![]() During an April 2004 operation that was cut off in midstream on orders from Washington, mortar companies routinely alternated white phosphorus shells with conventional high explosives. forces had used white phosphorus against human targets in Fallujah. “Insurgents reported being attacked with a substance that melted their skin, a reaction consistent with white phosphorus burns.” A doctor at a nearby hospital confirmed that “some corpses” of insurgents “were melted.” “Some artillery guns fired white phosphorus rounds that create a screen of fire that cannot be extinguished with water,” the Washington Post had reported from Fallujah during the battle. They were fired into the air to illuminate enemy positions at night, not at enemy fighters.” 9 release said, were used “very sparingly in Fallujah, for illumination purposes. Weeks later, a State Department press release criticized “misinformation” in scattered reports by a few overseas media outlets about some of the weapons used at Fallujah, including the flammable chemical white phosphorus. It was a ferocious fight for control of the city of 250,000 just 35 miles west of Baghdad. forces in Iraq conducted Operation Phantom Fury, also known as the Battle of Fallujah. And it needn’t have happened at all.īetween Nov. ![]() credibility, if such a thing still exists, was a year in coming. ![]()
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