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  • The real story of what happened in that mosque

    11/22/2004 6:50:54 AM PST · by eternalperspective · 48 replies · 2,413+ views
    http://www.kevinsites.net/ ^ | November 21, 2004 | Kevin Sites
    Since the shooting in the Mosque, I've been haunted that I have not been able to tell you directly what I saw or explain the process by which the world came to see it as well. As you know, I'm not some war zone tourist with a camera who doesn't understand that ugly things happen in combat. I've spent most of the last five years covering global conflict. But I have never in my career been a 'gotcha' reporter -- hoping for people to commit wrongdoings so I can catch them at it.
  • I don't blame that Marine in Fallujah at all

    11/21/2004 6:25:07 PM PST · by cfhBAMA · 26 replies · 943+ views
    Calgary Sun ^ | November 21, 2004 | Ian Robinson
    Calgary Sun, November 21, 2004 I don't blame that Marine in Fallujah at all By Ian Robinson -- Calgary Sun You're a kid, probably a year or two, or even three, shy of your 25th birthday. Not a rich kid. Probably not even an upper-middle-class kid ... after all, you don't find a lot of those outside the officer corps in combat naval infantry units. You're probably not that bright; certainly not as bright as the highly educated college types lining up to condemn you. Maybe you finished high school. Maybe you didn't. The average IQ of an enlisted man...
  • Placing Shooting in Context

    11/21/2004 12:33:02 PM PST · by Osage Orange · 9 replies · 427+ views
    The Daily Oklahoman ^ | 11-21-2004 | Kathleen Parker
    By Kathleen Parker Tribune Media Services The case of the Marine shooting in Fallujah pits a young warrior in the clutch of terror and nanosecond judgment against the Monday-morning quarterbacking of theoretical second-guessers. War truly is hell. At issue is whether the shooting of a wounded, unarmed Iraqi insurgent by a young Marine during the siege of Fallujah qualifies as a war crime. On the surface, shooting anyone who is unarmed seems to fit the definition of a war crime. But if judging a domestic shooting is nuanced and complex, requiring careful analysis of circumstances and intent, surely a wartime...
  • There are Americans I love. Really

    11/21/2004 11:38:05 AM PST · by UpHereEh · 22 replies · 864+ views
    GlobeTechnology ^ | 11/20/04 | HEATHER MALLICK
    There are Americans I love. ReallyWe were spoiled for choice this week, with two hideous killings filmed in Iraq, and doubtless more to come. There was a bullet in the head for Margaret Hassan, the saintly British woman who was the director of Care International in Iraq -- she was best of British, she was -- and another bullet for a bleeding Iraqi whose name we may never know. So low have we sunk that I was relieved that Ms. Hassan was shot, not beheaded. I was so grateful not to see the shot, as I looked at that famous...
  • Media "Liberals" and Combat

    11/21/2004 11:07:20 AM PST · by CHARLITE · 10 replies · 850+ views
    GULF1.COM ^ | NOVEMBER 21, 2004 | COLONEL BOB PAPPAS, USMC (Ret)
    The episode of media recording the shooting of an enemy combatant in a fortress masquerading as a Mosque is one of the reasons why military men learn to never trust the “media.” Video footage absent the actual, complete context is analogous to engaging in sex with an aids carrier, without protection…maybe worse. Objective commentators would await the outcome of the investigation, but judging from all the prattle on the subject, it is an understatement that the “media” is awash in a preconceived bias. It is easy to second guess, Monday morning quarterback, or otherwise prejudge the actions of an individual...
  • I don't blame that Marine in Fallujah at all

    11/21/2004 7:35:58 AM PST · by Clive · 43 replies · 1,137+ views
    Calgary Sun ^ | November 21, 2004 | Ian Robinson
    You're a kid, probably a year or two, or even three, shy of your 25th birthday. Not a rich kid. Probably not even an upper-middle-class kid ... after all, you don't find a lot of those outside the officer corps in combat naval infantry units. You're probably not that bright; certainly not as bright as the highly educated college types lining up to condemn you. Maybe you finished high school. Maybe you didn't. The average IQ of an enlisted man in the United States Marine Corps is under 90. It hasn't stopped you from mastering the tools of your trade....
  • A marine's gotta do what a marine's gotta do

    11/20/2004 5:11:48 PM PST · by conservativecorner · 20 replies · 1,659+ views
    Telegraph ^ | Nov. 21, 2004 | Kevin Myers
    Not being a subscriber to al-Jazeera television, I can only imagine what it has recently been playing on its news service - but I'd go bail it was clips of the US marine shooting dead a wounded Iraqi in a mosque in Fallujah. Indeed, it is probably on a continuous loop. Needless to say - for reasons of "sensitivity" - al-Jazeera is not showing the murder of Margaret Hassan. The outcry over the killing by the marine passes all belief. Moreover, we actually know the context for the shooting. The marines thought the room in the mosque contained only dead...
  • A Double Standard Too Glaring to Ignore

