-Caveat Lector- ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 4:07 PM Subject: 'Unusual Weapons' Used in Fallujah
> Inter Press Service > > Friday 26 November 2004 > > 'Unusual Weapons' Used in Fallujah > > By Dahr Jamail > Inter Press Service > > Baghdad - 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. > > Macabre accounts of killing of civilians are > emerging through the cordon U.S. forces are still > maintaining around Fallujah. > > "Doctors in Fallujah are reporting to me that there > are patients in the hospital there who were forced > out by the Americans," said Mehdi Abdulla, a 33- > year-old ambulance driver at a hospital in Baghdad. > "Some doctors there told me they had a major > operation going, but the soldiers took the doctors > away and left the patient to die." > > Kassem Mohammed Ahmed who escaped from Fallujah a > little over a week ago told IPS he witnessed many > atrocities committed by U.S. soldiers in the city. > > "I watched them roll over wounded people in the > street with tanks," he said. "This happened so many > times." > > Abdul Razaq Ismail who escaped from Fallujah two > weeks back said soldiers had used tanks to pull > bodies to the soccer stadium to be buried. "I saw > dead bodies on the ground and nobody could bury > them because of the American snipers," he said. > "The Americans were dropping some of the bodies > into the Euphrates near Fallujah." > > Abu Hammad said he saw people attempt to swim > across the Euphrates to escape the siege. "The > Americans shot them with rifles from the shore," he > said. "Even if some of them were holding a white > flag or white clothes over their heads to show they > are not fighters, they were all shot." > > Hammad said he had seen elderly women carrying > white flags shot by U.S. soldiers. "Even the > wounded people were killed. The Americans made > announcements for people to come to one mosque if > they wanted to leave Fallujah, and even the people > who went there carrying white flags were killed." > > Another Fallujah resident Khalil (40) told IPS he > saw civilians shot as they held up makeshift white > flags. "They shot women and old men in the > streets," he said. "Then they shot anyone who tried > to get their bodies - Fallujah is suffering too > much, it is almost gone now." > > Refugees had moved to another kind of misery now, > he said. "It's a disaster living here at this > camp," Khalil said. "We are living like dogs and > the kids do not have enough clothes." > > Spokesman for the Iraqi Red Crescent in Baghdad > Abdel Hamid Salim told IPS that none of their > relief teams had been allowed into Fallujah, and > that the military had said it would be at least two > more weeks before any refugees would be allowed > back into the city. > > "There is still heavy fighting in Fallujah," said > Salim. "And the Americans won't let us in so we can > help people." > > In many camps around Fallujah and throughout > Baghdad, refugees are living without enough food, > clothing and shelter. 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