Marine shown on US networks shooting wounded man in Fallujah mosque

0 Comments | AFP, November, 2004

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Several US televison networks aired footage of members of a US marine unit entering a mosque in Fallujah before one marine shot an unarmed, wounded man in the head as he lay prone aganst a wall.

Televisions networks said the marine who killed the wounded man had been detained and could face prosecution.

The reports said the unnamed marine had been wounded in the face the day before the killing but had returned to duty almost immediately.

CBS News showed a still photo from the film depicting the marine standing above the slumped figure aiming his rifle at the man's body.

It aired excerpts of a discussion between the marines.

"He's dead now," one marine in the squad shouts after the shooting.

NBC said the film of the...