The consistent stories that I’ve been getting have been refugees describing phosphorus weapons, horribly burned bodies, fires that burn on people when they touch these weapons. Download the full documentary: “Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre”ĪMY GOODMAN: This is Dahr Jamail speaking on Democracy Now! just under a year ago.ĭAHR JAMAIL: I have interviewed many refugees over the last week coming out of Fallujah, different times from different locations within the city. Broadcast today on the Italian state television network RAI. “Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre,” a documentary by Sigfrido Ranucci and Maurizio Torrealta.In a North American broadcast exclusive, we bring you an excerpt from the film. Rai says this amounts to the illegal use of chemical weapons and says they were used indiscriminately against civilian populations. In the film, eyewitnesses and ex-US soldiers say white phosphorus bombs were used in Fallujah. And these are coming from the camps that I have been to, different people who have emerged from Fallujah anywhere from one week ago up to on through up toward near the very beginning of the siege.”Īlmost one year after these allegations came to light, a new documentary claims to provide fresh evidence of the use of chemical weapons in Fallujah. Many people are reporting cluster bombs, as well. The consistent stories that I have been getting have been refugees describing phosphorus weapons, horribly burned bodies, fires that burn on people when they touch these weapons, and they are unable to extinguish the fires even after dumping large amounts of water on the people. “I have interviewed many refugees over the last week coming out of Fallujah at different times from different locations within the city. Dahr Jamail, speaking on Democracy Now!, November 2004:.troops were using chemical weapons in Iraq. Independent journalist Dahr Jamail was a one of the few un-embedded, independent reporters in Iraq at the time. soldiers were killed, and the Iraqi death toll is unknown. At least 100,000 residents were permanently displaced, over 70 U.S. of using white phosphorus as a weapon in the Fallujah attack.ġ0,000 buildings were destroyed, with thousands more seriously damaged. In a North American broadcast exclusive, we bring you an excerpt from a new film that accuses the U.S. and Iraqi military forced out the town’s residents, bombed hospitals and buildings, attacked whole neighborhoods, and denied entry to relief workers. assault on the Sunni city of Fallujah when U.S. Today marks the one-year anniversary of the U.S.
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