[Marxism] US charged with using chem weapons in Fallujah

["Fred Feldman" <ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IslamOnline.net US Troops Reportedly Gassing Fallujah Wed Nov 10, 2004
15:51 
64.140.158.61 US Troops Reportedly Gassing Fallujah 
 
IslamOnline.net
http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2004-11/10/article05.shtml
FALLUJAH, November 10 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - US troops are
reportedly using chemical weapons and poisonous gas in its large-scale
offensive on the Iraqi resistance bastion of Fallujah, a grim reminder
of Saddam Hussein¹s alleged gassing of the Kurds in 1988. 
 
³The US occupation troops are gassing resistance fighters and
confronting them with internationally-banned chemical weapons,²
resistance sources told Al-Quds Press Wednesday, November 10. 
 
The fatal weapons led to the deaths of tens of innocent civilians, whose
bodies litter sidewalks and streets, they added. 
 
³They use chemical weapons out of despair and helplessness in the face
of the steadfast and fierce resistance put up by Fallujah people, who
drove US troops out of several districts, hoisting proudly Iraqi flags
on them. Resistance has also managed to destroy and set fire to a large
number of US tanks and vehicles. 
 
³The US troops have sprayed chemical and nerve gases on resistance
fighters, turning them hysteric in a heartbreaking scene,² an Iraqi
doctor, who requested anonymity, told Al-Quds Press. 
 
³Some Fallujah residents have been further burnt beyond treatment by
poisonous gases,² added resistance fighters, who took part in Golan
battles, northwest of Fallujah. 
 
In August last year, the United States admitted dropping the
internationally-banned incendiary weapon of napalm on Iraq, despite
earlier denials by the Pentagon that the ³horrible² weapon had not been
used in the three-week invasion of Iraq. 
 
After the offensive on Iraq ended on April 9 last year, Iraqis began to
complain about unexploded cluster bombs that still litter their cities.
Media Blackout 
 
The sources said that the media blackout, the banning of Al-Jazeera
satellite channel and subjective embedded journalists played well into
the hands of the US military. 
 
³Therefore, US troops opted for using internationally banned weapons to
soften the praiseworthy resistance of Fallujah people. 
 
³More and more, the US military edits and censors reports sent by
embedded journalists to their respective newspapers and news agencies,²
the sources added. 
 
Iraqi Defense Minister Hazem Al-Shaalan had said Tuesday, November 9,
would be decisive. ³Al-Shaalan declaration meant nothing but the use of
chemical weapons and poisonous gases to down Fallujah fighters,²
observers told Al-Quds Press. 
 
The reported gassing stands as a grim reminder of Saddam Hussein's
alleged gassing of the Kurdish community in the northern city of Halbja
in 1988. While the West insisted that Saddam was the one behind the
heinous attack, the ousted president pointed fingers at the then Iranian
regime. 
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