Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Watch This Now. posted by Richard Seymour
Click on the English language version to watch this extraordinary documentary. You will hear a US soldier explain that he was instructed to shoot at ten year olds in Fallujah because they too could be fighters. You will witness bodies melted by white phosphorous. You will witness a body perforated by drill holes, clearly subjected to torture. US soldiers testify that white phosphorous was used, and possibly napalm. You will witness footage of white phosphorous being rained down on Fallujah. You will hear soldiers describe how they delayed the operation until after Bush's re-election."If you breathe it, it will blister your mouth and throat until you suffocate. And then it will burn you inside ... The only way to stop it burning the skin is with wet mud, but by that point it is too late."

This, by the way, is receiving some coverage from the news, but evidently the government is applying pressure. The BBC has changed its report to remove the phrase "chemical weapons", and MediaLens has already caught them out.
Update: Panic over! There is nothing to worry about because the US Department of Defense considers white phosphorous a "conventional weapon". By the way, I haven't seen a hint of this on US news yet - can any Americans tell me if it has made your television news?