London Independent | November 8, 2005
By Peter Popham
Powerful new evidence
emerged yesterday that the United States dropped massive quantities of white
phosphorus on the Iraqi city of Fallujah during the attack on the city in
November 2004, killing insurgents and civilians with the appalling burns that
are the signature of this weapon.
Ever since the assault,
which went unreported by any Western journalists, rumours have swirled that
the Americans used chemical weapons on the city.
On 10 November last
year, the Islam Online website wrote: "US troops are reportedly using chemical
weapons and poisonous gas in its large-scale offensive on the Iraqi resistance
bastion of Fallujah, a grim reminder of Saddam Hussein's alleged gassing of
the Kurds in 1988."
The website quoted
insurgent sources as saying: "The US occupation troops are gassing resistance
fighters and confronting them with internationally banned chemical weapons."
In December the US
government formally denied the reports, describing them as "widespread myths".
"Some news accounts have claimed that US forces have used 'outlawed'
phosphorus shells in Fallujah," the USinfo website said. "Phosphorus shells
are not outlawed. US forces have used them very sparingly in Fallujah, for
illumination purposes.
"They were fired into
the air to illuminate enemy positions at night, not at enemy fighters."
But now new information
has surfaced, including hideous photographs and videos and interviews with
American soldiers who took part in the Fallujah attack, which provides graphic
proof that phosphorus shells were widely deployed in the city as a weapon.
In a documentary to be
broadcast by RAI, the Italian state broadcaster, this morning, a former
American soldier who fought at Fallujah says: "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. Phosphorus explodes and forms a cloud.
Anyone within a radius of 150 metres is done for."
Photographs on the
website of RaiTG24, the broadcaster's 24-hours news channel, www.rainews24.it,
show exactly what the former soldier means. Provided by the Studies Centre of
Human Rights in Fallujah, dozens of high-quality, colour close-ups show bodies
of Fallujah residents, some still in their beds, whose clothes remain largely
intact but whose skin has been dissolved or caramelised or turned the
consistency of leather by the shells.
A biologist in Fallujah,
Mohamad Tareq, interviewed for the film, says: "A rain of fire fell on the
city, the people struck by this multi-coloured substance started to burn, we
found people dead with strange wounds, the bodies burned but the clothes
intact."
The documentary,
entitled Fallujah: the Hidden Massacre, also provides what it claims is
clinching evidence that incendiary bombs known as Mark 77, a new, improved
form of napalm, was used in the attack on Fallujah, in breach of the UN
Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons of 1980, which only allows its use
against military targets.
Meanwhile, five US
soldiers from the elite 75th Ranger Regiment have been charged with kicking
and punching detainees in Iraq.
The news came as a
suicide car bomber killed four American soldiers at a checkpoint south of
Baghdad yesterday.
Powerful new evidence
emerged yesterday that the United States dropped massive quantities of white
phosphorus on the Iraqi city of Fallujah during the attack on the city in
November 2004, killing insurgents and civilians with the appalling burns that
are the signature of this weapon.
Ever since the assault,
which went unreported by any Western journalists, rumours have swirled that
the Americans used chemical weapons on the city.
On 10 November last
year, the Islam Online website wrote: "US troops are reportedly using chemical
weapons and poisonous gas in its large-scale offensive on the Iraqi resistance
bastion of Fallujah, a grim reminder of Saddam Hussein's alleged gassing of
the Kurds in 1988."
The website quoted
insurgent sources as saying: "The US occupation troops are gassing resistance
fighters and confronting them with internationally banned chemical weapons."
In December the US
government formally denied the reports, describing them as "widespread myths".
"Some news accounts have claimed that US forces have used 'outlawed'
phosphorus shells in Fallujah," the USinfo website said. "Phosphorus shells
are not outlawed. US forces have used them very sparingly in Fallujah, for
illumination purposes.
"They were fired into
the air to illuminate enemy positions at night, not at enemy fighters."
But now new information
has surfaced, including hideous photographs and videos and interviews with
American soldiers who took part in the Fallujah attack, which provides graphic
proof that phosphorus shells were widely deployed in the city as a weapon.
In a documentary to be
broadcast by RAI, the Italian state broadcaster, this morning, a former
American soldier who fought at Fallujah says: "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. Phosphorus explodes and forms a cloud.
Anyone within a radius of 150 meters is done for."
Photographs on the
website of RaiTG24, the broadcaster's 24-hours news channel, www.rainews24.it,
show exactly what the former soldier means. Provided by the Studies
Centre of Human Rights in Fallujah, dozens of high-quality, colour close-ups
show bodies of Fallujah residents, some still in their beds, whose clothes
remain largely intact but whose skin has been dissolved or caramelized or
turned the consistency of leather by the shells.
