Monday, November 15, 2004


Yahoo! News - NBC Says Marine Shot Dead Wounded Iraqi Prisoner
LONDON (Reuters) - A television pool report by U.S. network NBC said on Monday that a U.S. Marine had shot dead an unarmed and wounded Iraqi prisoner in a mosque in Falluja.

The Iraqi was one of five wounded prisoners left in the mosque after Marines had fought their way in on Friday and Saturday. There was no immediate comment from the Pentagon on the report.

A second group of Marines entered the mosque on Saturday after reports it had been reoccupied. Footage from the embedded television crew showed the five still in the mosque, although several appeared to be already close to death, Sites said. He said one Marine noticed one of the prisoners was still breathing.

A Marine can be heard saying on the pool footage provided to Reuters Television: "He's fucking faking he's dead. He faking he's fucking dead."

"The Marine then raises his rifle and fires into the man's head. The pictures are too graphic for us to broadcast," Sites said. No images of the shooting were shown in the footage provided to Reuters.

Chilling footage, even without the shot.

Here is a link to NBC reporter Kevin Sites blog.

I say show it. Show all of it. To hell with the AFA and all those like them who want a squeaky-clean, sanitized version of war.

Show the coffins coming home. Show the dead children in the street. Show the young men missing limbs, their lives forever changed. Show America the horror, every fucking night until we get it through our head that killing is not the answer.

When we will learn?