Originally published December 3 2005
Italian TV station broadcasts documentary covering U.S. chemical attack on Fallujah
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
"Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre" aired on Italian television shortly after an official state visit by the Iraqi President, and the film lives up to the controversy of its title by making a case that the U.S. deployed chemical weapons, specifically white phosphorus, against Iraqis in the assault.
The film was broadcast between 0730 and 0800 in the morning on Rai's rolling news channel with a warning that the some of the images would be disturbing.
It showed eyewitnesses and former U.S. soldiers who took part in the Fallujah assault saying that white phosphorus bombs were widely deployed in the city as a weapon.
Rai said this amounts to the illegal use of chemical weapons, though such bombs are considered incendiary devices.
The documentary, entitled Fallujah: the Hidden Massacre, started with formerly classified footage of U.S. forces using Napalm bombs during the Vietnam war.
It then showed high-quality, close-up images of several bodies of Fallujah residents, some still in their bed, with their skin dissolved but clothes still intact.
The film repeated accusations that the U.S. has systematically attempted to destroy filmed evidence of the use of chemical arms in the Fallujah assault.
It provided clinching evidence that incendiary bombs known as Mark 77, a new, improved form of napalm, was used in Fallujah attack, in violation of the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
The U.S. army admitted using phosphorus arms in Iraq to illuminate battlefields, but denied using other banned weapons.
"They were fired into the air to illuminate enemy positions at night, not at enemy fighters."
But the Rai film proves that the U.S. army didn't use phosphorus to illuminate enemy positions (which would have been legitimate) but instead dropped white phosphorus indiscriminately and in massive quantities on the city's neighborhoods.
The revelation makes the U.S. responsible for a massacre using banned weapons, the same charge for which the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is accused of.
Troop withdrawal The Italian public has been consistently against the Iraq war, and the Rai documentary can only strengthen calls for an immediate troop withdrawal, correspondents say.
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