A few moments later A is picked up telling colleagues: „Obviously this doesn‘t go anywhere fellas. I‘ve just broken the Geneva convention.“ Marine B laughs and suggests that if the round was heard they claim it was a warning shot.

The video was found by chance a year later when one clip was found on another marine‘s laptop during an unrelated investigation. Military SIB (special investigation branch) officers subsequently found a diary kept by Marine C in which he wrote he had been disappointed not to shoot the man.