Did the US military use chemical weapons in Iraq?
I'm shocked, shocked to find that chemical warfare is going on in here!
RAI, the all news state-run satellite channel in Italy, aired a documentary Tuesday that accused the United States of using chemical weapons against the civilian population during a November 2004 bombardment of Fallujah.
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"I heard the order being issued to be careful because white phosphorus was being used on Fallujah. In military slang this is known as Willy Pete. Phosphorus burns bodies, melting the flesh right down to the bone," says one former US solider, interviewed by the documentary's director, Sigfrido Ranucci.
"I saw the burned bodies of women and children. The phosophorous explodes and forms a plume. Who ever is within a 150 metre radius has no hope," the former soldier adds.
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The US military admits to using the weapon to illuminate battlefields in Iraq, and says it did so in Fallujah, but insists it did not use it in civilian areas. Washington is not a signatory of an international treaty restricting white phosphorus devices.
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RAI, the all news state-run satellite channel in Italy, aired a documentary Tuesday that accused the United States of using chemical weapons against the civilian population during a November 2004 bombardment of Fallujah.
(snip)
"I heard the order being issued to be careful because white phosphorus was being used on Fallujah. In military slang this is known as Willy Pete. Phosphorus burns bodies, melting the flesh right down to the bone," says one former US solider, interviewed by the documentary's director, Sigfrido Ranucci.
"I saw the burned bodies of women and children. The phosophorous explodes and forms a plume. Who ever is within a 150 metre radius has no hope," the former soldier adds.
(snip)
The US military admits to using the weapon to illuminate battlefields in Iraq, and says it did so in Fallujah, but insists it did not use it in civilian areas. Washington is not a signatory of an international treaty restricting white phosphorus devices.
click here to read more
posted by purvis at 2:36 PM
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Also, about two months after Fallujah, there were anecdotal reports of US troops with heavy equipment scraping up topsoil and trucking it away in some of the areas where there had been heavy fighting. Never found what I would consider a highly reliable source for that claim, but it made the rounds.
Also, there were reports that the US used a newer version of napalm in Fallujah. This was pretty big news in the British press because somebody in the British government was the source.
If any of these chemicals fell on "civilian" areas, this is black letter war crimes for whomever ordered it.
No kidding. Isn't it interesting that Bush strongly opposes an international court? And that he opposed the legislation that bans torture, even though he's supposedly "against" torture? You know he's gotta know everything bad that's going on in Iraq.
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