'Unusual Weapons' Used in Fallujah

[Englander]

http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/hard_news/000137.php#more


November 26, 2004
Dahr Jamail

BAGHDAD, Nov 26 (IPS) - The U.S. military has used poison gas and other non-conventional weapons against civilians in Fallujah, eyewitnesses report.

”Poisonous gases have been used in Fallujah,” 35-year-old trader from Fallujah Abu Hammad told IPS. ”They used everything -- tanks, artillery, infantry, poison gas. Fallujah has been bombed to the ground.”

Hammad is from the Julan district of Fallujah where some of the heaviest fighting occurred. Other residents of that area report the use of illegal weapons.

”They used these weird bombs that put up smoke like a mushroom cloud,” Abu Sabah, another Fallujah refugee from the Julan area told IPS. ”Then small pieces fall from the air with long tails of smoke behind them.”

[mrgorth]

1. I heard on Randi Rhodes that we're using napalm now.

[agarrett1]

2. Unlikely

From the descriptions given, they sound much more like phosphorous grenades. Whether or not you think that's an improvement is, of course, up to you.

Drew Garrett

[From the south]

3. WP

Is often used for the smoke it creates... it isnt poison gas though