{"id":794,"date":"2005-05-05T23:48:43","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T04:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=794"},"modified":"2005-05-05T23:49:59","modified_gmt":"2005-05-06T04:49:59","slug":"marine-cleared-of-mosque-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"Marine Cleared of Mosque Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2005\/05\/05\/usoldier.xml&#038;sSheet=\/portal\/2005\/05\/05\/ixportaltop.html\">justified act<\/a>, as it should be.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An American soldier who was caught on film shooting an unarmed Iraqi man lying still inside a mosque during an attack on Fallujah last year has been cleared of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>The unnamed marine was cleared by investigators who said he was acting in self-defence.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting, captured by news channel NBC, took place during a fierce street battle in in Fallujah at the beginning of November last year.<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers had been warned that insurgents could fake death to lure them into traps.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the soldier said that the man on the ground had moved. He then shouted out before firing at the man.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the marine is also said to have shot three other unarmed insurgents inside the mosque.<\/p>\n<p>Another marine is still under investigation for a separate shooting inside the mosque where forces discovered a large cache of weapons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These are the actions that are forced upon our troops by the tactics of our enemy.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s a shame this video ever saw the light of day, for all the damage it caused.  This non-story carried far more resonance in the American and global media than the Fallujah campaign itself, one of the most spectacular examples of urban assault in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A justified act, as it should be. An American soldier who was caught on film shooting an unarmed Iraqi man lying still inside a mosque during an attack on Fallujah last year has been cleared of any wrongdoing. The unnamed marine was cleared by investigators who said he was acting in self-defence. The shooting, captured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-middle-east","category-military","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}