    11/20/2004 8:45:53 AM PST · by Ginifer · 26 replies · 1,092+ views
    Arab News ^ | Saturday, 20, November, 2004 | Jane Novak
    What a glaring double standard. The Arab world is enraged over the shooting of a wounded, unarmed Iraqi insurgent by a uniformed US soldier. There is no similar outrage for Margaret Hassan. Is it because she was an Anglo, a woman, or because a Muslim killed her? The video of the soldier shooting is proof, we are told, of America’s evil. And the kidnapping, torture and murder of Mrs. Hassan is then proof of what? That America is evil! Muslims wouldn’t do that unless evil America forced their hand. Bombing children, defiling mosques, kidnapping civilians, executing poor workers and cleaning...
  • THE MARINE WAS DOING HIS DUTY

    11/19/2004 5:34:42 PM PST · by X-USAF · 24 replies · 1,594+ views
    Bob Lonsberry ^ | November 17, 2004 | Bob Lonsberry
    The Marine was right. He was, after all, in a war. I’m talking about that deal Saturday in Fallujah. What you’ve heard is that a United States Marine shot a wounded, unarmed enemy in the head and killed him. Some NBC guy caught the whole thing on videotape. And people have been screaming since. They’ve said that the Marine was a butcher, that he violated the Geneva Conventions, that he needs to be court-martialed, that this is an example of the evil America is doing in Iraq. There has been all sorts of crap like that. And that’s what it...
  • Envoy: We'll Deal With Marine

    11/19/2004 7:35:25 PM PST · by Former Military Chick · 53 replies · 3,155+ views
    NY News ^ | NY News
    BAGHDAD - A Marine who killed an unarmed wounded Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque "will be dealt with," the U.S. ambassador in Iraq said yesterday, as the military said it was looking into other deaths at the scene of the shooting. "No one can be happy" about the incident, Ambassador John Negroponte said, "but the important point is that the individual in question will be dealt with." Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's office said he is "very concerned" about the killing, but backed the U.S. efforts. "Unlike others, the prime minister will await the outcome of the investigation before commenting...
  • War crimes?

    11/18/2004 10:58:21 PM PST · by kattracks · 26 replies · 840+ views
    townhall.com ^ | 11/19/04 | Oliver North
    WASHINGTON, D.C. -- By now, almost everyone in the world with a television has seen the videotape that appears to show a U.S. Marine shooting a wounded Iraqi terrorist inside a mosque in Fallujah. For the record, here are the facts, because facts -- not rumors or emotions -- really are important. Here is what those who were there told me:  On Friday, Nov. 12, U.S. Marines were fired upon by terrorists armed with AK-47s, RPD machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades from a mosque and an adjacent building. The Marines returned fire, first with M-16s and 240G machine guns, and...
  • Semper Fi

    11/19/2004 12:45:55 AM PST · by Former Military Chick · 23 replies · 956+ views
    WSJ ^ | November 18, 2004 | editorial
    Some 40 Marines have just lost their lives cleaning out one of the world's worst terror dens, in Fallujah, yet all the world wants to talk about is the NBC videotape of a Marine shooting a prostrate Iraqi inside a mosque. Have we lost all sense of moral proportion? The al-Zarqawi TV network, also known as Al-Jazeera, has broadcast the tape to the Arab world, and U.S. media have also played it up. The point seems to be to conjure up images again of Abu Ghraib, further maligning the American purpose in Iraq . Never mind that the pictures don't...
  • Marine just doing his job

    11/19/2004 12:18:52 AM PST · by kattracks · 4 replies · 431+ views
    Washington Times ^ | 11/19/04 | Diana West
    In the space between the fog of war (lethal confusion, peril and instant reflexes) and the edited news break (carefully scripted and produced filler between Viagra commercials), a young Marine hangs out to dry.      Maybe I should say he hangs crucified, although that particular metaphor these days isn't just politically incorrect, it's radioactive. Then again, nothing to follow in this space is anything but more of the same. What I'm getting at, in this land of free speech and home of brave Marines, is my unequivocal belief that Marine X committed no "war crimes" in that fortified Fallujah...
  • Under Fire. The Marine has earned the benefit of the doubt.

