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.Naturally, the use of white phosphorous and Napalm is prohibited by UN conventions and the US signed up to the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1997, but c'mon, it's just an international agreement.
"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 soldier, interviewed by the documentary's director, Sigfrido Ranucci.
"I saw the burned bodies of women and children. The phosphorous explodes and forms a plume. Who ever is within a 150 meter radius has no hope," the former soldier adds.
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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.
No wonder nobody respects the US in the world anymore. I wonder if the media will report about this story this side of the Atlantic.
Nice work, George. You're doing a heck of a job.
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