I can't see that a bunch of perfomers deciding that they'd be better off performing on a bigger stage, so to speak, is a particularly significant story.

This one is, because this is claimed to be a war against terrorism, and killimg unarmed prioners is terrorism, whether its done by shooting them or beheading them.

If a soldier shooting unarmed prisoners happens to get spotted by a news camera, to ask people to accept that this is the only such incident which happened, and it so chanced that a camera was there to record it, is asking rather a lot.

In any case, an army has a duty to take charge of prisoners, and if they are wounded to ensure they are treated, not to leave them lying around. To fail to do so, withiout very goods reasons, is itself a war crime.

That kind of thing might happen in a situation where the forces on the ground are very evenly matched, and no one can be spared to deal with prisoners, but that wasn't this kind of fight. If we are to believe what we have been told, there were perhaps 2,000 insurgents, and 15,000 or more US and Iraqi Army.