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US Gassing of Fallujah Confirmed:
Independent
CAIRO,
November 8, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – A powerful new evidence has
emerged that the United States did use chemical weapons in last year's
Fallujah bombing, according to The Independent Tuesday,
November 8, confirming reports by IslamOnline.net a year ago that were
then vehemently denied by the United States.
A
US soldier, who took part in the November, 2004 US attack on Fallujah,
said in a documentary, to be aired by the Italian state broadcaster RAI
Tuesday, that US troops have used phosphorus shells in bombing the
western Iraqi city.
"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," said the former US soldier.
"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."
High-quality
and colored close-ups, provided by the Studies Center of Human Rights
in Fallujah, showed body skin of residents, some still in their beds,
has been dissolved or caramelized or turned the consistency of leather
by the shells, according to the British daily.
The
Independent recalled IOL's
report on the issue almost a year ago. IslamOnline.net
reported November 10, 2004, that US troops used chemical weapons and
poisonous gas in its large-scale onslaught on the resistance hub.
“The
US occupation troops are gassing resistance fighters and confronting
them with internationally-banned chemical weapons,” IOL then quoted
resistance sources as saying.
An
Iraqi doctor had also confirmed reports of gassing the city by US
forces.
“The
US troops have sprayed chemical and nerve gases on resistance
fighters, turning them hysteric in a heartbreaking scene."
The
US government then denied gassing the Iraqi city, saying the reports
were totally "untrue".
The
US forces said that they used phosphorus shells in Fallujah only for
"illumination purposes".
"They
were fired into the air to illuminate enemy positions at night, not at
enemy fighters."
Incendiary
Bombs
The
documentary, entitled "Fallujah: the Hidden Massacre" also
revealed that US forces used incendiary bombs known as Mark 77, a new,
improved form of napalm, in bombing the city.
"A
rain of fire fell on the city, the people struck by this multi-colored
substance started to burn, we found people dead with strange wounds,
the bodies burned but the clothes intact," Mohamed Tareq, a
biologist in Fallujah, said in the documentary, according to the
Independent.
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.
Some
10,000 US marines and army forces, alongside some 2,000 Iraqi national
guardsmen unleashed
a long-expected onslaught on the resistance hub on
November 8, capping long nights of massive US raids.
The
US onslaught left at least 700 people killed, including children and
women, and thousands injured.
Amnesty
International harshly criticized the US for killing dozens of
civilians in a number of deadly consecutive air strikes into the
war-battered city.
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Independent Report
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