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>Don't know if you guys saw this. Monday (or Tuesday?) evening, BBC news showed partial footage, made by an embedded reporter, of an American soldier shooting to death one unarmed, wounded Iraqi, who was unable to flee. They said the guy would be court-martialed, as this is entirely against Geneva convention, and classified as a war crime.
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>Now the interesting part: there was a poll already in the States, and 95% of the answers were "he was in his rights to kill the Iraqi".

I saw a senior on-site (in Fallujha) military man discussing the "mop up" operations there. He said, quoting roughly 'There are still some who want to fight to the death and we aim to accommodate them'.

Nice sound-bite, but it may also provide some idea of the "orders" that were operating at the time.

Jim