MUST FUCKING WATCH!!! Italian TV exposes US chemical weapons use in Falluja - video

[Partridge]

WATCH!!! (This is the English-language version)

Shocking report from Italian Public Tv (RAI News 24) http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ran24/inchiesta/video/fallujah_ING.wmv



Report from Repubblica (via DailyKos)

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/11/7/11819/9522

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[Gold9472]

ITALIAN TV ALLEGES U.S. USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS IN FALLUJAH

http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.226404219&par=

Rome, 7 Nov. (AKI) - A documentary to be aired on Tuesday by Italian state satellite TV channel RAI News 24 alleges that US troops used chemical weapons during their assault on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah in November last year. The documentary - 'Fallujah - the hidden massacre' - uses witness accounts from former US soldiers, Fallujah residents, video footage and photographs, to support its claim that contrary to US State Department denials, white phosphorous was used indiscriminately on the city, causing terrible injuries to civilians, including women and children.

"I heard the order being issued to be careful because white phosphorous was being used on Fallujah. In military slang this is known as Willy Pete. Phosphorous burns bodies, melting the flesh right down to the bone," says one former US solider, interviewed by the documentary's director, Sigfrido Ranucci.

"I saw the burned bodies of women and children. The phosophorous explodes and forms a plume. Who ever is within a 150 metre radius has no hope," the former soldier adds.

"A rain of fire came down on the city, and people targeted by the different coloured substances began to burn. We found people dead, with strange injuries, with their clothes intact," a biologist from Fallujah, Mohamad Tareq al-Deraji tells Ranucci.

The evidence in 'Fallujah - the hidden massacre' claims to show the US forces did not use phosphorous in the legitimate way - to highlight enemy positions - but dropped the substance indiscriminately on the city, and on a massive scale. The documentary also shows the terrible damage wrought by the US bombardment of Fallujah, and the carnage to civilians, some of whom lay sleeping.

Equally disturbingly, a document in the report claims to prove that the U.S. forces have used the MK77 form of Napalm - the chemical used with devastating effect on civilians during the Vietnam war - on civilians in Iraq.

"I had gathered testimonials on the use of phosphorous and Napalm in Iraq from several refugees from Fallujah, and wanted to tell the world about it, but my kidnappers would not allow me to," said Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, held hostage in Iraq earlier this year, during the documentary.

The use of white phosophorous and Napalm is prohibited by UN conventions. Moroever, the United States signed up to the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1997.

[Gold9472]

My question is... who authorized this?

[Gold9472]

I would bet this site that it was Donald Rumfseld.

[beltman713]

Damn, this video won't load.

[Partridge]

right click the link and 'save target/link as'

[beltman713]

That's working.

[beltman713]

It's going to take an hour to download this video, but I'm going to stick with it.

[beltman713]

Need to torrent this thing.

[Partridge]

An hour? What connection arew you on, a 56k or something?

[Partridge]

I would bet this site that it was Donald Rumfseld.

Well, near the end of the doco, one of the ex-soldiers says that they were explictly told (from the Pentagon) that although they were ready to invade Falluja, they had to wait until Bush was assured victory in the 2004 election. He says that the top brass in Iraq were getting frustrated because they thought it was going to be a re-run of 2000 with a long drawn out 'selection' process.

So I guess its pretty obvious where the orders were coming from...

[beltman713]

Bullshit. Saddam can't use chemical weapons on Iraqis, but we can.

[Gold9472]

This is hooked up to a shitty server... take me about an hour to dl it as well.

[Gold9472]

Bullshit. Saddam can't use chemical weapons on Iraqis, but we can.

When Saddam does it, it's murder. When we do it, it's liberation.

[Gold9472]

Before I watch this... is there gore?

[beltman713]

Some pics of burned bodies, but nothing you shouldn't be able to handle.

[beltman713]

The video can also be viewed here (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10907.htm)