A biologist in Fallujah,
Mohamad Tareq, interviewed for the film, says: "A rain of fire fell on the
city, the people struck by this multi-coloured substance started to burn, we
found people dead with strange wounds, the bodies burned but the clothes
intact."
The documentary,
entitled Fallujah: the Hidden Massacre, also provides what it claims is
clinching evidence that incendiary bombs known as Mark 77, a new, improved
form of napalm, was used in the attack on Fallujah, in breach of the UN
Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons of 1980, which only allows its use
against military targets.
Meanwhile, five US
soldiers from the elite 75th Ranger Regiment have been charged with kicking
and punching detainees in Iraq.
The news came as a
suicide car bomber killed four American soldiers at a checkpoint south of
Baghdad yesterday.
Italian News Org. To
Broadcast Evidence Of US Use Of Chemical Weapons On Iraqi Civilians...
Daily Kos | November 7, 2005
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.
END
Italian documentary
evidencing use of “Whiskey Pete” (military slang for white
phosphorous) on Iraqis:
Vet: “Bodies Melted Away Before Us.”
TV to
Broadcast Evidence of US Use of Chem Weapons on Civilians
“Bodies melted away
before us.”
“Bodies melted away
before us.”
“Bodies melted away
before us.”
Shocking revelation RAI
News 24. Use of chemical weapons by the US military in Iraq. Veteran admits:
Bodies melted away before us.
Italian
Satellite TV to Broadcast Evidence of US Use of Chemical Weapons on Civilians
Italian media going
full-bore on the Bush Administration. After its revelations on the subterfuge
behind the Nigergate forgeries, documentary evidence of the use by US troops
of phosphorus and a new formulation of napalm [MK77] on the Sunni civilian
population will be broadcast tomorrow on international satellite TV. Global
coverage of the atrocity, folks.
A news program on
Italian satellite TV, RAI News 24, has substantiated the claim that the US
military has been exploiting the dual use of white phosphorus. In its siege of
Fallujah, the chemical was used on the civilian populace. The story is in
today's
Repubblica. The Bush Administration and the DoD are about to be shamed
before the eyes of the world.
Shocking revelation RAI News 24. Use of chemical weapons by the US military
in Iraq. Veteran admits: Bodies melted away before us.
White phosphorous used
on the civilian populace: This is how the US "took" Fallujah.
New napalm formula also
used.
ROME. 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.
RAI News 24's
investigative story, Fallujah, The Concealed Massacre, will be
broadcast tomorrow on RAI-3 and will contain not only eye-witness accounts by
US military personnel but those from Fallujah residents. A rain of fire
descended on the city. People who were exposed to those multicolored substance
began to burn. We found people with bizarre wounds-their bodies burned but
their clothes intact, relates Mohamad Tareq al-Deraji, a biologist and
Fallujah resident.
I gathered accounts
of the use of phosphorus and napalm from a few Fallujah refugees whom I met
before being kidnapped, says Manifesto reporter Giuliana Sgrena,
who was kidnapped in Fallujah last February, in a recorded interview. I
wanted to get the story out, but my kidnappers would not permit it.
RAI News 24 will
broadcast video and photographs taken in the Iraqi city during and after the
November 2004 bombardment which prove that the US military, contrary to
statements in a December 9 communiqué from the US Department of State, did not
use phosphorus to illuminate enemy positions (which would have been
legitimate) but instead dropped white phosphorus indiscriminately and in
massive quantities on the city's neighborhoods.
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, The
Concealed Massacre will be shown on RAI News tomorrow November 8th at
07:35 (via HOT BIRDTM satellite, 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.
END
Nearly all
Americans don't care... Just so long as it's not their father, son or
brother having holes drilled into them.... Just so long as it's not their
family being dissolved alive by white phosphorous... Just so long as it's
not their daughters and wives being raped... just so long as it's not their
homes being blown to pieces... Just so long as it's not their loved one's
being shot with exploding ammunition... Just so long as it's not their
father, son or brother being tortured and gutted like a pig... Just so long
as it's not their problem. America needs persecution. Woe unto America!
"It would be a
godsend if the Church would suffer persecution today; she hasn't suffered it
for hundreds of years. She is growing rich and lagging behind. Going back."
Billy Sunday, The Need for Revivals,
From "Billy Sunday: The Man and His Message", by William T. Ellis,
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1914
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