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"...A convicted felon turns cameras on the cops, putting a balance of power, he says, back in the hands of the people...BY KEVIN SITES..."I raise my fist because I want that justice; don't get my freedom, gonna have to take my freedom." — Sherman Austin, from his song "Raise the Fist"... Sherman Austin says his own run-ins with the police led him to start Cop Watch...Citizen video has left an indelible mark on Los Angeles...The disturbing video has been viewed more than 100,000 times on YouTube and Cop Watch LA's site...Ironically, Austin's tool of choice, the Internet, is the same...

Yahoo!'s Kevin Sites recently travelled to Iran You can watch the videos of his trip to Tehran by Clicking here There it says "Iran Drug Addicts" and you can watch couple of short videos from the underground music band, youths in the mountains talking about their respect for the US and lots of other stuff At the end the reporter talks to an official in Iran.

Nothing has angered me more than Kevin Sites's cheap-shot reporting of the shooting of the terrorist in the mosque during Operation Phantom Fury (Fallujah II, November 2004). Several times now Sites has tried to explain himself while everyone can plainly see what kind of person he is. Sites was willing to play judge and jury against a Marine in the middle of a bloody battle. He sold his soul for his 15 minutes of fame. Now Sites is working for Yahoo with his "Hotzone" and again tries to wash the blood from his hands by returning to Fallujah one year...

Cactus and Bitterness Grow Where American Chopper Was Downed Posted by Kevin Sites on Sun Sep 25, 7:22 PM ET She lived here once, in a house behind this pitted dirt alleyway. But now, Maria Osman cannot bear to raise her head as she walks past. This is, after all, the place where her already difficult life slipped the last few notches into misery, the place where pain can last a dozen years without pause. The place, she says, where an American Black Hawk helicopter fell from the sky and crushed her three-year-old daughter. "There was not enough of her...

On Sept. 26th, veteran war correspondent Kevin Sites will embark on a yearlong journey as a solo journalist to cover every armed conflict in the world. Yahoo! News will bring you Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone. Meet Kevin Sites One of the world's most respected war correspondents, Kevin Sites has spent the past five years covering global war and disaster for several national TV networks. Now he joins Yahoo! News to provide a unique, multimedia perspective on some of the world's most troubled and dangerous places. A solo journalist ("SoJo"), Sites will carry a backpack of portable digital technology...

YAHOO has hired a veteran war correspondent to single-handedly report on every armed conflict on the planet. Video, audio and daily blog entries will be combined to "bring some of the world's most important, yet under-reported" stories to a website called Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone, the company said. Sites will spend a year reporting from spots deemed armed-conflict areas by the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, Yahoo said in a statement. His first reports from a war zone will be published at hotzone.yahoo.com on September 26. "This project is the most important thing I will do...

'This was a f---ing mess, man." Kevin Sites peers at the monitor in the bright Californian sunlight, trying to make out the images on the screen. But Sites doesn't really have to look. This is his film, his moment; the images on the screen ones that have come to define his life. [Barf Alert] Kevin Sites is the journalist who captured the moment when a young US army marine shot an equally young insurgent inside a mosque in Falluja in November last year. Sites' video, broadcast around the world, caused a storm. [snip] "I knew what I had right away,"...

Tin SoldierAn American Vigilante In Afghanistan, Using the Press for Profit and Glory By Mariah Blake In April 2004, a former U.S. Special Forces soldier named Jonathan Keith Idema started shopping a sizzling story to the media. He claimed terrorists in Afghanistan planned to use bomb-laden taxicabs to kill key U.S. and Afghan officials, and that he himself intended to thwart the attack. Shortly thereafter, he headed to Afghanistan, where he spent the next two months conducting a series of raids with his team, which he called Task Force Saber 7. By late June, he claimed to have captured the...

SAN DIEGO - A Marine corporal who was videotaped shooting an apparently injured and unarmed Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque last year will not face a court-martial, the Marine Corps announced Wednesday. A review of the evidence showed the Marine's actions were "consistent with the established rules of engagement and the law of armed conflict," Maj. Gen. Richard F. Natonski, commanding general of the 1st Marine Division, said in a statement. The corporal was not identified in the two-page statement issued by Camp Pendleton, the headquarters of the expeditionary force north of San Diego. In sworn statements, the corporal said...

