The Interocitor

I'd have shot him, too

Glenn links to a Powerline post about the Marine who shot a "prisoner" in Iraq, and maybe it's silly for me to link to it too, but given the mainstream media's aversion to facts when it comes to our side in Iraq, I think that every blogger who cares about fair reporting should link to this, if only for Google's sake. Excerpt:

A young Marine and his fire team cautiously enter a room just recently filled with insurgents armed with AK-47's and RPG's. There are three dead, another wailing in pain. The insugent can be heard saying, "Mister, mister! Diktoor, diktoor(doctor)!" He is badly wounded. Suddenly, he pulls from under his bloody clothes a grenade, without the pin. The explosion rocks the room, killing one Marine, wounding the others. The young Marine catches shrapnel in the face.

The next day, same Marine, same type of situation, a different story. The young Marine and his cover man enter a room with two wounded insurgents. One lies on the floor in puddle of blood, another against the wall. A reporter and his camera survey the wreckage inside, and in the background can be heard the voice of a Marine, "He's moving, he's moving!"

The pop of a rifle is heard, and the insurgent against the wall is now dead. Minutes, hours later, the scene is aired on national television, and the Marine is being held for commiting a war crime. Unlawful killing.

Update: Once again, blogs are leading the MSM in actual reporting. I'll be interested to see how deep in the Times their eventual story on this is. My bet is page 26 on Saturday.

Update 2: slight edit to put quotes around the word "prisoner" as his status was wounded and presumed dead, rather than "surrendered".

Update 3: The Wall Street Journal mentions the above report in an editorial called "Semper Fi"

Posted by Kevin Murphy at November 17, 2004 06:07 PM | TrackBack