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NEW YORK, NOV. 16. The United States military is investigating the videotaped fatal shooting of a wounded and apparently unarmed Iraqi prisoner by a U.S. Marine in a mosque in the former militant stronghold of Fallujah, a Marine spokesman said. The dramatic footage was taken on Saturday by correspondent, Kevin Sites, of NBC television, who said three other prisoners wounded a day earlier in the mosque had also apparently been shot the next day by the Marines. The incident played out as the Marines 3rd Battalion, 1st Regiment, returned to the unidentified Fallujah mosque on Saturday. Mr. Sites was embedded with the unit. Mr. Sites reported that a different Marine unit had come under fire from the mosque on Friday. Those Marines stormed the building, killing 10 men and wounding five. The Marines said the fighters in the mosque had been armed with rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47 rifles. The Marines had treated the wounded, he reported, left them behind and continued on Friday with their drive to retake the city from militants.
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On the video, as the camera moved into the mosque during the Saturday incident, a Marine can be heard shouting obscenities in the background, yelling that one of the men was only pretending to be dead. The video then showed a Marine raising his rifle toward a prisoner lying on the floor of the mosque. The video shown by NBC and provided to the network pool was blacked out at that point and did not show the bullet hitting the man. But a rifle shot could be heard. ``He's dead now,'' a Marine is heard saying. Mr. Sites reported a Marine in the same unit was killed just a day earlier when he tended to the booby-trapped body of a militant. A spokesman at Marine Corps headquarters in the Pentagon, Maj. Doug Powell, said the incident was ``being investigated.''
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