The U.S. military has used poison gas and other
non-conventional weapons against civilians in Fallujah, eyewitnesses
report.. "Poisonous gases have been used in Fallujah,"
35-year-old trader from Fallujah Abu Hammad told IPS. "They used
everything -- tanks, artillery, infantry, poison gas. Fallujah has been
bombed to the ground." Hammad is from the Julan district of
Fallujah where some of the heaviest fighting occurred. Other residents
of that area report the use of illegal weapons. "They used these weird
bombs that put up smoke like a mushroom cloud," Abu Sabah, another
Fallujah refugee from the Julan area told IPS. "Then small pieces fall
from the air with long tails of smoke behind them." He said
pieces of these bombs exploded into large fires that burnt the skin
even when water was thrown on the burns. Phosphorous weapons as well as
napalm are known to cause such effects. "People suffered so much from
these," he said. [more]
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