then they cut to the announcer and they story was told yeah
Effete Liberal Media Values:
Reporters are bending over backwards to explain and dismiss apparent executions of Iraqis in Fallujah, including this latest one, committed by a US Marine and caught on videotape by an NBC News crew.
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Advocates of looser rules of engagement have argued all day that one must leave open the possibility that the Marine thought the wounded man was actually a booby-trapped corpse, as this same unit reportedly discovered the previous day (the hard way). The rigging of corpses is a fairly common guerilla warfare tactic, and Sites dutifully reported that "possibility" in order to cast doubt on what his videotape actually shows.
But, if that were the fear, seeing that the prone man was in fact alive would, in such a case, have been cause for relief, not urgent suspicion. I haven't seen that logic employed in any commentary on the situation, though it seems self-evident. I just searched somewhat extensively and could find no accounts of a living mujahideen booby-trapping his own body in Fallujah.
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