It was a striking -- some said chilling -- moment in the battle for Iraq, captured on videotape: a wounded, un-armed Iraqi, shot to death by a U.S. Marine. CBS News has learned that military investigators conclude there is not enough evidence to formally charge that Marine. As CBS News Correspondent Kimberly Dozier reports, it happened during the bloody fight for Fallujah last fall. The Marines were engaged in bitter house-to-house combat with dug-in enemy fighters. When Marines ran into a mosque seeking the source of insurgent fire, they found several Iraqis wrapped in blankets. One Marine thought he saw...

I've been watching all the different news cast's coverage of the tsunami. On NBC tonight Kevin Sites was doing a piece in Sri Lanka. Last we heard of this idiot he was still in Falluja. Wonder when he left? Was he ordered out by the military? Or did he run with his tail tucked between his legs?!

Subject: FALLUJAH UPDATE Urban Ops best friend...D-9 bulldozers! This letter was written by a First LT in the USMC stationed in Fallujah. Subject: FALLUJAH UPDATE I hope everyone is doing well back home. Happy Thanksgiving to all!!!! We have been really busy out here lately and therefore I haven't had the opportunity to write too many updates. Sorry. As many of you know I have been involved in the Battle of Fallujah (Operation Phantom Fury) for the past few weeks. It has been the wildest experience of my time in the Marine Corps. My Battalion was the Main Effort during...

Freelance journalist Kevin Sites was just another guy trying to make his way in the business until the battle of Fallujah. While accompanying US marines into a mosque, Sites filmed a marine shooting a prostrate terrorist lying in the mosque, then crassly pronouncing him dead. As the pictures made their way around the world, millions of anti-US voices rang up angrily denouncing the Marines for committing "war crimes." Overnight, Sites became an international star. Everyone wanted to read the Left's dazzling Johnny-on-the-Spot and all "right-thinking" people pronounced him a professional upholding the highest standards of journalism. Heady stuff for a...

A United States marine now faces possible conviction and punishment for war crimes for finishing off a wounded enemy fighter in Fallujah. An act not unique and perhaps understandable in the intense and bitter fighting for the city, but one caught on film by freelance NBC news correspondent Kevin Sites and released worldwide within hours. How this anti-war activist became a pool reporter for a variety of news organizations and embedded with the military forces he despises has not been explained but casts a dark shadow of doubt on the practice of allowing reporters and film crews on the front...

A United States marine now faces possible conviction and punishment for war crimes for finishing off a wounded enemy fighter in Fallujah. An act not unique and perhaps understandable in the intense and bitter fighting for the city, but one caught on film by freelance NBC news correspondent Kevin Sites and released worldwide within hours. How this anti-war activist became a pool reporter for a variety of news organizations and embedded with the military forces he despises has not been explained but casts a dark shadow of doubt on the practice of allowing reporters and film crews on the front...

An unfortunate byproduct of George W. Bush's political strategy is that his success has depended on moving the base of the Republican Party down into a demographic that should by all rights be Democratic. That's right, I'm talking about the moron vote. This was best illustrated by that recent incident in Fallujah in which a cameraman caught on tape the shooting of an Iraqi prisoner by a U.S. Marine. The Marine apparently presumed the Iraqi was pretending to be dead for the purpose of preparing a later ambush. Now the Marine has been removed from duty and may be court-martialed....

Pg 104…to 107 The third team selected to go into the box was 585….on October 25, 2001, the weather cleared and TIGER 03’s ten Special Forces sergeants finally reached their landing zone outside Dasht-e-Qaleh, a village in the upper northeast corner near the Tajikistan border.

November 22, 2004 Release Number: 04-11-77 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE INSURGENTS FAKING DEAD FIRES ON MARINESFALLUJAH, Iraq -- Marines from the 1st Marine Division shot and killed an insurgent, who while faking dead, opened fire on the Marines that were conducting a security and clearing patrol through the streets here at approximately 3:45 p.m. on 21 November. For more information, please contact Capt Bradley Gordon, public affairs officer, 1st Marine Division, gordonbv@1mardivdm.usmc.mil -30-

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.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The NBC correspondent who filmed the fatal shooting by a Marine of an apparently injured and unarmed Iraqi by a U.S. Marine inside a Fallujah mosque has written on his Web site that the wounded man made no sudden movements before the Marine opened fire on him.Before the opening of the Nov. 8 assault on the rebel-held city, Marine commanders told infantrymen that the rules of engagement allowed for use of deadly force against men of military age deemed holding hostile intent, even if the enemy didn't fire on the Marines first.In a posting on his Web...