Liberty's Blog: Marine Shot Dead Wounded Unarmed Iraqi Prisoner on Film

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Marine Shot Dead Wounded Unarmed Iraqi Prisoner on Film

I saw the edited film on Fox News, a Marine Shot A Wounded Iraqi Prisoner It is shameful and there is no excuse. This Marine hopefully will spend a long time in prison.

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.

The report said the Marine, who had returned to duty after being shot in the face a day earlier, had been removed from the field and was being questioned by the U.S. military.

Sites said the shot prisoner "did not appear to be armed or threatening in any way."

No doubt until this point this Marine was exemplary. He was wounded and in a very tough job. No doubt that these peolpe wanted to kill him. Regardless there is no excuse. He crossed the narrow line between being a warrior and a murderer.

Strangely, I haven't seen much outrage over this, there hasn't been much blogged about it. In fact it doesn't even seem to have been widely blogged.