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Chemical weapon use by US forces in Iraq confirmed

Friend | 16.11.2005 11:34 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

Evidence of chemical weapon use by US forces in their attack on Fallujah is overwhelming.

"I heard the order to pay attention because they were going to use white phosphorus on Fallujah. In military jargon it's known as Willy Pete ... Phosphorus burns bodies, in fact it melts the flesh all the way down to the bone ... I saw the burned bodies of women and children."

Jeff Englehart, a US marine who fought in Fallujah

The Pentagon has admitted US forces used white phosphorus during the assault last year on Fallujah. A Pentagon spokesman's comments last night appeared to contradict the US ambassador to London who said that American forces did not use white phosphorus as a weapon. The ambassador also, rather pathetically, tried to claim that napalm, aka Mk-77, was not used in the original invasion.

Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Barry Venable said that white phosphorus - which is normally used to lay smokescreens - was not covered by international conventions on chemical weapons.

But Professor Paul Rodgers of the University of Bradford department of peace studies said it would probably would fall into the category of chemical weapons if it was used directly against people.

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yeah

16.11.2005 13:46

Evidence of the USA planning to invade England and take over is also overwhelming

unai


Get on script and up to speed Unai

16.11.2005 14:01

Why would the US need to invade England when it can order the extradition of any British citizen without trial and it can rely on the UK forces - who also use WP - to act as their cannon-fodder ?

Some of the war-mongers have obviously yet to catch up with the fact that the US has went from denying this to admitting its use on civilian areas. You are meant to be saying 'Ok, we might have used illegal, inhumane and indiscriminate weapons on a civilian population but we only did it to save them from those evil foriegn insurgents'.

Danny


some URL's

16.11.2005 18:07

more on:
 http://ovl.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/7688_comment.php#7689

ps: texts in Dutch, URL's mostly link to English pages

Guido
mail e-mail: Guido@stopimperialism.be


yeah

16.11.2005 18:20

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