White
phosphorus ('Willy Pete')
[back] Iraq
Israel
[2009 Jan] "The Incendiary IDF" by Kenneth Roth
[2009 Jan] Israel
'admits' using white phosphorus munitions
Iraq
[2005] US criticised
for use of phosphorous in Fallujah raids "If it
hits your clothes it will burn your clothes and if it hits your skin it will
just keep on burning," he said. Experts said that, if
not removed, white phosphorus - known as Willy Pete - can burn to the bone. The
fumes from phosphorus cause severe eye irritation.
[2005] US forces 'used chemical weapons' during assault on city of Fallujah But now new information has surfaced, including hideous photographs and videos and interviews with American soldiers who took part in the Fallujah attack, which provides graphic proof that phosphorus shells were widely deployed in the city as a weapon. In a documentary to be broadcast by RAI, the Italian state broadcaster, this morning, a former American soldier who fought at Fallujah says: "I heard the order to pay attention because they were going to use white phosphorus on Fallujah. In military jargon it's known as Willy Pete. "Phosphorus burns bodies, in fact it melts the flesh all the way down to the bone ... I saw the burned bodies of women and children. Phosphorus explodes and forms a cloud. Anyone within a radius of 150 metres is done for."
[2005] Britain dragged into white phosphorus row
[DVD] Fallujah: the Hidden Massacre
Germany World War II
[2001] TERROR
BOMBING: THE CRIME OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
by Michael Walsh
See: Depleted Uranium Napalm Iraq
See:
[2003] Horrifying US Secret Weaponry
Unleashed in Baghdad the tank suddenly let loose a blinding stream of
what seemed like fire and lightning, engulfing a large passenger bus and three
automobiles. Within seconds the bus had become semi-molten, sagging "like a wet
rag" as he put it. He said the bus rapidly melted under this withering blast,
shrinking until it was a twisted blob about the dimensions of a VW bug. As if
that were not bizarre enough, al-Ghazali explicitly describes seeing numerous
human bodies shriveled to the size of newborn babies. By the time local street
fighting ended that day, he estimates between 500 and 600 soldiers and civilians
had been cooked alive as a result of the mysterious tank-mounted device.
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[pdf] Detailed Facts About White
Phosphorous. US. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine
White phosphorous is spontaneously flammable and is an extremely toxic inorganic
substance. It is used primarily as a smoke agent and can also function as an
antipersonnel flame compound capable of causing serious burns
The vapors of burning phosphorous (yellow) can be a mild irritant;
continued exposure can lead to bronchitis, persistent coughing, severe burns,
weakness, anemia, loss of appetite, and possibly pneumonia; if ingested, the
fatal dose is 1 mg/kg. WP can cause thirst cyanosis, abdominal pain, jaundice;
acute poisoning produces shock, coma and death in a short time (symptoms may
subside and then return); liver and kidney damage may occur. It can cause very
severe, slow-healing burns on contact and particularly deep burns with
hemorrhaging. WP can also cause severe burns and permanent damage to the eyes.
Inhalation or ingestion of small amounts of phosphorus over
long periods can lead to necrosis or deformation of the lower jaw, damage to
teeth, and susceptibility to bone fracture. Persons with pre-existing skin
disorders, eye problems, or impaired liver or kidney function may be more
susceptible to the effects of the substance.
The use of phosphorous bombs, by the British government on
raids against Germany, was outlawed under international law because its use has
no other purpose than to strike terror in its means of causing death and injury.
It is a napalm-like chemical which when alight cannot be extinguished.....The
exploding phosphorous bombs sprayed their contents indiscriminately and clothing
caught fire and had to be torn free from the body quickly otherwise the wearer
would suffer terrible nightmarish burns. When the liquid splattered on to
people’s hair, the victim was doomed. There was no chance to cut off the hair.
The chemical globules, like a burning jelly, burned fiercely setting aflame the
entire head and indeed, the head itself burned.
They writhed in the rubble-strewn
roads with their bodies partially ablaze. Others were nearer to the River Alster
and dozens of these shrieking demented souls, trailing tongues of flaming smoke
and fire, dashed madly to the water to fling themselves into the lifesaving
liquid. Men, women and children too, ran hysterically, falling and stumbling,
getting up, tripping and falling again, rolling over and over. Most of them
managed to regain their feet and made it to the water. But many of them never
made it and were left behind, their feet drumming in blinding pain on the
overheated pavements amidst the rubble, until there came one last convulsing
shudder from the smoking 'thing' on the ground, and then no further movement.
Those who made it to the water
found the safety they had sought so desperately - but incredibly, some faced a
choice that stuns the mind with horror. Water prevents phosphorous jelly from
burning because it denies the chemical the one thing it needs to burn; oxygen.
Those with the blazing chemical on their arms, legs and their bodies were able
to douse the flames by submerging the burning areas. But many had the blazing
phosphorous jelly on their faces and heads. Certainly the spluttering chemicals
went out as the victims ducked their heads beneath the water, but the moment
they brought their heads up again to break the surface and take a breath of air,
the phosphorous burst into flames again immediately. And so the victims were
faced with the choice. Death by drowning or death by burning; men, women and
children. While others watched sick and despairingly, the victims of phosphorous
on faces and heads thrashed wildly in the brackish waters, screaming with pain
and frustration. Spluttering and choking, they alternatively burned or drowned.
TERROR BOMBING: THE CRIME
OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Michael Walsh
Holocaust over Dresden, known as the Florence of the North. Dresden was a hospital city for wounded soldiers. Not one military unit, not one anti-aircraft battery was deployed in the city. Together with the 600,000 refugees from Breslau, Dresden was filled with nearly 1.2 million people. Churchill had asked for "suggestions how to blaze 600,000 refugees". He wasn't interested how to target military installations 60 miles outside of Dresden. More than 700,000 phosphorus bombs were dropped on 1.2 million people. One bomb for every 2 people. The temperature in the centre of the city reached 1600o centigrade. More than 260,000 bodies and residues of bodies were counted. But those who perished in the centre of the city can't be traced. Appr. 500,000 children, women, the elderly, wounded soldiers and the animals of the zoo were murdered in one night. [2001] TERROR BOMBING: THE CRIME OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Michael Walsh