Odd Happenings in Fallujah (chemical weapons used?)

[clem_c_rock]

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives//000173.php#more

Keep hearing whispers of chemical weapons being used in Falluja. Although no real evidence for this claim, I think napalm use has been safely confirmed.

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“The soldiers are doing strange things in Fallujah,” said one of my contacts in Fallujah who just returned. He was in his city checking on his home and just returned to Baghdad this evening.

Speaking on condition of anonymity he continued, “In the center of the Julan Quarter they are removing entire homes which have been bombed, meanwhile most of the homes that were bombed are left as they were. Why are they doing this?”

According to him, this was also done in the Nazal, Mualmeen, Jubail and Shuhada’a districts, and the military began to do this after Eid, which was after November 20th.

He told me he has watched the military use bulldozers to push the soil into piles and load it onto trucks to carry away. This was done in the Julan and Jimouriya quarters of the city, which is of course where the heaviest fighting occurred during the siege, as this was where resistance was the fiercest.

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[theresistance]

1. It wouldn't surprise me if the US

was using chemical weapons, or some other type of whiz-bang weapons. They will utilize anything to crush their opponents. Cluster bombs and phosphorous rounds have also been used in Iraq.

[ashmanonar]

2. cluster and WP are different tho

not to defend the US's using such weapons, but they clearly are NOT chem weapons...or anything akin...cluster is just less controlled than the guided stuff they usually use, and WP is a flare or incendiary, not anything more...

personally, the depleted uranium used by the tanks is more worrisome...iraq is gonna be a barren wasteland by the time they're done, a wasteland of radiation and bodies...

[theresistance]

4. Agreed, but I'm just pointing out

that US forces use everything they can. Cluster bombs as far as I'm concerned are a terrorist weapon of staggering and indiscriminate destructive power to innocent peoples. Phosphorous rounds are a bit more than "flares". In Fallujah they caused frightful burning of people, and when you think they had no health care...well, enough said. These weapons must only be WPD ("weapons of partial destruction") as compared to the evil WMD...

[ashmanonar]

5. ok, fair enough.

i don't disagree with you, mostly. all i'll say is that most any weapon our troops are bringing to bear are as bad as cluster or WP, honestly...a 2000 pound guided bomb is pretty destructive, especially when trying to hit a few thousand "insurgents" in the middle of a city of 300,000. hence "collateral damage".

i'm just saying that WP and cluster bombs aren't exactly chemical or nuclear.

on edit: and of course, you can't forget depleted uranium...a most horrible and radioactive way to die.

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[clem_c_rock]

7. Totally sorry

Won't happen again.

[tuvor]

6. Old news.

Underreported as usual...

FALLUJAH NAPALMED

Nov 28 2004

US uses banned weapon ..but was Tony Blair told?

By Paul Gilfeather Political Editor


US troops are secretly using outlawed napalm gas to wipe out remaining insurgents in and around Fallujah.

News that President George W. Bush has sanctioned the use of napalm, a deadly cocktail of polystyrene and jet fuel banned by the United Nations in 1980, will stun governments around the world.

And last night Tony Blair was dragged into the row as furious Labour MPs demanded he face the Commons over it. Reports claim that innocent civilians have died in napalm attacks, which turn victims into human fireballs as the gel bonds flames to flesh.

Outraged critics have also demanded that Mr Blair threatens to withdraw British troops from Iraq unless the US abandons one of the world's most reviled weapons. Halifax Labour MP Alice Mahon said: "I am calling on Mr Blair to make an emergency statement to the Commons to explain why this is happening. It begs the question: 'Did we know about this hideous weapon's use in Iraq?'"

http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/news/tm_objectid=14920109%26method=full%26siteid=106694-name_page.html