Setback to US Image in War ; the Footage of a Marine Killing a Wounded Iraqi Has Roiled the Middle East
Dan Murphy writer of The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor
The killing of a wounded and apparently unarmed Iraqi by a US marine, videotaped by an embedded reporter from NBC on Saturday and broadcast around the world, is stirring anger in the Middle East and elsewhere.
That anger, reminiscent of the outcry that followed the release of torture photos from Abu Ghraib prison, is the latest upsurge in a propaganda war that the US has been embroiled in from the get-go in Iraq. US officials say an investigation has begun.
The act itself, perhaps a result of the fog of war, perhaps an act of revenge, represents a key challenge for the Marines. Keenly aware that US excesses in the past have turned global opinion against the war in …
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Article title: Setback to US Image in War ; the Footage of a Marine Killing a Wounded Iraqi Has Roiled the Middle East.
Contributors: Dan Murphy writer of The Christian Science Monitor - Author.
Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor.
Publication date: November 17, 2004.
Page number: 1.
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