German radio, The Pentagon has confirmed that flammable white phosphorus was used against insurgents in Iraq last year, in the town of Fallujah. But it's denied that civilians were targeted as claimed by Italian RAI television in a documentary last week.
RAI had cited US soldiers who reportedly described finding numerous burnt bodies. On Monday, Italian left-wing politicians demanded a United Nations inquiry.
A Pentagon spokesman, in an interview on British BBC television, described white phosphorus as a “conventional weapon” that could be used to drive “enemy combatants” from hideouts, and as a marker.
On Tuesday, the US ambassador to Britain, told the “Independent” that “US forces do not use napalm or white phosphorus as weapons”.
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