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skorpion317
11-16-2004, 07:19 AM
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.

Yahoo! News (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20041116/ap_on_re_mi_ea/fallujah_prisoner_shot)

Now, I can understand people being mad about this, but all the facts have to be looked at. The Marines who came to the mosque on the 2nd day were not the same ones who treated the insurgents. They had no way of knowing that these guys were non-hostiles. On top of that, the day before, one of the guys in their unit had been killed by a booby-trapped body. I don't blame them for making sure these insurgents wouldn't be able to fight again. Of course, the media is gonna blow this out of proportion, and it's gonna turn into a witch hunt.

BlueFBird
11-16-2004, 11:13 AM
Leave it to our own news channels to trash our OWN troops. This is what the media is useless. All they care about is making a good report. Troops are dieing everyday because they are so many insurgents. how were they suposta know they werent armed....its war they are out there to fight not ask questions, i hope they shoot everyone of those ****** bastards.

BigAls87Z28
11-16-2004, 11:46 AM
I saw teh vid on TV. The Iraqi was laying on the ground with his hands up in the air and Marine had his gun pointed at him. They didnt show him shotting the Iraqi, but it wasnt something that was the Iraqi was running away...Video was running the whole time....
Sad. You put 18-25 year old kids in a situation that they never thought that they would be in, in an area where everything could be a trap or ambush. Thier friends are getting nailed with a few shots from some hit and run left and right, and everyone expects these kids to have nerves of steel.

skorpion317
11-16-2004, 12:51 PM
they said the Iraqi was pretending to be dead. obviously, they had bad memories of the day before. I probably woulda shot the insurgent too.