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US Troops Reportedly Gassing Fallujah
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Marines carrying a wounded colleague in Fallujah
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FALLUJAH,
November 10 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - 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
US occupation troops are gassing resistance fighters and confronting
them with internationally-banned chemical weapons,” resistance
sources told Al-Quds Press Wednesday, November 10.
The
fatal weapons led to the deaths of tens of innocent civilians, whose
bodies litter sidewalks and streets, they added.
“They
use chemical weapons out of despair and helplessness in the face of
the steadfast and fierce resistance put up by Fallujah people, who
drove US troops out of several districts, hoisting proudly Iraqi flags
on them. Resistance has also managed to destroy and set fire to a
large number of US tanks and vehicles.
“The
US troops have sprayed chemical and nerve gases on resistance
fighters, turning them hysteric in a heartbreaking scene,” an Iraqi
doctor, who requested anonymity, told Al-Quds Press.
“Some
Fallujah residents have been further burnt beyond treatment by
poisonous gases,” added resistance fighters, who took part in Golan
battles, northwest of Fallujah.
In
August last year, the United States admitted
dropping the internationally-banned incendiary weapon of napalm on
Iraq, despite earlier denials by the Pentagon that the “horrible”
weapon had not been used in the three-week invasion of Iraq.
After
the offensive on Iraq ended on April 9 last year, Iraqis began to complain
about unexploded cluster
bombs that still litter their cities.
Media
Blackout
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A US tank pushing its way in Fallujah streets
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The
sources said that the media blackout, the banning of Al-Jazeera
satellite channel and subjective embedded journalists played well into
the hands of the US military.
“Therefore,
US troops opted for using internationally banned weapons to soften the
praiseworthy resistance of Fallujah people.
“More
and more, the US military edits and censors reports sent by embedded
journalists to their respective newspapers and news agencies,” the
sources added.
Iraqi
Defense Minister Hazem Al-Shaalan had said Tuesday, November 9, would
be decisive.
“Al-Shaalan
declaration meant nothing but the use of chemical weapons and
poisonous gases to down Fallujah fighters,” observers told Al-Quds
Press.
The
reported gassing stands as a grim reminder of Saddam Hussein's alleged
gassing of the Kurdish community in the northern city of Halbja in
1988.
While
the West insisted that Saddam was the one behind the heinous attack,
the ousted president pointed fingers at the then Iranian regime.
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