{news} Fw: [unitingforpeace] U.S. uses napalm in Fallujah

[Justine McCabe]

Another horrific parallel to Vietnam.
Justine

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U.S. uses napalm gas in Fallujah - Witnesses > Aljazeera - on-line

>      11/28/2004 9:00:00 PM GMT
>
>
>
>      The U.S. military is secretly using banned napalm gas and other 
> outlawed weapons
> against civilians in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, eyewitnesses reported.
>
>
>
>      Residents in Fallujah reported that innocent civilians have been 
> killed by napalm
> attacks, a poisonous cocktail of polystyrene and jet fuel which makes the 
> human body
> melt.
>
>
>
>      Since the U.S. offensive started in Fallujah earlier this month, 
> there have been reports
> of "melted" bodies which proves that the napalm gas had been used.
>
>
>
>      "Poisonous gases have been used in Fallujah," 35-year-old Fallujah 
> resident, Abu
> Hammad said. "They used everything -- tanks, artillery, infantry, and 
> poisonous gas.
> Fallujah has been bombed to the ground." Hammad was living in the Julan 
> district of
> Fallujah which witnessed some of the heaviest attacks.
>
>
>
>      Other residents of that area also said that banned weapons were used. 
> Abu Sabah, said;
> "They used these weird bombs that put up smoke like a mushroom cloud. then 
> small
> pieces fall from the air with long tails of smoke behind them."
>
>
>
>      He said that pieces of these strange bombs explode into large fires 
> that burn the skin
> even when water is thrown on the burns.
>
>
>
>      Phosphorous arms and the napalm gas are known to have such effects. 
> "People
> suffered so much from these," Abu Sabah said.
>
>
>
>      Fallujah "almost gone"
>
>
>
>      Kassem Mohammed Ahmed, who fled Fallujah last week, said that he 
> witnessed many
> atrocities committed by U.S. troops in the shattered city. "I watched them 
> roll over
> wounded people in the street with tanks," he said. "This happened so many 
> times."
>
>
>
>      Another Fallujah resident Khalil (40) said that "Fallujah is 
> suffering too much, it is
> almost gone now." He added that refugees are in a miserable situation now, 
> "It's a disaster
> living here at this camp," Khalil said. "We are living like dogs and the 
> kids do not have
> enough clothes."
>
>
>
>      In many refugee camps around Fallujah and Baghdad, people are living 
> without enough
> food, clothing and shelter. Relief groups estimate that there are more 
> than 15,000 refugee
> families in temporary shelters outside Fallujah.
>
>
>
>      Blair under fire over the use of napalm
>
>
>
>      On Saturday, Labor MPs have demanded that British Prime Minister 
> confront the
> Commons over the use of the deadly gas in Fallujah.
>
>
>
>      Halifax Labor 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?'"
>
>
>
>      Furious critics have also demanded that Blair threatens the U.S. to 
> pullout British forces
> from Iraq unless the U.S. stops using the world's deadliest weapon.
>
>
>
>      The United Nations banned the use of the napalm gas against civilians 
> in 1980 after
> pictures of a naked wounded girl in Vietnam shocked the world.
>
>
>
>      The United States, which didn't endorse the convention, is the only 
> nation in the world
> still using the deadly weapon.