Articles tagged with: “White Phosphorus”
Iraq sees alarming rise in cancers, deformed babies
BAGHDAD, Dec 1 (Reuters) - The guns are gradually falling silent in Iraq as a fragile stability takes hold, turning the spotlight on a stealthier killer likely to stalk Iraqis for years to come. Incidences of cancer, deformed babies and other health problems have risen sharply, Iraqi officials say, and ...
U.S. rebuffs Afghan leader's call to halt air strikes
By Peter Graff and Will Dunham KABUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Sunday it would not halt air strikes in Afghanistan as demanded by President Hamid Karzai after civilian deaths, and it denied using burning phosphorus in the attacks. The U.S. military acknowledged on Saturday that the air ...
Probe sought after chemical strike burns Afghan girl
By Emma Graham-Harrison KABUL (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch has called on NATO-led forces in Afghanistan to release the results of an investigation into a March incident in which an 8-year-old girl was burned by white phosphorus munitions. The girl, Razia, was badly burned when her home was hit by ...
Concerns white phosphorus used in Afghan battle
By Jason Straziuso and Rahim Faiez / Associated Press KABUL – Doctors voiced concern over "unusual" burns on Afghan villagers wounded in an already controversial U.S.-Taliban battle, and the country's top human rights groups said Sunday it is investigating the possibility white phosphorus was used. The American military denied using ...
Once You See What Truly Happened in Gaza, It Will Change You Forever ...by Medea Benjamin
Alternet When I traveled to Gaza last week, everywhere I went, a photo haunted me. I saw it in a brochure called "Gaza will not die" that Hamas gives out to visitors at the border crossing. A poster-sized version was posted outside a makeshift memorial at the Shifa Hospital in ...
Israel readies for fight against war crime charges
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has put the justice minister in charge of defending Israel against charges of war crimes during its 22-day Gaza assault, a government source said Friday. Daniel Friedman will lead an inter-ministerial team to coordinate a legal defence for civilians and the military, the ...
Alarm Spreads Over Use of Lethal New Weapons
By Erin Cunningham / InterPress Service GAZA CITY, Jan 22 - Eighteen-year-old Mona Al-Ashkar says she did not immediately know the first explosion at the United Nations (UN) school in Beit Lahiya had blown her left leg off. There was smoke, then chaos, then the pain and disbelief set in ...
Israel admits troops may have used phosphorus shells in Gaza
By Peter Beaumont / Guardian Israel has admitted – after mounting pressure – that its troops may have used white phosphorus shells in contravention of international law, during its three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip. One of the places most seriously affected by the use of white phosphorus was the ...
Israel tightens grip on Gaza City, Hamas stays defiant
GAZA CITY, Gaza (CNN) -- Israeli tanks rolled into Gaza City early Tuesday from two directions after U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on both sides in the conflict to "just stop." The rumble of artillery fire and airstrikes continued throughout the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory as Israeli troops and armor pushed ...
Israeli Troops Tighten Circle as Palestinians Flee Homes
By Sabrina Tavernise and Taghreed El-Khodary / New York Times GAZA CITY — Growing numbers of Palestinians were fleeing their homes for makeshift shelters in schools, office buildings and a park as the Israeli Army continued on Tuesday to tighten its circle around Gaza City. According to the United Nations, ...
Rights group: Israel uses white phosphorus in Gaza
By Jason Keyser / Associated Press JERUSALEM — Human Rights Watch said Sunday that Israel's military has fired artillery shells with the incendiary agent white phosphorus into Gaza and a doctor there said the chemical was suspected in the case of 10 burn victims who had skin peeling off their ...
US embassy close to admitting Syria rendition flight
· Statement contradicts ambassador's interview · Correction could leave Britain open to challenge By Ewen MacAskill / Guardian The US embassy in London was forced to issue a correction yesterday to an interview given by the ambassador, Robert Tuttle, in which he claimed America would not fly suspected terrorists to ...
With four colleagues kidnapped, a Minnesota pacifist is poised to return to Iraq. She goes to bear witness to those struggling with violence. By Stephanie Simon / Los Angeles Times DULUTH, Minn. — Michele Naar-Obed knows she will not stop the war in Iraq by walking the streets of Baghdad, ...
Use of Chemical in Iraq Ignites Debate
Critics say civilians died in incendiary attacks. U.S. asserts white phosphorus was only used on insurgents. By John Daniszewski and Mark Mazzetti / Los Angeles Times BAGHDAD — Omar Ibrahim Abdullah went for a walk to get away from the heavy fighting in Fallouja a little over a year ago ...
Nonviolent Iraq War protesters arrested on University campus
The Eugene Police Department detained seven on charges of trespassing in front of the Military Science building By Kelly Brown / Oregon Daily Emerald Seven people, including a former University professor, were arrested on campus Friday at the Military Science building after blocking the building’s entrances and holding a sit-in ...
Defense of Phosphorus Use Turns Into Damage Control
By Scott Shane / New York Times WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 - On Nov. 8, Italian public television showed a documentary renewing persistent charges that the United States had used white phosphorus rounds, incendiary munitions that the film incorrectly called chemical weapons, against Iraqis in Falluja last year. Many civilians died ...
US Army rules say: 'Don't use WP against people'
By Andrew Buncombe / The Independent The debate over the use of white phosphorus in the battle of Fallujah took a new twist when it emerged the US Army teaches senior officers it is against the "laws of war" to fire the incendiary weapon at human targets. A section from ...
By Sarah Ferguson / Village Voice If counter-recruiters succeed and enlistees flee, a draft could be next. Military recruiters aren't getting much love these days. "They're talking 'bout us lying, but look at this," complained Army Staff Sergeant Blanco (he declined to give his first name), holding up one of ...
US used white phosphorus in Iraq
BBC The Pentagon has confirmed that US troops used white phosphorus during last year's offensive in the northern Iraqi city of Falluja. "It was used as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants," spokesman Lt Col Barry Venable told the BBC - though not against civilians, he said. The US earlier ...
The US used chemical weapons in Iraq - and then lied about it
Now we know napalm and phosphorus bombs have been dropped on Iraqis, why have the hawks failed to speak out? By George Monbiot / Guardian Did US troops use chemical weapons in Falluja? The answer is yes. The proof is not to be found in the documentary broadcast on Italian ...
US 'uses incendiary arms' in Iraq
[Click here for VIDEO] BBC Italian state TV, Rai, has broadcast a documentary accusing the US military of using white phosphorus bombs against civilians in the Iraqi city of Falluja. Rai says this amounts to the illegal use of chemical arms, though the bombs are considered incendiary devices. Eyewitnesses and ...
Geov Parrish / WorkingForChange On Iraq, and the mess that awaits any surprise Bush Thanksgiving visit this year Last year, at Thanksgiving, candidate/President George W. Bush scored a PR coup by making a surprise visit to troops in Baghdad for Thanksgiving dinner. This year, if he attempts the same stunt, ...
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January 17th, 2012
STOP SOPA: Why MichaelMoore.com Will Be Blacked Out Wednesday, January 18th
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December 30th, 2011
75 Years Ago Today, the First Occupy
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December 28th, 2011
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December 24th, 2011
A Little Christmas Gift for You to Download
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December 20th, 2011
Here's a New Free Chapter from HERE COMES TROUBLE
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December 18th, 2011
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December 17th, 2011
A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse
It's Saturday night and I didn't want the day to end before I sent out this note to you. One year ago today (December 17th), ...
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September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
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December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
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May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
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November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
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September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
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December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
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November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