    11/19/2004 6:01:16 AM PST · by .cnI redruM · 25 replies · 842+ views
    NRO ^ | November 19, 2004, 8:28 a.m. | Jack Dunphy
    It's impossible to know how you'll react to being shot at until it happens. And when it does happen there is little time for sober reflection on what to do next. There are only the nearly unconscious choices you make from among the conditioned responses instilled in you through training. Where is the threat? Where is my nearest cover? How clear is my shot? But training, no matter how realistic, never quite prepares you for that dreadful moment, that sudden flash in time, when you realize someone is doing his very best to kill...you. I have been blessed in that...
  • MCCAIN CRITICIZES ARAB TV STATION ON MARINE FOOTAGE

    11/19/2004 7:49:49 AM PST · by areafiftyone · 12 replies · 638+ views
    ABC15 ^ | 11/19/04
    MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- Sen. John McCain scolded an Arab television station for repeatedly airing video of a U.S. Marine killing an apparently unarmed man in Iraq but not film of a British hostage being killed by her kidnappers. "Shame on Al-Jazeera and shame on those people for doing what they did," McCain, R-Ariz., said in response to a question after a speech Thursday. Al-Jazeera was among Arab stations that aired video of the Marine shooting and killing the man in a mosque in Fallujah. The video fanned anti-American feelings throughout the Mideast, where it dominated news coverage Wednesday. Al-Jazeera...
  • What's a Soldier to do?

    11/19/2004 8:12:07 AM PST · by Zebra305 · 2 replies · 414+ views
    The Tentacle ^ | 19 November 2004 | Jason S. Grabill
    In the upright, closed off hothouses of the angryleft (which I have created as a single word), there is an uproar coming. It seems that the U.S. Marine Corps was caught killing an enemy terrorist! Yep, and they even got it on video no less. "Why this is just horrible," said Mr. Nat Nabob, leader of the left wing institute for Social Justice, Peace, Light, and Brotherhood. "We certainly can't have this. No! No! No! Americans shown killing poor, innocent, wounded terrorists just sends the wrong message. The 'Arab street' will be in an uproar. If Senator (John) Kerry had...
  • Don't Let Media Sensationalism Malign U.S. Marines Getting the Facts From Fallujah (Oliver North)

    11/19/2004 8:47:40 AM PST · by crushelits · 15 replies · 1,684+ views
    humaneventsonline.com ^ | Nov 19, 2004 | Oliver North
    By now, almost everyone in the world with a television has seen the videotape that appears to show a U.S. Marine shooting a wounded Iraqi terrorist inside a mosque in Fallujah. For the record, here are the facts--because facts--not rumors or emotions-- really are important. Here is what those who were there told me: On Friday, November 12, U.S. Marines were fired upon by terrorists armed with AK-47s, RPD machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades from a mosque and an adjacent building. The Marines returned fire, first with M-16s and 240G machine guns, and then, as they continued to take fire,...
  • Online petition for Marine

    11/19/2004 3:30:07 PM PST · by Raebie · 27 replies · 812+ views
    To: U.S. Congress Friday November 12 2004 U.S.Marines were fired upon by snipers and insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades from a mosque and an adjacent building. The Marines returned fire with tank shells and machine guns. They eventually stormed the mosque, killing 10 insurgents and wounding five others, and showing a cache of rifles and grenades for journalists. The Marines told the pool reporter that the wounded insurgents would be left behind for others to pick up and move to the rear for treatment. But Saturday, another squad of Marines found that the mosque had been reoccupied by insurgents and...
  • THE MILITARY’S RIGHT TO “NO!”

    11/18/2004 4:37:34 PM PST · by CHARLITE · 9 replies · 843+ views
    DON BENDELL.COM ^ | NOVEMBER 18, 2004 | DON BENDELL
    I am proud to say that I am a Vietnam veteran and finally have some degree of closure. It occurred on November 2nd, 2004. Like my fellow warriors, earlier this year, I was unexpectedly yanked from that deep dry well of dank dark collective shame, and thrust into the bright sunlight of political overview. Called to fight the great fight once again, we fought and indeed won, and we are now healed and strong. And so, we issue a warning to our old antagonists: Biased media outlets and liberal political strategists looking ahead already, please understand this: We Viet Nam...
  • U.S. Media Do the Terrorists' Bidding

    11/19/2004 2:42:28 PM PST · by WuzaDem · 32 replies · 1,168+ views
    FrontPage Magazine ^ | 11/19/04 | Michael Reagan
    Are the media on our side? If so, why are they doing the bidding of a bunch of murderous thugs who enjoy lopping off innocent peoples’ heads? We are once again getting the answer loud and clear: To the media, U.S. troops in Iraq are always wrong, and the enemies is usually shown, not as a terrorists, but a victims of unwarranted U.S. aggression. Consider the firestorm that erupted when a young U.S. Marine, wounded the day before, was videotaped in the act of shooting a so-called insurgent who may or may not have been armed or booby trapped, waiting...