Reply #45: 'Pentagon Used White Phosphorous in Iraq' - Yahoo

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051116/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/iraq_white_phosphorous


By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
1 hour, 53 minutes ago

'WASHINGTON - Pentagon officials acknowledged Tuesday that U.S. troops used white phosphorous as a weapon against insurgent strongholds during the battle of Fallujah last November. But they denied an Italian television news report that the spontaneously flammable material was used against civilians.

Lt. Col. Barry Venable, a Pentagon spokesman, said that while white phosphorous is most frequently used to mark targets or obscure a position, it was used at times in Fallujah as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants.

"It was not used against civilians," Venable said.'



I get it....so they must have used their top-secret 99.9%accurate 'combatant detector' to differentiate between combatants and civilians....
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