msindependent
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 Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:52 am Post subject: Criminal Investigation of Marine |
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I do believe that Kevin Sites and the rest of the reporters should not be with our troops. Sites is the fool that was blogging from Iraq (giving away locations, etc.) while working for CNN. CNN shut his site down. He was also with CNN when he was captured and released. Now, he is doing damage while working for NBC.
| Quote: | BY CRAIG GORDON
WASHINGTON BUREAU
November 16, 2004
Washington - Defense officials said the U.S. military has launched a criminal investigation into an incident Saturday in southern Fallujah that a television pool report described as a Marine shooting a wounded man at point-blank range.
The incident was captured on camera by an NBC News crew traveling with Marines in Fallujah. The Marine who fired said he believed the man was "faking he's dead," according to the pool report. Military sources said that is an insurgent tactic for ambushing U.S. troops. After the shooting, another Marine says "Well, he's dead now," according to the pool report.
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is investigating whether the shooting violated any laws of war, one defense official said. The Marine has not been publicly identified.
A staff lawyer with the 1st Marine Division told NBC News that the U.S. rules of engagement authorize Marines to use force when facing a "hostile act or hostile intent," according to a transcript. NBC said in its report last night that the insurgent appeared to be unarmed and not threatening.
The details came to light yesterday with the video, plus a written report by the NBC News journalist on the scene, Kevin Sites, who witnessed the shooting. The video and Sites' report were shared with the major television networks as part of a pool arrangement through the Pentagon to allow television coverage of the attack on Fallujah.
According to NBC, the man who was shot had been wounded a day earlier after Marines came under attack from a mosque and returned fire. The following day, another group of Marines went to the mosque after reports of movement inside and found five insurgents wounded from the day before still there, NBC said. Some of those men were shot again by the second Marine unit as they entered the mosque, said NBC, which reported those shootings were also under investigation. |
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wofall164043879nov16,0,1382152.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines |
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