This week, the broadcast of a shattering new documentary provided
fresh confirmation of a gruesome war crime covered by this column nine
months ago: the use of chemical weapons by U.S. forces during the
frenzied destruction of Fallujah in November 2004.

  Using filmed and photographic evidence, eyewitness accounts and the
direct testimony of U.S. soldiers who took part in the attacks, the
documentary -- "Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre" -- catalogs the American
use of white phosphorus shells and a new, "improved" form of napalm
that turned human beings into "caramelized" fossils, with their skin
dissolved and turned to leather on their bones. The film was produced
by RAI, the Italian state network run by a government that backed the
war.

  Vivid images show civilians, including women and children, who had
been burned alive in their homes, even in their beds. This illegal use
of chemical weapons -- at the order of the Bushist brass -- and the
killing of civilians are confirmed by former U.S. soldiers interviewed
on camera. "I heard the order to pay attention because they were going
to use white phosphorus on Fallujah," said one soldier, quoted in The
Independent. "In military jargon, it's known as Willy Pete. Phosphorus
burns bodies; in fact it melts the flesh all the way down to the bone.
... I saw the burned bodies of women and children. Phosphorus explodes
and forms a cloud. Anyone within a radius of 150 meters is done for."

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