Video of USA using chemical weapons in Fallujah
Direct download of broadcast in english, 27 minutes, 50 MB:
http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ran24/inchiesta/video/fallujah_ING.wmv
"In soldier slang they call it Willy Pete. The technical name is white phosphorus. In theory its purpose is to illumine enemy positions in the dark. In practice, it was used as a chemical weapon in the rebel stronghold of Fallujah. And it was used not only against enemy combatants and guerrillas, but again innocent civilians. The Americans are responsible for a massacre using unconventional weapons, the identical charge for which Saddam Hussein stands accused. An investigation by RAI News 24, the all-news Italian satellite television channel, has pulled the veil from one of the most carefully concealed mysteries from the front in the entire US military campaign in Iraq.
A US veteran of the Iraq war told RAI New correspondent Sigfrido Ranucci this: I received the order use caution because we had used white phosphorus on Fallujah. In military slag it is called 'Willy Pete'. Phosphorus burns the human body on contact--it even melts it right down to the bone.
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In the investigative story, produced by Maurizio Torrealta, dramatic footage is shown revealing the effects of the bombardment on civilians, women and children, some of whom were surprised in their sleep.
The investigation will also broadcast documentary proof of the use in Iraq of a new napalm formula called MK77. The use of the incendiary substance on civilians is forbidden by a 1980 UN treaty. The use of chemical weapons is forbidden by a treaty which the US signed in 1997
Fallujah. La strage nascosta [Fallujah, The Concealed Massacre] will be shown on RAI News tomorrow November 8th at 07:35 (via HOT BIRDTM statellite, Sky Channel 506 and RAI-3), and rebroadcast by HOT BIRDTM satellite and Sky Channel 506 at 17:00 [5 pm] and over the next two days."
Italian News Org. To Broadcast Evidence Of US Use Of Chemical Weapons On Iraqi Civilians... -> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/11/07/italian-news-org-to-broa_n_10254.html
posted by hal9k | 10:28
1 Comments:
WP is not used for illumination. it is used for marking positions, screening movements, destrying material and in certain cases, in anti-personnel missions.
It is not a chemical weapon. Civilians were neither targeted nor deliberately engaged.
WP is a conventional munition.
WP burns on contact with oxygen and continues to burn until either consumed or deprived of oxygen. It will burn anything it comes into contact with.
I've no information that supports that MK77s wre used, in any event, MK77s are not napalm.
Though we did not sign the 1980 UN treaty, in practice we abide by it's provisions--we do not target or deliberatly engage civilians with any weapon, incendiary or otherwise.
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