Getting away with murder

international | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis Friday February 25, 2005 11:03 by Frothing at the mouth

U.S. Marine is CLEARED!

A US marine, captured on film killing a wounded Iraqi at point blank range during November's assault on Fallujah, will not be formally charged because of a lack of evidence, CBS News reported yesterday.

The November 13 shooting occurred during a search of a mosque in a widely broadcast incident that sparked worldwide outrage.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said it showed "utter contempt for humanity".

An embedded NBC cameraman filmed a trooper raising his rifle and shooting at point blank an apparently unarmed, wounded Iraqi slumped against amosque wall.

Although the insurgents were found to be unarmed, investigators said one of the marines believed he had seen one moving possibly for a weapon.

The rifleman was withdrawn from combat during the investigation but the graphic footage enraged many, even months after the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.

Fallujah was raided to beat key rebel enclaves ahead of January's election.