net/
you mean the pattern of liberal liars, sucking, day in and day out?
Well - how about spreading the word some more - like to one of the good guys at Fox - and expose - perhaps - some bias -
(O'Reilly is really going to the bat for our guy - perhaps he should hear this bit of news)
Scorn is what this reporter guy deserves - and perhaps a new nation to call home - like France - they'd love his type -
just a thought -
As usual the worst part is that Sites tape will be used for endless propaganda loops in the Arab media and will give more hate America themes for foreign leftists. If his tape was shown only in the US I wouldn't care. Muslims and leftists will try to make another Abu Graibe from this.
When giving out the email of the guy -
Should ask everyone to state in as best a manner as possible any mail to him - or else the media will highlight only the real nasty ones - and discredit everyone - that is the way they do it -
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