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I was watching CNN when they played this, and though they went to black-screen before the moment of execution, they continued with the audio.
Them story was as follows:
US soldiers had on a previous day secured a Mosque, which was now occupied by wounded Iraqis. It was not made clear if these were wounded civilians or wounded rebels. A new group of soldiers arrived and, based on their recorded conversation, did not seem to know exactly who these wounded people were either; in the video they appeared in very bad shape; the iraqi guy in the foreground looked elderly. There was no movement. The US soldiers are inspecting them as they lay on the floor, when one of the soldiers suddenly calls out that he suspects an iraqi of "playing dead" ("he's still breathing!") and empties his machine gun into him. It was unsual, and there was no obvious explaination for it.
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