Posted on 11/16/2004 11:34:33 AM PST by finnman69
A copy of the video showing a US soldier shooting an injured Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque has been posted by jihadis on the Ansar message board.
In the video you can see the soldier yelling "He's [expletive] faking it, he's [expletive] faking it", then he shoots the soldier.
It is important to keep in perspective that there have been other incidents in Fallujah in recent days where terrorists have faked injuries and then attacked coalition soldiers.
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/Video%202.rm
The guy who knows the internationally flippin' recognized gesture for SURRENDER seems to have lived thru this lil' "encounter".
Q: What do you call a Marine killing an injured Iraqi terrorist?
A: A start
I dare the left to make a deal of this. If they thought they lost their a$$ last election the backlash of jumping on this Marine would haunt them for years
It didn't change my mind. The guy did what his combat-honed instincts told him to. That's what combat is about.
The Monday morning quarterbacks can pound sand.
I saw the uncut video yesterday and confirm what you posted. IIRC, the enemy terrorist (let's call them what they are - soldier is way too dignified for these bast@#ds)who was shot was lying underneath the window on the right side of the frame. The Marine doesnot approach too close and he calls out to his comrades that he (the terrorist)is faking and that he can see him breathing. Then he shoots. Once, IIRC.
But the video clip that is playing today, the scene shifts to the center of the room and the the Marine is directly over the supposed victim (muzzle about a foot from his head) near some sort of support post. (Was this the surrendering man who was NOT shot?) There is just the "he's faking" comment by the Marine and then multiple reports of the rifle.
Has this video been doctored? It would be pretty easy to lift the audio from the actual shooting and slide it to the images of surrendering terrorist to make it appear as if the Marine shot a person who was clearly surrendering. There isn't alot of detail in the footage other than gross shapes so you have to impute everything from the audio track.
If it was doctored, by whom? The reporter? Or do we have another "Memogate," with some left wing MSM producer/editor "enhancing" the news value of the images.
God help MSM if this video has been doctored.
Our Soldiers don't need to worry about how things look.
I've confidence this is justified and there are measures in place for those who 'go off' if that's the case. Afterall, they take care of each other. That's good enough for me.
God Bless Our Soldiers.
There is a cut in this version, at :43 seconds.
I cant even tell what the hell is going on...someone please care to detail it.
I see nobody shooting anyone here.
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There is real mischief at work in the media spin on this incident.
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Bump for later reading.
``No reason we should act according to the Geneva Conventions...I don't care what happens to any Americans taken prisoner! </sarc>``
If we ever go to war with France or England I see your point. We already know what ME countries do to our soldiers caught as prisonsers. They torture and execute them.
So...we should have cut off his head? Is that what you are saying?
Did some terrorist group become a signatory of the geneva accords when I wasn't looking?
I think our military is handling this just right.
1. Pull the Marine in question out of the battle pending investigation. (After all, this guy was reported to have been injured yesterday, and is wound pretty tight right now. Give him some time off to decompress.)
2. Fully investigate the incident. (Again, this is as much a courtesy to our guy -- if the shooting was justified -- as to the dead combatant -- if it was not. If it was justified, our guy needs to get exonerated. If not, he needs to be punished.)
3. Take appropriate disciplinary action. (Based on what I have heard, this seems to fall within the scope of a legal kill. So, appropriate disciplinary action is publicizing that finding and returning the kid to his unit.)
We need to let the military do its thing in this one. My bet is that they will be fairer than either the press or a civilian court.
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