Footage shows war crimes in Fallujah. posted by Richard Seymour

It is the sort of incident that I imagine happens every day in Iraq, but it is rarely caught on camera. An embedded cameraman joined US troops as they entered a mosque in Fallujah where they allege they had come under fire a few days earlier.

They entered without a great deal of caution, found several unarmed men slumped on the ground. Most were dead, but one appeared to be merely injured, still moving and breathing. A US soldier said something like "he's faking shit!" and shot him dead.

Now, the BBC reporter who discussed this initially on BBC Breakfast made it plain that these were not armed fighters, but unarmed dead guys. Yet, curiously, every mention of the story since has gone with the line that these were 'insurgents'. The man who was shot, by the way, was "an old man".

Nice going you fucking adrenaline-junkie killers.