New revelations of US military use of white phosphorus in Iraq

[Karmadillo]

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/nov2005/phos-n21.shtml

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The first new piece of evidence comes from an embedded reporter, Darrin Mortenson of the North County Times in California, who gave this account of a mortar crew in action during the assault on Fallujah last November:

“The boom kicked the dust around the pit as they ran through the drill again and again, sending a mixture of burning white phosphorus and high explosives they call ‘shake ’n bake’ into a cluster of buildings where insurgents have been spotted all week.”

In army jargon, white phosphorus rounds are known as “Whiskey Pete” or “Willie Pete”—the army radio pronunciation of the letters “WP.”

Also, in the March/April edition of the US Military’s Field Artillery, three Fallujah veterans wrote the following:

“WP proved to be an effective and versatile munition. We used it for screening missions at two breeches and, later in the fight, as a potent psychological weapon against the insurgents in trench lines and spider holes when we could not get effects on them with HE .

“We fired ‘shake and bake’ missions at the insurgents, using WP to flush them out and HE to take them out.”

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[liveoaktx]

1. Video

Countdown

[wtmusic]

2. "The US has removed napalm from its arsenal"

more misinfo...I guess halfass MSM coverage is better than none at all.

[losdiablosgato]

3. I was in the Army and if using Willie Pete will win and get me home alive

I would gladdly use it. In combat you do what it takes to keep you alive.

[Webster Green]

4. Falujah was attacked and destroyed using illegal weapons...

The slaughter was indiscriminate. It was in retaliation for the American mercanaries whose charred bodies were hung from that bridge.

Nothing heroic about the (ahem) "combat" in Falujah, and the American mercenaries got just what they deserved. Fuck those assholes!