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Kevin Sites, the freelance journalist who filmed a Marine shooting a holy warrior playing possum in a Fallujah mosque, has displayed some of his photographs here: images against war: Kevin Sites. (Hat tip: Jean.)

Meanwhile, Arab propaganda outlets like Al Jazeera recognize a goldmine of anti-American incitement when they see one, and they are replaying the Kevin Sites video on an endless loop.

BAGHDAD, Nov. 16 — The killing of a wounded Iraqi by a U.S. Marine in Fallujah was termed a “tragic incident” by the U.S. military commander in Iraq on Tuesday as Arab satellite channels replayed unedited footage of the shooting as often as every half-hour.

“It’s being investigated, and justice will be done,” Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr. said as he toured Fallujah at the end of a U.S. incursion there to root out insurgents. “That’s the way we operate. This whole operation was about the rule of law, and justice will be done.”

The incident was captured on video Saturday by Kevin Sites, a freelancer working for NBC News who is embedded with a Marine unit. The videotape shows a squad of Marines entering a mosque strewn with debris where at least five wounded Iraqis are lying against a wall. One of the Marines begins shouting obscenities, saying one of the wounded men is feigning death. He then lifts his rifle and fires.

“He’s dead now,” a Marine is heard saying. NBC said the Marine who fired the shot had been wounded the day before but had quickly returned to duty.

While U.S. networks declined to air the actual shooting, Arab networks such as al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya broadcast the entire incident, with graphics and narration illustrating the sequence of events. At times, the images were frozen. The gunshot splashed blood against the wall behind the Iraqi’s head, and the man’s body went limp

Kevin Sites and NBC News have handed the enemy their biggest propaganda victory since Abu Ghraib.

UPDATE at 11/17/04 8:36:56 am:

Correction: the person who produces Kevin Sites’ blog, Xeni Jardin, emailed to tell me that “Images Against War” used the photos linked above without permission, and included these remarks:

You should issue a correction and apology to your readers, if you take truth seriously.

And as for the remarks in the body of the post — do you think he has any control over how Al-Jazeera uses the footage? He simply witnessed somthing and reported it. That’s what journalists do.

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