Durka-Durka-Muhammed-Jihad!!
This is most excellent news about the Marine that put 'two in the head' to a Islamo-psycho playing possum in the fight for Fallujah that I posted about here back in November 2004
(Hat Tip: Charles at Little Green Footballs)
No Court-Martial in Iraq Mosque Shooting"...consistent with the established rules of engagement and the law of armed conflict"....you're damn right it was consistent, especially when those Islamo-psychos were playing possum and putting U.S. Marines in harm's way all the while using a religious sanctuary as a base of operations.
SAN DIEGO - A Marine corporal who was videotaped shooting an apparently injured and unarmed Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque last year will not face a court-martial, the Marine Corps announced Wednesday.
A review of the evidence showed the Marine's actions were "consistent with the established rules of engagement and the law of armed conflict," Maj. Gen. Richard F. Natonski, commanding general of the 1st Marine Division, said in a statement.
The corporal was not identified in the two-page statement issued by Camp Pendleton, the headquarters of the expeditionary force north of San Diego.
In sworn statements, the corporal said he shot three insurgents in self-defense in the mosque Nov. 13, believing they posed a threat to him and his fellow Marines, the statement said. Autopsy results showed that all three died of multiple wounds from gunshots fired from the corporal's M-16.
One of the shootings was recorded by Kevin Sites, an NBC cameraman embedded with the Marines, and the dramatic footage prompted outrage among Iraqis and an immediate investigation by the Marine Corps.
In the video, as the cameraman moved into the mosque, a Marine in the background could be heard shouting obscenities and yelling that one of the men was only pretending to be dead. The Marine then raised his rifle toward an Iraqi lying on the floor of the mosque and shot him.
The incident played out as the division's 3rd Battalion, 1st Regiment, returned to the unidentified Fallujah mosque. While Marines had secured the mosque complex on the previous day, intelligence reports indicated that the mosque had since been reoccupied by insurgents.
The Camp Pendleton statement said the corporal "could have reasonably believed that the AIF (anti-Iraq forces) shown in the videotape posed a hostile threat justifying his use of deadly force."
One hundred percent justified and the Marine is clearer.
Boo-Freakin-Yaaahhh!!!
The marine gave the order to halt in 2 languages.
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He did? The guy was
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Yogimus said:
As for knowing the guy was wounded... No he didn't. He did not know the health of the insur-gent.
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Yogimus said:
Bout time. It should have been part of the rules of engagement in the first place.
If no
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ruthie said:
C'mon Mikey...playing possum? They were already wounded the day before this event. they were su
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C'mon Mikey...playing possum? They were already wounded the day before this event. they were supposed to be picked up later in the day. there was no justification for the shooting that happened at the mosque that day. I thought the findings were bullshit.
|| Posted by ruthie, May 5, 2005 12:09 PM ||By the way, how ya doing? Hope all is well. :)
Bout time. It should have been part of the rules of engagement in the first place.
If not actively surrendering, assume they are hostile. The marine gave the order to halt in 2 languages.
|| Posted by Yogimus, May 5, 2005 08:17 PM ||As for knowing the guy was wounded... No he didn't. He did not know the health of the insur-gent. You have to plan for the worst, hope for the best.
Besides, He gets to go home to his family. And that is job 1.
(Your site blocks the word u r g e n t)
|| Posted by Yogimus, May 5, 2005 08:19 PM ||The marine gave the order to halt in 2 languages.
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He did? The guy was laying flat out on the ground, inside a mosque, why would he give an order to halt? He walked in, said "This one's still alive, he's fakin it", and shot him. You must have this confused with another incident, or.....
|| Posted by scroff, May 6, 2005 05:41 AM ||