Wholesale executions in Iraq

[ShaneGR]

I'm not really sure how many different provisions of the Geneva Convention we're managing to disregard in Iraq, but apparently we're just ignoring the part about humane treatment of prisoners. We don't even bother to abuse them (Abu Gahrab) anymore, we just kill them.


In this 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 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. The bodies in the foreground are other Iraqi prisoners. (AP Photo/NBC News, Pool)

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20041116/D86CPCSG0.html

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.


The Marines had treated the wounded, he reported, left them behind and continued on Friday with their drive to retake the city from insurgents who have been battling U.S.-led occupation forces in Iraq with increasing ferocity and violence in recent months.

The same five men were still in the mosque on Saturday, Sites reported.

On the video, as the camera moved into the mosque during the Saturday incident, a Marine can be heard shouting obscenities in the background, yelling that one of the men was only pretending to be dead.

The video then showed a Marine raising his rifle toward a prisoner lying on the floor of the mosque. The video shown by NBC and provided to the network pool was blacked out at that point and did not show the bullet hitting the man. But a rifle shot could be heard.

[scarface2004]

1. they learned it from this guy!!

[OneBlueSky]

2. I have no doubt that this has been going on since . . .

the first day we invaded that country . . . these are, after all, only brown-skinned Iraqis . . . which means they don't count, as far and BushCo is concerned . . . I SO hate this "war" and everything about it! . . .

[Bonescrat]

3. Here's a powerful website...

you may or may not have seen.

http://fallujapictures.blogspot.com/

[maxudargo]

4. Ok, I'm trying to figure out where you got the "wholesale" part...

Seems like just one "execution" to me.

And it seems a little weird to me that out of everything that has happened in the last week in Fallujah, this is going to be the thing everybody gets worked up about.

Was everybody under the impression things like this don't happen in war? Desensitized men do ugly things to the enemy in situations like the one described. As far as I can tell, it has always been so. Just happened to be a camera there this time.

[drdtroit]

5. Those treasonous cameras again! n/t

[Fear]

6. The US should sign the ICC

Or these soldiers are gonna get away with their crimes again (abu ghraib was / is a joke concidering the punishments they received)...or the US will treat this 'incident' like something that never happened again.

This was all sooooo pre-planned.

http://www.icc-cpi.int/home.html&l=en


more on this topic btw:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=992773&mesg_id=993481