US Started Deadly Chemical Strikes From Drone

[tekisui]

Source: Jazablog

Pakistani physicians and experts reported that the US uses chemical munitions in its drone attacks on the country’s civilians. According to hospitals doctors in Peshawar Pakistani civilians who received injuries from US Drone attacks have affected with different skin, eyes and respiratory diseases, it can be concluded that Washington is using chemical weapons in its attacks in Pakistan.

Due to the deadly chemical materials used in the missiles a large number of the injured people in these attacks have been affected with complicated diseases. This type of weapons caused wide spread of cancer in Fallujah in Iraq.

Now the point is that despite claim of killing of several high value targets in US Drone attacks why media did not get any information about dead bodies of these high value targets?

http://jazbablog.com/2011/06/11/us-started-deadly-chemical-strikes-from-drone/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+jazbabblog+%28Jazba+Blog%29&utm_content=Twitter

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note: I can't find other sources that aren't PressTV to verify this yet.

[Divernan]

1. K&R

I know you'll get ten kinds of grief attacking your source. But, hey, let the grief givers come up with ANY articles from sources they accept re the identity of those which US forces claim their drones have successfully targeted and killed. Let them come up with sources which deny use of chemical munitions.

Until "acceptable sources" to the pro-drone group send reporters to where the drones have struck, or medical facilities/morgues where those hit by the drones have been taken, then we are justified in relying on the uncontradicted reports from other sources.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. It still needs to pass the smell test...

If there are claims of chemical weapons, some reasonable theory as to what it might be should be included. If not it is like so much of the crap passing as news.

[ej510]

2. We have a history of this. It does not surprise me one bit.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. With what chemicals since Vietnam?

[Divernan]

5. White phosphorous in Fallujah

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2005/11/21/2625/phosphorus-chemical/

Exclusive: Classified Pentagon Document Described White Phosphorus As ‘Chemical Weapon’

By ThinkProgress on Nov 21, 2005 at 3:33 pm

To downplay the political impact of revelations that U.S. forces used deadly white phosphorus rounds against Iraqi insurgents in Falluja last year, Pentagon officials have insisted that phosphorus munitions are legal since they aren’t technically “chemical weapons.”

The media have helped them. For instance, the New York Times ran a piece today on the phosphorus controversy. On at least three occasions, the Times emphasizes that the phosphorus rounds are “incendiary muntions” that have been “incorrectly called chemical weapons.”

But the distinction is a minor one, and arguably political in nature. A formerly classified 1995 Pentagon intelligence document titled “Possible Use of Phosphorous Chemical” describes the use of white phosphorus by Saddam Hussein on Kurdish fighters:But the distinction is a minor one, and arguably political in nature. A formerly classified 1995 Pentagon intelligence document titled “Possible Use of Phosphorous Chemical” describes the use of white phosphorus by Saddam Hussein on Kurdish fighters: IRAQ HAS POSSIBLY EMPLOYED PHOSPHOROUS CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST THE KURDISH POPULATION IN AREAS ALONG THE IRAQI-TURKISH-IRANIAN BORDERS. <...> IN LATE FEBRUARY 1991, FOLLOWING THE COALITION FORCES’ OVERWHELMING VICTORY OVER IRAQ, KURDISH REBELS STEPPED UP THEIR STRUGGLE AGAINST IRAQI FORCES IN NORTHERN IRAQ. DURING THE BRUTAL CRACKDOWN THAT FOLLOWED THE KURDISH UPRISING, IRAQI FORCES LOYAL TO PRESIDENT SADDAM ((HUSSEIN)) MAY HAVE POSSIBLY USED WHITE PHOSPHOROUS (WP) CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST KURDISH REBELS AND THE POPULACE IN ERBIL (GEOCOORD:3412N/04401E) (VICINITY OF IRANIAN BORDER) AND DOHUK (GEOCOORD:3652N/04301E) (VICINITY OF IRAQI BORDER) PROVINCES, IRAQ.

In other words, the Pentagon does refer to white phosphorus rounds as chemical weapons — at least if they’re used by our enemies."

[Divernan]

7. Depleted Uranium in Fallujah

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/07/24/study-health-effects-felt-fallujah-widespread-nuking-hiroshima-nagasaki/

tudy: Fallujah’s health fallout ‘worse’ than Hiroshima, Nagasaki

By Stephen C. Webster
Saturday, July 24th, 2010 -- 2:27 pm
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'Mutagenic and carcinogenic agents' blamed for soaring infant mortality, cancers

In Fallujah, a city just 50 miles from Baghdad, life has never been the same since April 2004, when U.S. Marines declared the entire area a free-fire zone and proceeded to do what Marines do best. Packing the most destructive weaponry in the world, American soldiers laid siege to the city, deploying depleted uranium munitions, white phosphorus and tons of conventional ballistics.

Operation Vigilant Resolve went on for a full month. Though U.S. forces allowed an estimated 70,000 women, children and elderly leave the city, to this day the campaign to recapture Fallujah is beset with allegations of war crimes.

In the wake of America's "shock and awe" bombing campaign to take Baghdad, radiation detectors as far away as the United Kingdom noticed a fourfold spike in radioactivity in the atmosphere. At the time, the Department of Defense bragged that the substance, a nuclear byproduct with a fraction of the radioactivity as standard uranium, is commonly ingested by Americans, in food, drinking water and the air, allegedly with no ill effects. Officials went on to say its use would cause "no impact on the health of people and the environment."

Today, according to a study by the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health , rates of cancer, leukemia, infant mortality and sexual mutations in Fallujah are higher than those reported in the aftermath of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear detonations.

[Dreamer Tatum]

6. That's a war crime.

When do Obama and Gates do their frog march?

[Odin2005]

8. PressTV = Iranian BS

[Forkboy]

9. More info is definitely needed on this one.