U.S. to Probe Shooting of Wounded Iraqi

[leftchick]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53198-2004Nov16.html

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NEW YORK - The U.S. military is investigating the videotaped fatal shooting of a wounded and apparently unarmed Iraqi prisoner by a U.S. Marine in a mosque in the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, a Marine spokesman said.

The dramatic footage was taken Saturday by pool correspondent Kevin Sites of NBC television, who said three other prisoners wounded a day earlier in the mosque had also apparently been shot the next day by the Marines.


The incident played out as the Marines 3rd Battalion, 1st Regiment, returned to the unidentified Fallujah mosque Saturday. Sites was embedded with the unit.

Sites reported that a different Marine unit had come under fire from the mosque on Friday. Those Marines stormed the building, killing ten men and wounding five, Sites said. The Marines said the fighters in the mosque had been armed with rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47 rifles

[leftchick]

1. Image from the video.....

Image taken from pool video provided to the Associated Press by NBC News. A U.S. marine, left, is raising his rifle in the direction of Iraqi prisoners lying on the floor of a mosque in Fallujah, Iraq (AP Photo/NBC News, Pool)

[Englander]

3. Guardian has larger pic;

A marine points his gun towards a wounded insurgent in a mosque moments before gunfire was heard. Photograph: NBC News/AP



http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1352335,00.html

[leftchick]

4. I just found these at Yahoo...

I watched this on the BBC yesterday and it is just terribly sick.




A video grab by television pool shot by U.S. Network NBC shows a U.S. Marine pointing his assault rifle at a wounded insurgent inside a mosque just before gunfire was heard in Falluja, November 13, 2004. A television pool report by NBC said on Monday that a U.S. Marine had shot dead an unarmed and wounded Iraqi prisoner in the mosque. Photo by Pool/Reuters



In this cropped image taken from pool video provided to the Associated Press by NBC News, a U.S. marine is seen, left, raising his rifle in the direction of Iraqi prisoners lying on the floor of a mosque in Fallujah, Iraq (news - web sites) Saturday Nov. 13, 2004. The pool video was recorded Saturday as the Marines returned to an unidentified Fallujah mosque. The video, in a version aired by CNN showed the Marine raising his rifle toward the prisoners but neither NBC nor CNN showed the shooting itself. The video was blacked out but the report of the rifle could be heard. (AP Photo/NBC News, Pool

[cornermouse]

2. What they'll avoid probing.

The fact that the marine in question was apparently shot in the face the day before and why was he still in there trying to fight. I'm also sure they won't probe into the one of many psychiatrists that they brought into this mess who are supposed to keep personnel mentally stable enough to pull the trigger.

[izzie]

5. I am sure this goes on if we now have tape on one.

Nice that it has now gone world wide, Believe me the news will get the blame on this not the man that shot or the guy that is dead. And our Holy Book readers will say it is good the man is dead. Both Holy Book readers. Am. and Middle East. I have made up my mind I can not tell them apart. They are both saying they are right, doing it in Gods name and they do not seem to care who they kill. It is like living in Animal Farm.

[Florida_Geek]

6. If you can bomb and kill Canadians and walk away with a medal

killing an unarmed Iraqi probably will get you two medals :puke:

[uppityperson]

7. "Investigate the facts" means get rid of media crews?

[spanone]

8. yea, sure they will.