VIDEO: Are American Marines Killing Unarmed Civilians? (BBC Newsnight)

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The US military has announced an investigation into allegations by the Iraqi police that American soldiers shot dead 11 members of the same family last week.

The inquiry comes a day after Time magazine published allegations that US troops went on the rampage, killing 15 civilians, after a roadside bomb killed a Marine west of Baghdad in November.

This BBC Newsnight excerpt originally broadcast Tuesday, March 22 as the top story includes a panel discussion examining the evidence. (Windows Media broadband, 16 minutes.)

http://redacted.blip.tv/file/20638

[MADem]

1. But....but....but!!!! They build SCHOOLS, and hand out CANDY!!!

We don't wanna see BAD NEWS STORIES....SHAME on YOU for bringing it up!

[SeaBob]

2. Bad news stories

If * doesn't want to hear bad ne3ws stories, he should quit causing them.

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6. Yep, shame on me for watching REAL news

from across the electronic Iron Curtain.

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[FloridaPat]

3. Where have these people been for the last 3 years? What do they

think has been going on since day 1?

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7. Exactly, Pat. Thanks.

[gratuitous]

4. Aw, this is just more harping on bad news

Okay, maybe a bunch of unarmed civilians have been killed by our star-spangled men and women in uniform, but nobody ever talks about how the lines at the market are shorter or the class sizes in the schools have been reduced thanks to this!

Damn you, liberal media!

[The Stranger]

5. Where are the recommendations?

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13. Not sure Stranger, although hundreds have watched this clip in the last 24

hours according to the Blip server logs. About half came from Canofun, a very good video-oriented site, and the rest came from Blip and DU.

The British media certainly thought this was a blockbuster story, and so did Time Magazine in their international editions. People here on DU apparently feel otherwise, and that's unfortunate, because there's not a lot of incentive for folks to take the time and effort to edit and post video reports like these here if DUers won't vote for them.

Maybe DUers would rather complain about U.S. TV news than even barely support efforts to crack the electronic Iron Curtain.

[NobleCynic]

14. I'm trying to watch it...

I just can't get it to download. I've tried all three formats at the link.

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16. Really? Do you have the Windows Media browser plugin installed?

What happens when you try to play the clip?

[NobleCynic]

17. Tried it again today and it works

Seems the site was just having problems when I tried earlier.

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18. GREAT! Thank you! And thanks for the report. Here's another clip for you:

There's another really interesting BBC story up on the Canofun website today. I didn't have time to edit it for broadband, but it's available here:

http://www.canofun.com/cof/forums/forum-view.asp?fid=31

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[fearnobush]

12. War sucks, especially the needless one's for BFEE profit. BRING THEM HOME!

BRING OUR SOLDIERS HOME motherfuckers. It's there God dam war that drives our soldiers crazy. They, Bush, Rumsfeld's etc are the real murderers here. This would never have happened if we were not dope fiend in to this mess.

[stickdog]

15. They didn't.

I thought that unarmed Iraqis were one of those good stories that we never hear about:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/16/iraq/main549682.shtml

[Bozita]

19. and this during the week of Bushco blaming the media

Looks like the BBC doesn't give a shit what Bushco says.

Thanks for posting this.

[Bozita]

20. kick