WASHINGTON, June 13: An Internet video purporting to show a marine singing a song that glorifies the killing of Iraqi civilians was denounced on Tuesday by the US Marine Corps as ‘clearly inappropriate’.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations called for an investigation after drawing attention to the video, which it said was posted in March on a website called YouTube.com and drew 50,000 hits.

Labelled ‘marine-hadji-girl’, the four-minute video shows a young man in a green T-shirt, camouflage pants and combat boots on stage, playing the guitar and singing for an audience that is heard but not seen.

“I grabbed her little sister and put her in front of me. As the bullets began to fly, the blood sprayed from between her eyes, and then I laughed maniacally,” CAIR quotes the lyrics as saying.

It was unclear whether the marines are attempting to determine whether the man in the video was a marine.

The video was removed from the Internet site that originally posted it.—AFP