Posted on 11/29/2004 1:07:16 PM PST by areafiftyone
US uses banned weapon ..but was Tony Blair told?
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?'"
Since the American assault on Fallujah there have been reports of "melted" corpses, which appeared to have napalm injuries.
Last August the US was forced to admit using the gas in Iraq.
A 1980 UN convention banned the use of napalm against civilians - after pictures of a naked girl victim fleeing in Vietnam shocked the world.
America, which didn't ratify the treaty, is the only country in the world still using the weapon.
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i don't believe napalm is banned
Uh...napalm is not a gas.
It was also posted on Al Jazeera Enough Said!
I guess if we are getting blamed for using napalm we might just as well go ahead and use it.
Lie?....Now why would the Mirror do something like that?
I love the smell of napalm and falafel in the morning.
This is coming from the Mirror. This is worse than Al Jazeera.
I don't think it's banned either, but also contrary to the article (if you can call it that), I don't think ANYONE uses it anymore (except maybe the occasional rebel attack somewhere). Besides the sheer horrifying effects, I think it was denounced by the first-world militaries for not being accurate/precise, and therefore not conducive to the type of operations they do.
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.
It is banned by some countries but we are not a signatory to the treaty.
They seem to be confusing napalm with white phosphorus ...
...but nowhere in that UN treaty does it prohibit using napalm against TERRORISTS, now does it?
I didn't even have to follow the link to the website to know which writer over at the Mirror wrote this. Paul Gilfeather.
This idiot has been writing fabricated stories about the Bush administration and the US miltary non-stop. Here're a couple of his pieces:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1290027/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1280016/posts (this is not the Fallujah mosque story, it's a different one)
I wish...
If it hasn't been napalmed, it should be!
Actually this was started in Al Jazeera and this jerk from the Mirror picked it up. I posted the Al Jazeera article on this post.
Napalm. Bring it on!
it's about time...we really need to use a small, tactical nuke and turn that city into glass...
no mercy for terrorists, raise the black flag.
We waged a pc war in Vietnam, look where that got us.
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