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FALLUJAH / THE HIDDEN MASSACRE
The truth of the brutal and illegal military tactics of the Cheney/Bush administration is slowly winding its way to the surface of our collective consciousness ~ but nowhere is it more horrifying and shameful than the use of dirty weapons in the hidden massacre of fallujah.
According to Peter Popham, The Independent UK , The United States dropped massive quantities of white phosphorus, as well as napalm, on the Iraqi city of Fallujah during the attack on the city in November 2004 ~ which went unreported by Western Journalists .
Excerpt: A biologist in Fallujah, Mohamad Tareq, interviewed for the film, Fallujah: the Hidden Massacre, 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."
Allen L Roland
ITALIAN DOCUMENTARY SHOWS EVIDENCE OF U.S. DIRTY WEAPONS ATTACK ON FALLUJAH
www.rainews24.it
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article325560.ece
PETER POPHAM, INDEPENDENT - 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, rumors have swirled that the Americans used chemical weapons on the city. . .
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, show exactly what the former soldier means. Provided by the Studies Centre of Human Rights in Fallujah, dozens of high-quality, color 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. . .
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