It appears that questions were asked in Parliamnent last night about the use of napalm, and Tony Blair was forced to defend himself.

I looked at Hansard (the daily record of Parliamentary debates) to verify this, but it appears that yesterday's Hansard has not yet been made available.

Check if it's online yet at  http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm/cmhansrd.htm

Following is the source article reporting napalm in Fallujah, followed by an article covering the continued heavy fighting (including the downing of a large US Chinook helicopter on sunday, over a US occupied part of Fallujah.)

-Tomato-

Daily Mirror, UK, Sunday 28th Nov 2004

 http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=14920109&method=full&siteid=106694&headline=fallujah-napalmed-name_page.html

FALLUJAH NAPALMED

Nov 28 2004

US uses banned weapon ..but was Tony Blair told?

By Paul Gilfeather Political Editor


US troops are secretly using outlawed napalm gas to wipe out remaining insurgents in and around Fallujah.

News that President George W. Bush has sanctioned the use of napalm, a deadly cocktail of polystyrene and jet fuel banned by the United Nations in 1980, will stun governments around the world.

And last night Tony Blair was dragged into the row as furious Labour MPs demanded he face the Commons over it. Reports claim that innocent civilians have died in napalm attacks, which turn victims into human fireballs as the gel bonds flames to flesh.

Outraged critics have also demanded that Mr Blair threatens to withdraw British troops from Iraq unless the US abandons one of the world's most reviled weapons. Halifax Labour MP Alice Mahon said: "I am calling on Mr Blair to make an emergency statement to the Commons to explain why this is happening. It begs the question: 'Did we know about this hideous weapon's use in Iraq?'"

Since the American assault on Fallujah there have been reports of "melted" corpses, which appeared to have napalm injuries.

Last August the US was forced to admit using the gas in Iraq.

A 1980 UN convention banned the use of napalm against civilians - after pictures of a naked girl victim fleeing in Vietnam shocked the world.

America, which didn't ratify the treaty, is the only country in the world still using the weapon.

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Update On Fallujah: Calm Gives Way To Neighborhood Clashes

 http://www.jihadunspun.com/intheatre_internal.php?article=100726&list=/home.php

Nov 29, 2004

By Muhammad Abu Nasr, Free Arab Voice and Omar Al-Faris, JUS

At sunset on Sunday Mujahideen in Fallujah bombarded the US headquarters in the ad-Dahhami Palace west of as-Saqlawiyah with four Grad rockets, fired in pairs. Previously on Saturday evening, the Mujahideen bombed a US command point near the al-‘Askari neighborhood of eastern al-Fallujah with 16 Grad rockets according to the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in the city.

According to the report, US forces occupying the governorate building in al-Fallujah were struck by four Grad rockets when the Mujahideen opened fire on them at 10am Sunday morning. Then at 11:30am they struck again, hitting US forces in the as-Sakani neighborhood of the city with four more Grad rockets. Mujahideen also fired two large Katyusha rockets at the al-Khalij al-‘Arabi [Arabian Gulf] School in the al-Jawlan neighborhood in the northwest of the city.

The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent inside al-Fallujah reported that fighting broke out between the Mujahideen and the US ossupation forces in the neighborhoods of ash-Shuhada’, al-Jubayl, al-‘Askari, and al-Jawlan, in addition to the industrial zone all on Satruday night and fighting continued until dawn on Sunday morning, although the fighting was not particularly heavy.

An indication of the difficult conditions faced by US forces in the city is the fact that in some neighborhoods, the US troops have taken to bulldozing houses in the areas they continue to hold and then use the concrete blocks and rubble to construct road blocks and barriers.

Mafkarat al-Islam’s correspondent traveled from the ash-Shuhada’ neighborhood to the ad-Dubbat neighborhood without observing any US presence en route. He then moved on to the northern edge of the al-Muhandisin neighborhood, and there he found US presence just on the northern extremity of the neighborhood, but nowhere else inside the neighborhood.

No sounds of fighting were heard in the Old City of al-Fallujah on Sunday.

Another Chinook Down Near al-Fallujah

Mujahideen shot down a large US Chinook helicopter north of ‘Amiriyat Fallujah at dawn on Sunday.with a BKC machine gun. The Chinook crashed in an area where US troops were concentrated, and therefore it was difficult to ascertain the extent of casualties aboard the stricken aircraft.