U.S. used banned weapons in Fallujah – Health ministry

[Fly Navy]

HAHHAHA. Al Jazeera... aka The Propaganda News

http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=7216

U.S. used banned weapons in Fallujah – Health ministry

3/3/2005 8:30:00 PM GMT

Dr. Khalid ash-Shaykhli, an official at Iraq’s health ministry, said that the U.S. military used internationally banned weapons during its deadly offensive in the city of Fallujah.

Dr. ash-Shaykhli was assigned by the ministry to assess the health conditions in Fallujah following the November assault there.

He said that researches, prepared by his medical team, prove that U.S. occupation forces used internationally prohibited substances, including mustard gas, nerve gas, and other burning chemicals in their attacks in the war-torn city.

The health official announced his findings at a news conference in the health ministry building in Baghdad.

The press conference was attended by more than 20 Iraqi and foreign media networks, including the Iraqi ash-Sharqiyah TV network, the Iraqi as-Sabah newspaper, the U.S. Washington Post and the Knight-Ridder service.

Dr. ash-Shaykhli started the conference by reporting the current health conditions of the Fallujah residents. He said that the city is still suffering from the effects of chemical substances and other types of weapons that cause serious diseases over the long term.

Asked whether limited nuclear weapons were also used by U.S. forces in Fallujah, Dr. ash-Shaykhli said; “What I saw during our research in Fallujah leads me to me believe everything that has been said about that battle.

“I absolutely do not exclude their use of nuclear and chemical substances, since all forms of nature were wiped out in that city. I can even say that we found dozens, if not hundreds, of stray dogs, cats, and birds that had perished as a result of those gasses.”

Dr. ash-Shaykhli promised to send the findings of the researches to responsible bodies inside Iraq and abroad.

Fallujah residents said napalm gas was used

During the U.S. offensive, Fallujah residents reported that they saw “melted” bodies in the city, which suggests that U.S. forces used napalm gas, a poisonous cocktail of polystyrene and jet fuel that makes the human body melt.

In November, Labour MPs in the UK demanded Prime Minister Tony Blair to confront the Commons over the use of napalm gas in Fallujah.

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.

 

[PropStop]

"The United States, which didn't endorse the convention, is the only nation in the world still using the deadly weapon."

lets not be using deadly weapons now!

I don't think we targeted civies with napalm, certainly the terrorists. I doubt we used chemical weapons. Maybe the terrorists did, but i seriously doubt we did.

Since when is napalm the "world's deadliest weapon"? I rather suspect the folks of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would take issue with that statement.

 

[Fly Navy]

How much you wanna bet the chemical weapon they really mean is tear gas?

 

[PropStop]

tear gas is bad news - but a far cry better than a few 5.56 NATO to the brain pan!

 

[Brett327]

How much you wanna bet the chemical weapon they really mean is tear gas?

Exactly. The irony is that the stuff used to spare lives is distorted as an implement to critique the operation. I love how they refer to Napalm as a "gas" like it's some kind of nerve agent. Back in the day when I was an ordie, we learned how to make Napalm and fill up the dispensers. The thing is basically a drop tank modified to accept fuzing on each end. Good times! Some of the FAE stuff around today does a way better job as an incendiary though.

Brett

 

[Fly Navy]

Isn't Napalm a jelly in the bomb?

 

[A4sForever]

Isn't Napalm a jelly in the bomb?

THIS IS JELLY ... but Napalm is an incendiary mixture of benzene, gasoline and polystyrene.

My Marine Officer Instructor said: "I LOVE THE SMELL OF NAPALM IN THE MORNING ... "

 

[Fly Navy]

Holy crap that patch is AWESOME!

 

[Brett327]

Napalm sticks to babies!

There is a machine that makes the stuff - MK 1 MOD 0 if you can believe. It's got a "Compound A" and "Compound B" port for the two chemicals and a regular A/C fueling fitting that you can attach to a fuel truck. It will take any kind of JP, AVGAS, diesel, etc. On the other end it has a gas station like nozzle to fill the dispenser. Comes out kind of like really thick and stringy maple syrup.

Good times,

Brett