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U.S. Marine Videotaped Shooting Dead Unarmed Iraqi

HeadlineNov 16, 2004

This news from Iraq: an NBC cameraman has caught on tape video of a US Marine shooting dead an unarmed and wounded Iraqi prisoner in a mosque in Fallujah. The NBC correspondent Kevin Sites said the Iraqi man who was killed was one of five Iraqis who had been injured after the US raided a Fallujah mosque. Another 10 Iraqis had already been killed in the raid. The Marine is heard on tape claiming the Iraqi was faking his death. A marine can be heard saying on the pool footage provided to Reuters, “He’s [expletive] faking he’s dead. He faking he’s [expletive] dead.” The marine then raises his rifle and fires into the man’s head. The Marine involved in the shooting has been removed from the field and was being questioned by the US military. The NBC correspondent on the scene said the shot prisoner “did not appear to be armed or threatening in any way”. The shooting came on the same day that another US soldier was charged with murder for the killing of an Iraqi detainee in Baghdad.

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