A republican relative just watch almost all of the video on

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Fallujah (Chris-Floyd) He got upset, said the soldiers don't know anything about WP, said how do you know if it is the truth and so forth... the sat images aparrently weren't enough... the burned bodies must be props.... he said that this media is only designed to take this country down.... as if gw isn't hard at work on that front already.

Quite disturbed he was... wanting to talk over the people in the vid... the truth is a hard hard thing and he can't handle the truth.


http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/archives/002201.php#_ednref27
The number of civilians in Fallujah at the time of the WP attacks must be assessed. A substantial civilian population was still present during the April 2004 operation, as an estimated 60,000 civilians, overwhelmingly women, children and old men, fled the city in a single day during a cease-fire that followed the WP attacks.<26> The majority of civilians fled Fallujah prior to the November 2004 operation, but it remains unclear how many were actually in Fallujah at the time of the WP attacks.<27> Attempts to determine this number are complicated by the difficulty in differentiating combatants from noncombatants. US forces reported encountering few civilians, but embedded journalists reported occasional encounters with civilians, including on one occasion several hundred. <28>

Restrictions on incendiary weapons in areas with civilian populations
International law restricts the use of incendiary weapons where civilians may be put at risk. Protocol III of the 1980 United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) absolutely prohibits air delivery of incendiary weapons against any military objective that is located within a concentration of civilians. Protocol III also prohibits similar incendiary attacks by other means (such as artillery or mortars) except when the military objective is clearly separated from the concentration of civilians and all feasible precautions are taken to limit the incendiary effects to the military objective and to avoid and in any event to minimize incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians and damage to civilian objects. A concentration of civilians is defined as “any concentration of civilians, be it permanent or temporary, such as in inhabited parts of cities…”

The CCW has been ratified by 100 nations, 93 of whom have ratified Protocol III, including all NATO members except the US and Turkey, all important European and Asian neutrals, and Russia, China and India.<22> The US signed the treaty in 1982, and the US Senate ratified the basic treaty in 1995. The President submitted Protocol III to the Senate<23> in 1997, accompanied by a DOD recommendation that the US ratify Protocol III but reserve the right to use incendiary weapons in areas with civilian populations if such use resulted in fewer civilian casualties.<24> However, because the Senate has not yet acted upon Protocol III, the US, alone among major nations, is not bound by the rules of the Protocol under treaty law.

A widely recognized interpretation of customary international law also addresses use of incendiary weapons where civilians may be affected. It states that "if incendiary weapons are used, particular care must be taken to avoid, and in any even minimize, incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians and damage to civilian objects."<25>

[stop the bleeding]

1. chris-floyd.com is on my favorites and an awesome site for

anyone who wants to see the truth about the * regime

[acmejack]

2. He is doing some fine work!

Says a lot when you see which papers carry him.

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3. History of Fallujah... Gulf War I, local sentiments, etc....

http://www.answers.com/topic/fallujah


Gulf War
During the Gulf War, Fallujah was one of the cities in Iraq with the most civilian casualties. Two separate failed bombing attempts on Fallujah's bridge across the Euphrates River hit crowded markets, killing an estimated 200 civilians, enraging city residents.

The first bombing occurred early in the Gulf War when a British jet intending to bomb the bridge dropped two laser guided bombs on city's crowded main market. Between 50 and 150 civilians died and many more were injured. In the second incident, Coalition forces attacked Fallujah's bridge over the Euphrates River with four laser-guided bombs. At least one struck the bridge while one or two bombs fell short in the river. The fourth bomb hit another market elsewhere in the city, reportedly due to failure of its laser guidance system.


Iraq War

Downtown Fallujah, December 2003Fallujah was one of the most peaceful areas of the country just after the fall of Saddam. There was very little looting and the new mayor of the city — Taha Bidaywi Hamed, selected by local tribal leaders — was staunchly pro-American. When the U.S. Army entered the town in April 2003, they positioned themselves at the vacated Ba'ath Party headquarters — an action that erased some goodwill, especially when many in the city had been hoping the U.S. Army would stay outside of the relatively calm city. A Fallujah Protection Force composed of local Iraqis was set up by the U.S.-led occupants to help fight the rising resistance.

On the evening of April 28, 2003, a crowd of 200 people defied the Coalition curfew and gathered outside a local school to protest the presence of U.S. Coalition forces in the city. This developed into an altercation with U.S. troops in the city in which 15 Iraqi civilians were killed by U.S. gunfire. There were no coalition casualties in the incident.