WP - U.S. Forces Battle Into Heart of Fallujah

[maddezmom]

this is from page 2...
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Civilians caught in the crossfire were gathered in a hospital donated by the United Arab Emirates and flying a blue and white UNICEF banner. There, medical workers low on bandages and antiseptic bound wounds in ripped sheets and cleaned torn skin with hot water.

The Jolan and Askali neighborhoods seemed particularly hard hit, with more than half of the houses destroyed. Dead bodies were scattered on the streets and narrow alleys of Jolan, one of Fallujah's oldest neighborhoods. Blood and flesh were splattered on the walls of some of the houses, witnesses said, and the streets were full of holes.

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Some artillery guns fired white phosphorous rounds that create a screen of fire that cannot be extinguished with water. Insurgents reported being attacked with a substance that melted their skin, a reaction consistent with white phosphorous burns.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35979-2004Nov9_2.html

[whistle]

1. Phosphorous rounds being used on civilians, what kind of monsters...

...is the U.S. military using to fight these wars?

[demgrrrll]

3. We are going to be paying for this for the rest of our lives in every

sense of the word payment. Awful. You know I think that some people are so desensitized to what is going on that they do not realize they are hurting human beings.

[dethl]

2. Holy crap...

Is melting the "enemies" skin ethical?! That has to be a very painful way to go.

[NYC]

4. This is the first I've heard

of "white phosphorus rounds". Can anyone explain this?

...Some artillery guns fired white phosphorous rounds that create a screen of fire that cannot be extinguished with water...

[flordehinojos]

5. liberators? kisses and flowers? the reality is more like scatterers of

body parts, spreaders of blood and destruction ...