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JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — A Marine corporal seen in a video singing about killing members of an Iraqi family says the song was a joke.
"It's a song that I made up and it was nothing more than something supposed to be funny, based off a catchy line of a movie," Cpl. Joshua Belile said in Wednesday's Daily News of Jacksonville.
In a four-minute video called "Hadji Girl," a singer who appears to be a Marine tells a cheering audience about gunning down members of an Iraqi woman's family after they confront him with automatic weapons.
Belile, 23, apologized and said the song was not tied in any way to allegations that Marines killed as many as two dozen unarmed civilians in Haditha last year.
A Marine spokesman said Tuesday that officers were investigating.
Lt. Col. Scott Fazekas said the Marine Corps didn't know the identity of the singer or whether he is in the military. He calling the song "inappropriate and contrary to the high standards expected of all Marines."
Neither Belile nor officials at his base in Cherry Point immediately returned calls Wednesday from The Associated Press. Neither did officials at Camp Lejeune, the Corps' major base on the Atlantic coast.
The song tells a story of a Marine who falls in love with an Iraqi girl and is taken to meet her family. The girl's family shoots her and then attacks the Marine, who uses her younger sister as a shield and watches blood spray from her head.
He then sings about blowing the father and brother "to eternity."
"I think it was a joke that is trying to be taken seriously," said Belile, who learned the video was on the Internet after he returned from Iraq in March.
Belile said he wrote the song in September while in Iraq. He said his buddies pushed him on stage with his guitar. Someone taped the performance and posted it on the Internet, but it has since been removed.
"I will never perform this song again, and I will remove all video and text in relation to this that I have control of," he said.
Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said in light of recent allegations of atrocities committed by Marines in Haditha and other towns in Iraq, the video should be investigated by the Pentagon and Congress.
"The inappropriate actions of a few individuals should not be allowed to tarnish the reputation of all American military personnel," Awad said.
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I watched the video. The only place I was able to find it was on the CAIR website. Having been in the military I understand the stress these Marines are under day in and day out. This little song made them laugh and honestly I found nothing at all wrong with it. The only way for them to stay sane is to make light of thing. They did it in WWI, WWII, The Korean War, Vietnam and the first Gulf War not to mention every other small conflict the U.S. has ever been in. Our government is probably going to punish this Marine for this song but they're looking at it from a totally normal thinking perspective. Combat soldiers and marines are NOT thinking normally. No person thinking normally would be able to endure combat. We need to stop trying to be "sensitive" to everyones needs. This video offends Muslims, well guess what? Muslims slamming two planes into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon OFFENDS me. Fuck them! And while we're at it, Fuck all these illegals who feel we owe them something and that they have the right to be here because they're humans. You know, i guess I'm just in a fuck 'em all kinda mood right now.
Anyways, if you guys want to check out that Marine singing here's a link to the video. BTW, the lyrics Dirka, Dirka, Muhammad Jihad are from that movie by the creators of South Park "Team America".
http://www.cair.com/