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It is the Rodney King incident, Iraqi style. A piece of war taken totally out of context, for ratings and to make a reporter's career. Kevin Sites, the embedded NBC reporter in Falluja has tried to pull a "Michael Moore," using an "innocent (sic)" insurgent terrorist lying dead on the floor or playing possum with the marines. One day before, an enemy body lay in a similar position with a hidden booby trap, wounding several Americans. Another group of soldiers had previously been seriously injured by an Islamic combatant, who seemingly arose from the dead with his AK-47 blazing. This...

Kevin Sites, NBC Reporter Who Photographed Marine Shooting, An Active War Correspondent POSTED: 10:39 am EST November 17, 2004 NEW YORK -- Video of a U.S. Marine shooting a wounded man in Fallujah was captured by an Internet Age journalist who often reports and photographs war stories, then posts his impressions on his own weblog. Kevin Sites, a freelancer who works part time for NBC News, was being kept under wraps by the network Tuesday as the investigation into the shooting continued. The youthful, long-haired Sites has worked for NBC, CNN and ABC News and has covered war zones in...

The Old Media does not understand why it cannot reach it's "audience" - they are continuously amazed at their falling numbers, and they do not understand why they are losing credibility and followers at an alarming rate. But in the story of Kevin Sites, the reporter who filmed - and condemned - a Marine shooting an insurgent in a Mosque, we find the answers illustrated vividly. It is a cautionary tale of writers and reporters whose only "audience" is themselves... In Kevin Sites' Blog, we find accounts of war, stories of Marines at rest, and the subtle undercurrent of identification...

It is the Rodney King incident, Iraqi style. A piece of war taken totally out of context, for ratings and to make a reporter's career. Kevin Sites, the embedded NBC reporter in Falluja has tried to pull a "Michael Moore," using an "innocent (sic)" insurgent terrorist lying dead on the floor or playing possum with the marines. One day before, an enemy body lay in a similar position with a hidden booby trap, wounding several Americans. Another group of soldiers had previously been seriously injured by an Islamic combatant, who seemingly arose from the dead with his AK-47 blazing. This...

Anti-War War Reporter Kevin Sites, the freelance journalist who filmed a Marine shooting a holy warrior playing possum in a Fallujah mosque, has displayed some of his photographs here: images against war: Kevin Sites. (Hat tip: Jean.)Meanwhile, Arab propaganda outlets like Al Jazeera recognize a goldmine of anti-American incitement when they see one, and they are replaying the Kevin Sites video on an endless loop. BAGHDAD, Nov. 16 — The killing of a wounded Iraqi by a U.S. Marine in Fallujah was termed a “tragic incident” by the U.S. military commander in Iraq on Tuesday as Arab satellite channels...

What happens when you send an anti-war activist to Iraq with our Marines? You get an ordinary wartime incident blown out of proportion and presented in such a way that a good soldier ends up accused of war crimes. One of our fighting men has come "under investigation" for shooting a terrorist who was pretending to be dead in a mosque. of course, the media is spinning this as a "shooting of a wounded, unarmed Iraqi". Fact is that this was a terrorist playing dead, hoping one of our troops would get close enough to kill, or hoping to escape...

"Friends, photographers and artists ... were invited to give their visual statement against war." -imagesagainstwar.com NBC correspondent Kevin Sites, who reported on the Fallujah mosque shooting, has photographs displayed on "Images Against War", a web site devoted to "visual statement against war". A review of the site states, "Most of the great war photographers have been against war in general, and often against the particular wars they were photographing". Was Mr. Sites acting as a unbiased journalist in the mosque, or as a "artist" against war?

I am sick to death over this once again liberal leftist scumbag movement and Media agenda to destroy this country and our Military I want them stopped now. These ppl. are a threat to our country,safety and sovereignty and they need to be stopped I am so f..king outraged I no longer know what to do with my anger. THese one sided biased Media elite liberal animals enemies of this country must be stopped and we the ppl. need to do something about them now. WHEN WE WILL THEY GET IT THRU THEIR SICK TWISTED HEADS that we are not...

Was not the reporter under the duty to hand over this tape to military authorities,under the rules of imbeds? If that's the case then strong measures should be taken against Sites. Also has Sites been removed from that Marine unit,because at this point i"m sure his presence is a distraction to the Marines and therefore endangers their lives. Sites has to be removed from that unit at the very least.

The photographer who took the picture of the Marine shooting the Iraqi in the Mosque has a belog. Follow the link above to his page. This will give you a better idea of what Kevin Sites is all about than the little you'll hear on TV. He's not an NBC employee, rather he owns his own company, Shoot FirstFilms located in Pismo Beach, Ca. and is working under contract for NBC. He does have some good photos and there is a bio of this photo journalist.

NBC News reporter Kevin Sites today declined to accept Al-Jazeera's Best News Video Award for 2004, insisting that there are many reporters who deserve the recognition, and that he just "happened to be in the right place at the right time." Mr. Sites chalked it up to "dumb luck" that he was able to record a U.S. Marine shooting a captured terrorist in the mosque which the terrorist had used as a battle station during his fight against American forces. "I'm no hero," Mr. Sites said. "The real heroes are the executives at NBC News who had the guts to...

If Kevin Sites is so concerned if the Marine shot an (a) dead terrorist (b) wounded terrorist (c) dead terrorist rigged with an IED or (d) feigning death and reaching for the hand grenade, he can put down his camera and check it out for himself. You're a marine. He's a terrorist who's vowed to fight you to the death, he is not a prisoner, he is not surrenduring, and your buddy got blown up 10mins ago from a rigged corpse. If that terrorist so much as has a knee-jerk reflex, THAT IS AN AUTOMATIC AND IMMEDIATE DEATH SENTENCE, with...