ROGER THAT, SIR - Looking Back at Fallujah's Warzone (Operation Phantom Fury): Do YOU remember this horrific Footage ? Or, did you ever came to see THE Horrific Footage ? (VIDEO)

Shoot the Messenger: How one journalist's footage from Fallujah in the Iraq War caused a firestorm over acceptable rules of combat.

The horrific shooting of an unarmed wounded Iraqi in a mosque shocked the world. But what really happened that day was never publicised. This exclusive report reveals the true story.

"I knew I had filmed something that has been captured on camera very few times in war," states NBC reporter Kevin Sites. His footage of a marine shooting a wounded combatant was so shocking that most American audiences didn't even get to see it. NBC released only a single black and white still. 

But even worse than the shooting, Sites alleges that four other wounded men were also killed in cold blood that day at the mosque. "These men were definitely shot again, freshly shot, after having been wounded the day before."

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The killing of the other insurgents went on and was largely ignored by the (U.S.) media at the time. 

With the war such a hot political issue in America, the press is reluctant to criticise the actions of its own soldiers. In the original NBC report, Sites went to great lengths to justify the marine's actions. 

But while the soldier involved was cleared of any wrong doing, Sites himself came under attack for releasing the footage. "I received thousands of hate mails and death threats saying I was a traitor." 

The real issue of acceptable rules of combat seems to have been lost in the rush to discredit Sites.

The Dark Side of Super Technology - The Human cost of America's deadly Drone Strikes in Pakistan

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US drones attacks in Pakistan have killed more than 2000 people. This heartbreaking film bears witness to people in a remote part of Pakistan (Waziristan) near the Afghan border whose lives continue to be shattered by the attacks. "This child was killed in an attack too", says a local journalist as he flicks through photos of drone attack victims. Children's faces emerging from his photographs contradict the assertion that drone attacks only target "suspected terrorists".

                                                     The Wounds of Waziristan  


According to the US Army, all military-age males in a strike zone are counted as terrorists. This idea upsets Karim, who lost his brother and son in a drone attack. "There is no bigger terrorist than Bush or Obama, who drop bombs on our homes." Meanwhile, with several drones flying low over the villages at a time, the constant fear of bombardment and grief is putting an psychological strain on the survivors. "I feel guilty about being alive", confesses Saddam, who lost his sister-in-law and 1-year old niece in a drone attack.

This striking film offers a rare view of the human face of collateral damage.

ORIGIN SOURCE: The Journeyman