Last November, after the second siege of Fallujah, Dahr Jamail, an unembedded reporter interviewed a Fallujah doctor who saw civilians suffering unusual burns.

He cited reports that the US was using "weird bombs that put up smoke like a mushroom cloud" and that "pieces of these bombs explode into large fires that continued to burn on the skin even after people dumped water on the burns." The doctor "treated people who had their skin melted."

"A rain of fire came down on the city, and people targeted by the different coloured substances began to burn. We found people dead, with strange injuries, with their clothes intact," said a Fallujah biologist. - [link to www.uruknet.info]

The Pentagon denied using napalm at the time, but Marine pilots and their commanders have confirmed that they used an upgraded version of the weapon against dug-in positions. They said napalm, which has a distinctive smell, was used because of its psychological effect on an enemy. - [link to www.globalsecurity.org]

Raed Jarrar:

“White phosphorus grenades tossed into places where people are? That's insane - such usage is pretty much a chemical weapon and a firebomb. An M-15 phosphorus grenade (what they're probably using) has a bursting radius of 17 meters. It burns at 5,000 degrees Farenheit.

If you remove a fragment from the body, it spontaneously reignites when exposed to air - you have to soak the injured person's wounds in water before you remove it, then submerge it immediately afterwards.

If white phosphorus enters water with a low oxygen content, it forms phosphine, a lethal gas. Breathing in the smoke causes a condition known as "phossy jaw", which gives an unhealing mouth wound and possible breakdown of the jaw bone itself.

Consumption of a small amount of white phosphorus (<1 tsp) leads to nausea, vomitting, liver damage, heart damage, kidney damage, extreme drowsiness, and sometimes death.” - [link to www.blairwatch.co.uk]