The Marine holding what seems to be a puppy is then seen flinging the animal overhand into a desertlike gully below. Yelps accompany the end-over-end tumble until it thuds to the ground at the bottom of the gully.
?That?s mean,? one Marine says afterward. ?That was mean, Motari.?
Maj. Chris Perrine, a Marine spokesman, said a Lance Cpl. David Motari is with the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment at Kane?ohe Bay.
Motari returned to Hawai?i in October from Haqlaniyah, Iraq, after a seven-month deployment, Perrine said. The 1,000 Marines with the 1st Battalion were stationed in the ?Triad? area of Haditha, Haqlaniyah and Barwana northwest of Baghdad.
Motari could not be reached for comment.
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Motari, on a
www.bebo.com social networking page, identified himself as a 22-year-old from Seattle.
On the page he says he is scared of ?nothing,? and is happiest ?chillin? out, sleeping, playing sports, hittin? the gym, hangin? with friends, with my family, at home, Fridays, eating, running, cruisin?, and definitely when I get out of the Marine Corps.?
Web postings say he is married. MySpace and other networking sites for Motari and family members were changed to restricted access yesterday or were removed.
The Everett, Wash., Herald said a woman at the home listed for the Marine in Washington state declined to talk.
?Could you just leave? We already know why you?re here,? the woman told the newspaper. ?Just go. There?s nothing to say.?