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New Matilda
March 8, 2018
It might not be of any interest to the likes of Defence Minister Payne, but reports of what did happen at Fallujah in November 2004 were plentiful at the ... The Washington Post, The Guardian and The Independent reported on the use of white phosphorus as a chemical weapon against the enemy in Fallujah.
Center for Research on Globalization
February 20, 2018
To answer the first of those questions one needs to go no further then the assaults on Fallujah, the first of which occurred in April 2004 and the second, codenamed Operation Phantom Fury, in October 2004. Before the second attack began, citizens were instructed to leave, but that did not extend to menÃâà...
Indiana Daily Student
August 29, 2017
It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people,” also commanded U.S. forces in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. The two sieges of the city that year involved the massacre of civilians by U.S. snipers, along with the use of white phosphorus , a banned chemical weapon that burns skin to the bone. This use of whiteÃâà...
War Is Boring
July 4, 2017
In mid-June 2017, rights groups reported that the U.S.-led coalition had used white phosphorus in Mosul and Raqqa as part of its campaign against ... The Pentagon initially claimed that, during the 2004 battle for Fallujah, it deployed white phosphorous strictly in accordance with international standards.
Slate Magazine (blog)
June 15, 2017
A New Zealand army general on Wednesday confirmed that coalition forces fighting ISIS have used the controversial chemical white phosphorus in the Iraqi city of ... The U.S., however, used the chemical as a weapon instead of being a purely camouflaging technique in the Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2004.
NPR
June 13, 2017
In 2005, the CWC spokesman Peter Kaiser told the BBC that white phosphorus is permitted in war if used to camouflage movement, but not if it is employed as a weapon. The U.S. military has admitted using white phosphorus in the 2004 battle for Fallujah in Iraq, and in Afghanistan in 2009. Israel used it inÃâà...
Sputnik International
June 12, 2017
According to sources, a man named Abdullah, who previously lived in Raqqa, but is now residing in Beirut, said his relatives saw what they believed to be white phosphorus being used in Raqqa. Abdullah also said that an internet cafe had recently been hit by missiles, killing around 20 people.
bellingcat
March 16, 2017
While it is not clear whether the US – or one of its allies – used WP in Mosul that day, it is no secret that the US has used it before in Iraq: most notoriously in Fallujah in 2004 when the US aimed to recapture the city from Al-Qaida militants, and most recently in Autumn last year, as showcased through theirÃâà...
The Guardian
February 14, 2008
The second, in California's North County Times, was by a reporter embedded with the marines in the April 2004 siege of Falluja. "'Gun up!' Millikin yelled ... grabbing a white phosphorus round from a nearby ammo can and holding it over the tube. 'Fire!' Bogert yelled, as Millikin dropped it. The boom kickedÃâà...
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