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16.11.04

Military should get rid of embedded reporters

From NBC/Reuters/Yahoo! News:
  • A television pool report by U.S. network NBC said on Monday that a U.S. Marine had shot dead an unarmed and wounded Iraqi prisoner in a mosque in Falluja.
Do we know if this man had already killed any Marines? Or helped those who did? What was he doing in Fallujah at this time anyhow, he should have left months ago if he were interested in peace and progress.

Of course, the MSM will run with this story as a follow-up to the Abu-Ghraib non-story as they try to paint the US military as reckless and uncontrollable.

How many Marines will be killed as a result of this because they hesitate in battle wondering what the CNN camera is capturing and how Peter Jennings will mischaracterize the fog of war from his comfy chair in New York?