Italian Satellite TV to Broadcast Evidence of US Use of ChemicalWeapons on Civilians

Exposing The US Use of Chemical Weapons on Civilians - on Satellite TV

Italian Satellite TV to Broadcast Evidence of US Use of ChemicalWeapons on Civilians

Mon Nov 07, 2005 at 09:08:19 AM PDT

Italian media going full-bore on the Bush Administration. After its
revelations on the subterfuge behind the Nigergate forgeries,
documentary evidence of the use by US troops of phosphorus and a new
formulaton of napalm [MK77] on the Sunni civilian population will be
broadcast tomorrow on international satellite TV. Global coverage of
the atrocity, folks.

A news program on Italian satellite TV, RAI News 24, has substantiated
the claim that the US military has been exploiting the dual use of
white phosporus. In its siege of Fallujah, the chemical was used on
the civilian populace. The story is in today's Repubblica. The Bush
Adminstration and the DoD are about to be shamed before the eyes of
the world.

Shocking revelation RAI News 24. Use of chemical weapons by the US
military in Iraq. Veteran admits: Bodies melted away before us.

White phosphorous used on the civilian populace: This is how the US
"took" Fallujah.

New napalm formula also used.

ROME. In soldier slang they call it Willy Pete. The technical name is
white phosphorus. In theory its purpose is to illumine enemy positions
in the dark. In practice, it was used as a chemical weapon in the
rebel stronghold of Fallujah. And it was used not only against enemy
combatants and guerrillas, but again innocent civilians. The Americans
are responsible for a massacre using unconventional weapons, the
identical charge for which Saddam Hussein stands accused. An
investigation by RAI News 24, the all-news Italian satellite
television channel, has pulled the veil from one of the most carefully
concealed mysteries from the front in the entire US military campaign
in Iraq.

A US veteran of the Iraq war told RAI New correspondent Sigfrido
Ranucci this: I received the order use caution because we had used
white phosphorus on Fallujah. In military slag it is called 'Willy
Pete'. Phosphorus burns the human body on contact--it even melts it
right down to the bone.

RAI News 24's investigative story, Fallujah, The Concealed Massacre,
will be broadcast tomorrow on RAI-3 and will contain not only
eye-witness accounts by US military personnel but those from Fallujah
residents. A rain of fire descended on the city. People who were
exposed to those multicolored substance began to burn. We found people
with bizarre wounds-their bodies burned but their clothes intact,
relates Mohamad Tareq al-Deraji, a biologist and Fallujah resident.

I gathered accounts of the use of phosphorus and napalm from a few
Fallujah refugees whom I met before being kidnapped, says Manifesto
reporter Giuliana Sgrena, who was kidnapped in Fallujah last February,
in a recorded interview. I wanted to get the story out, but my
kidnappers would not permit it.

RAI News 24 will broadcast video and photographs taken in the Iraqi
city during and after the November 2004 bombardment which prove that
the US military, contrary to statements in a December 9 communiqué
from the US Department of State, did not use phosphorus to illuminate
enemy positions (which would have been legitimate) but instend dropped
white phosphorus indiscriminately and in massive quantities on the
city's neighborhoods.

In the investigative story, produced by Maurizio Torrealta, dramatic
footage is shown revealing the effects of the bombardment on
civilians, women and children, some of whom were surprised in their sleep.

The investigation will also broadcast documentary proof of the use in
Iraq of a new napalm formula called MK77. The use of the incendiary
substance on civilians is forbidden by a 1980 UN treaty. The use of
chemical weapons is forbidden by a treaty which the US signed in 1997

Fallujah. La strage nascosta [Fallujah, The Concealed Massacre] will
be shown on RAI News tomorrow November 8th at 07:35 (via HOT BIRDTM
statellite, Sky Channel 506 and RAI-3), and rebroadcast by HOT BIRDTM
satellite and Sky Channel 506 at 17:00 [5 pm] and over the next two days.

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