Via boing boing, which singles out the following paragraphs for your consideration from the San Francisco Chronicle‘s reporting about U.S. drive into heart of Fallujah:
“Some artillery guns fired white phosphorous rounds that create a screen of fire that cannot be extinguished with water. Insurgents reported being attacked with a substance that melted their skin, a reaction consistent with white phosphorous burns.
Kamal Hadeethi, a physician at a regional hospital, said, ‘The corpses of the mujahedeen which we received were burned, and some corpses were melted.'”
And how, do you suppose, can they tell that a corpse melted by an incendiary shell had been a fighter rather than a civilian?
