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Started off as a normal show but I got exclusive info you won’t believe read at the end of the show.
For more details on the scoop see http://americunt.com/?p=27
LOOK AT WHAT WE DID TO IRAQIS! HOW CAN WE STAND FOR THIS ANOTHER MINUTE LONGER?
(photo from RAI)
also in this show, another brilliant rant from Norm Augustinus
a heh-mix from Dr. Puff
Psychosis from Rodger
Bicycle Mark’s Bechtel Show.
and Ragan Fox’s mother doesn’t care about fat people.
Chomsky Torrents!
and
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10 replies on “YR258 Breaking News- War Criminal Bush Exclusive Evidence”
In case people can read or understand Italian – the original announcement (and confirming article in La Repubblica can be found here and here (respectively). Thanks for the headsup, Madge. This is horrible indeed.
If anyone can read or understand Italian, you can read the original announcement about the story from RaiNews 24 here and the confirming article in La Repubblica here.
Very sad and horrible news. Thanks for the heads up, Madge.
[…] Just from the ‘wires’, through Yeast Radio > Argentina Indymedia > originally from Rai Uno 24: here I found the footage (English version) that they will air on satellite (or already has aired) about the way the US troops took Faluja in Iraq. The marine shooting that unarmed wounded ‘insurgent’ will seem like a walk in the park. […]
in case you miss it in the trackback: here you can see the broadcast.
This is really damning if true; however even I am a bit skeptical. I Google’d white phosphorous, and everything seemed to agree that while it can cause severe 2nd and 3rd degree skin burns, nothing said it causes flesh to “melt off the bone” as in these descriptions & pictures. It spontaneously reacts with air and burns very hot (and this reaction usually does more damage than the chemical burn itself) but that would mean the bodies would be charred before “melted.”
I know nothing of Napalm, however, so that could be a different story altogether.
Yes – the administration in power is absolutely corrupt – but it’s easy to get carried away & just “react” to things without enough information.
(But I’m not a chemist, so I could be wrong.)
I found an article perhaps of interest at
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m17559&date=07-nov-2005_20:32_ECT
U.S. Used Chemical Weapons In Iraq
Veteran admits: Bodies melted away before us.
La Repubblica
Shocking revelation RAI News 24.
White phosphorous used on the civilian populace: This is how the US “took” Fallujah. New napalm formula also used.
November 7, 2005 – “La Repubblica” — — 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.
I admit that I was all for the USA after the horrific 911, I was angry. Thanks to Madge, Democracy Now and Michael Moore I will never allow myself to trust any government concerned (USA, UK, France, Russia) they didn’t think of the consequences only of their own self-interests. They can’t call time out there will be no “truth and reconciliation” and no negotiation.
Hopefully this is true and will be the catalyst this country needs for a sudden and complete regime change. Starting at the top.
The fact is — since November of last year NGO workers and Iraqis fortunate enough to get their message out have long told us that Fallujah was a labratory for military experiments. chem weapons… fear tactics.. anything they’ve always wanted to “try out”. A close friend of mine who works with Refugees in Baghdad.. who fled Fallujah during the terrible slaughter told me about chemical weapon use back in April. This isn’t a question of “if” it really happenned. The better question is, will this finally be the moment that the public comes to grips with it and is so disgusted that it demands action and responsibility to be taken for war crimes by their own government. I for one have little faith in the masses and the mass media, I think they can actually sleep at night believing that chemical weapons are necessary, just like torture and invasion was necessary. I wish i wasnt such a cynic.. I hope im proven wrong with the release of this story.
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