Incendiary weapons: The big white lie

US finally admits using white phosphorus in Fallujah - and beyond. Iraqis investigate if civilians were targeted with deadly chemical
The Iraqi government is to investigate the United States military's use of white phosphorus shells during the battle of Fallujah - an inquiry that could reveal whether American forces breached a fundamental international weapons treaty.
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Iraq's acting Human Rights minister, Narmin Othman, said last night that a team would be dispatched to Fallujah to try to ascertain conclusively whether civilians had been killed or injured by the incendiary weapon. The use of white phosphorus (WP) and other incendiary weapons such as napalm against civilians is prohibited.
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Sir Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, said: " The use of this weapon may technically have been legal, but its effects are such that it will hand a propaganda victory to the insurgency. The denial of use followed by the admission will simply convince the doubters that there was something to hide." So far, the fall-out in the US over the revelation has been minimal. But the former president Bill Clinton yesterday told students at the American University of Dubai that he did not agree with invasion of Iraq.
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Peter Carter QC, an expert in international law and chairman of the Bar's human rights committee, said the latest US admissions raised serious concerns about whether white phosphorus was indiscriminately used against civilians. He called for an independent inquiry, possibly through the United Nations, into the use of white phosphorus in Iraq.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article327543.ece

It's an old artillery and air power trick. It was used by the AF and Army against the Repub Guard in Gulf 1 for weeks. Hit the enemy! They dive into any shelter. The HE rounds hit, turning a few shelters into smoking holes! The enemy moves out of shelter into open ground and the second wave, anti-personnel weapons.

Someone, (Rummy?) 'cooked up' the idea of using WP as the second part of the attack. Why? Burning bodies is sacrilege for Islamic believers! This is NOT something developed in the field, it is an order from above!!!

And, why 'Shake and bake?' That's undertaker slang for 'CREMATION.'

This is NOT chemical warfare, it's PSYCHOLOGICAL warfare of the sickest kind imaginable! Only a ghoul could invision this!!!

That is was is going on with this tactic! :grr:

Whatever the worst case scenario, that's what I expect from these Goons. If they could only see themselves for what they are, we'd be soooo much better off.

We were watching an old rerun of M-A-S-H tonight. The doctors were being briefed about a new weapon and how to treat it. White phosphorous. Potter went ballistic.