Another picture. Take a good look at this and tell me what you see.
What you see is a U.S. Marine shooting and killing a wounded, unarmed insurgent prisoner, in a Fallujah mosque.
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.
… The pool report by NBC correspondent Kevin Sites said the mosque had been used by insurgents to attack U.S. forces, who stormed it and an adjacent building, killing 10 militants and wounding the five.
Sites said the wounded had been left in the mosque for others to pick up and move to the rear for treatment. No reason was given why that had not happened.
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.
I’ll say it again. When the dust clears and the war in Iraq is over, Fallujah will be America’s shame.
Just remember that some of these GI’s buddies were in a similiar situation a couple of days before. One soldier was killed and five wounded when an insurgent that faked being dead blew himself up… I think it’s difficult to sit here and judge how these soldiers perform…I don’t think we can comprehend the stress and pressure the soldiers are experiencing when running around in the streets of Fallujah.
…by the way…Most of the hostages who have been decapitated, tortured etc. were killed by terrorists with “bases” in Fallaujah. 3 days ago a slaughterhal for hostages were found and the body of a female hostage was found as well…arms and legs had been cut of.
For the record…I’m against the war in general, but now they’re there they have do get the situation stabilized….Cleaning out Fallujah is part of it.