Banned weapons used in Fallujah?
Is the US military using banned weapons of some sort in various places in Iraq? Informal reports coming from Fallujah seem to indicate *something* weird is going on: the military is trucking out vast amounts of dirt from some areas of heavy fighting and pressure-washing some streets according to [former] residents.
``He told me he has watched the military use bulldozers to push the soil into piles and load it onto trucks to carry away. This was done in the Julan and Jimouriya quarters of the city, which is of course where the heaviest fighting occurred during the siege, as this was where resistance was the fiercest.''
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``Last month one refugee who had just arrived at the hospital in the small city explained that he'd watched the military bring in water tanker trucks to power blast some of the streets in Fallujah.''
``Why are they doing this, explained Ahmed (name changed for his protection), To beautify Fallujah? No! They are covering their tracks from the horrible weapons they used in my city.''
``Also last November, another Fallujah refugee from the Julan area, Abu Sabah told me, They (US military) used these weird bombs that put up smoke like a mushroom cloud. Then small pieces feel from the air with long tails of smoke behind them.''
``He explained that pieces of these bombs exploded into large fires that burnt peoples skin even when water was dumped on their bodies, which is the effect of phosphorous weapons, as well as napalm. People suffered so much from these, both civilians and fighters alike, he said.''