Your tax dollars at work...

...creating more recruitment opportunities for al-Qa'ida.

He said one Marine noticed one of the prisoners was still breathing.

A Marine can be heard saying on the pool footage provided to Reuters Television: "He's f*****g faking he's dead. He faking he's f*****g dead."

"The Marine then raises his rifle and fires into the man's head. The pictures are too graphic for us to broadcast," Mr Sites added.

The Marine is then heard to say: "He's dead now."

Our military is looking into whether not this is a war crime. I'm assuming they won't have to look hard.

...Swopa @ Needlenose has more on what this really means.

From the Department of Worst Case Scenarios, PR division

American soldiers executing unarmed Iraqi prisoners? A war crime, and a public relations disaster.

American soldiers executing unarmed Iraqi prisoners in a mosque? Good heavens. If they were looking to top Abu Ghraib as a way to incite Muslim hatred of the United States, they succeeded.

American soldiers executing unarmed Iraqi prisoners in a mosque on videotape? Well, perhaps Osama bin Laden will die from exhaustion because he can't stop dancing for joy.

This footage will be in every al-Qaeda recruiting tape for the next 10 years. I'd say it can't get any worse, but tomorrow's another day.

Yes, there's always a chance for Iraq to get even worse. Lovely, eh?