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The War
Profiteers - War Crimes, Kidnappings, Torture and Big Money |
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Iraq: The CNN “Fit to Kill” Video (Excerpt) |
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Background - Iraq, Autumn 2003 “[…] Information Clearing House has a video clip from a CNN Presents
segment entitled ‘Fit To Kill.’ The video clip features the slaying of a
wounded Iraqi lying prostrate on the ground ‘next to his gun.’ It is hard to
discern any weapon near the man in the video; nevertheless, he was
incapacitated and the [U.S.] marines kept firing at him. Next a bullet rips
into the doomed man’s body; it heaves one final time; the neck snaps back and
flips forward, and his body slumps deathly limp. Whoops of merriment are
plainly audible from the killers. It used to be that morality decreed that
one should ‘never hit a man when he's down.’ The inescapable conclusion is
either that this morality is no longer in effect or that these killers are
behaving immorally. […]” Excerpt from a
“Dissident Voice” article
from December 15th, 2003 |
An Iraqi insurgent lies wounded on the ground |
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External view: link file format: .wmv |
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December 15th, 2003 - Challenging the Justification
of Killing 1 news article by the
Dissident Voice Newsletter October 26th, 2003 - CNN Presents: Fit To Kill Transcript of a CNN Documentary |
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The moment of the killing |
The killer |
U.S. Marine Riddle: “That was awesome” |
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