The fraudulent "Mainstream Media" is now reporting that they may have found a "chemical lab" in Fallujah. Oh those evil chemical weapons. What kind of a sick society would use chemical weapons on people? These are evil weapons. Um, apparently the United States. Dahr Jamail, http://dahrjamailiraq.com , one of the few real journalists not hiding in the Green Zone and parroting U.S. military propaganda has this story, excerpts of which I have below. Not that any Americans really care about chemical weapons dropped on brown people halfway across the world. For anyone who does care, I understand that Dahr is looking for online donations to help him stay in Iraq and continue reporting there.
November 26, 2004
'Unusual Weapons' Used in Fallujah
Dahr Jamail
BAGHDAD, Nov 26 (IPS) - The U.S. military has used poison gas and other non-conventional weapons against civilians in Fallujah, eyewitnesses report.
”Poisonous gases have been used in Fallujah,” 35-year-old trader from Fallujah Abu Hammad told IPS. ”They used everything -- tanks, artillery, infantry, poison gas. Fallujah has been bombed to the ground.”
... ”They used these weird bombs that put up smoke like a mushroom cloud,” Abu Sabah, another Fallujah refugee from the Julan area told IPS. ”Then small pieces fall from the air with long tails of smoke behind them.”
He said pieces of these bombs exploded into large fires that burnt the skin even when water was thrown on the burns. Phosphorous weapons as well as napalm are known to cause such effects. ”People suffered so much from these,” he said.
Macabre accounts of killing of civilians are emerging through the cordon U.S. forces are still maintaining around Fallujah.
”Doctors in Fallujah are reporting to me that there are patients in the hospital there who were forced out by the Americans,” said Mehdi Abdulla, a 33-year-old ambulance driver at a hospital in Baghdad. ”Some doctors there told me they had a major operation going, but the soldiers took the doctors away and left the patient to die.”
... ”I watched them roll over wounded people in the street with tanks,” he said. ”This happened so many times.”
... ”I saw dead bodies on the ground and nobody could bury them because of the American snipers,” he said. ”The Americans were dropping some of the bodies into the Euphrates near Fallujah.”
Some retired civil servants were waiting to collect their pensions
At least 22 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
Police say most of the dead were civil servants lining up outside a government-owned bank to get their salaries or pensions.
They believe the bomber walked up to the queue with up to 30kg (66lbs) of explosives hidden under his clothes.
Among the 50 people wounded were 10 children, who had small stalls on the side of the road.
More than 900 people, mostly Iraqis, have died in insurgent attacks across the country since the government of Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafaari took office six weeks ago.
The latest violence came as Mr Jaafari's 37-member cabinet and its programme secured a vote of confidence in the Iraqi National Assembly.
The Shia-dominated government, which was finalised on 8 May, was overwhelmingly approved by a show of hands in the 275-member transitional parliament.
Rivalry
The explosion took place near a bridge over the road, and people were killed both on the bridge and on the ground, the Associated Press news agency reported.
Map showing Kirkuk, Iraq
Kirkuk: Iraq's incendiary city The blast outside the al-Rafidain bank also set at least two nearby cars on fire and sent glass and rubble flying into the street.
At least one report says bodies are trapped under the rubble.
"I came here to get my wages and I brought my grandson with me who insisted on accompanying me," Hussein Mohammed, a 70-year-old retired employee of the Northern Oil Company with his head swathed in bandages, told AP.
"The bomb exploded as we queued outside the bank," he added.
Kirkuk, 290km (180miles) north of Baghdad, is an ethnically mixed city wanted by the Kurds as the capital of their autonomous region in the north. It houses communities of Kurds, Arabs, and Turkmen vying for control.
Correspondents say the city, a major oil-producing centre, has been the focus of intense ethnic rivalry since Saddam Hussein's fall from power.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A bomb exploded outside a bank in the northern city of Kirkuk on Tuesday, killing 19 people, including pensioners waiting for checks and child street vendors. The bodies of 24 men killed in ambushes were brought to a Baghdad hospital.
A suicide car bomber also rammed his vehicle into an Iraqi army checkpoint, killing five soldiers and wounding two others in Kan'an, about 30 miles north of Baghdad, Iraqi Army Col. Ismael Ibrahim said. Two civilians were also wounded.
The spree of killings across the country comes as lawmakers wrangle over how big a say Sunni Arab Muslims should have drawing up the country's new constitution. The wrangling threatens to further alienate Sunni Arabs, who fell from power after their patron, Saddam Hussein, was ousted and detained. Sunni Arabs account for most of the insurgents wreaking havoc across Iraq.
The bombing in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, killed 19 people and injured 81, police Brig. Sarhad Qadir said.
The bomb exploded close to a pedestrian bridge crossing the road in front of the bank. Children and other vendors selling products from sugar to kitchen utensils on both the bridge and the road underneath were among those killed.
"I came here to get my wages and I brought my grandson with me who insisted on accompanying me," said Hussein Mohammed, a 70-year old retired employee of the Northern Oil Company, his head swathed in bandages. "The bomb exploded as we queued outside the bank and we were injured and rushed to hospital." The child survived.
The pavement outside the bank was strewn with rubble and glass from the building, while several bodies were seen lying underneath wreckage. At least two cars parked nearby were set ablaze.
Kirkuk is an ethnically mixed oil-rich city where insurgents have routinely launched deadly attacks apparently seeking to foment ethnic tension.
The bodies of 24 men — some of which were beheaded — that had been killed in recent ambushes on convoys in western Iraq were brought to a Baghdad hospital, a hospital morgue official Tuesday.
Ali Chijan said two batches of bodies were brought to western Baghdad's Yarmouk Hospital late Monday.
Seventeen of the bodies believed to be all Iraqis were found near Khaldiyah, 75 miles west of Baghdad, Chijan said.
Hospital official Dr. Mohammed Jawad said some of the bodies had been decapitated and the others had been shot in the head.
Jawad said the bodies might belong to men who have been missing since their convoy delivering supplies for the U.S. military was ambushed near Khaldiyah on Thursday.
Two of the bodies were identified as an Iraqi policeman and an interpreter, but it was not immediately clear which company they worked for.
Chijan said the badly decomposed bodies of another seven men, including one Iraqi and six believed to be "Asians," were brought to the hospital after being killed in a convoy ambush several days ago. Most had been shot in the face.
The slain Iraqi was identified as Ahmed Adnan, said his cousin, Hussein Ali, who was interviewed by The Associated Press at the hospital.
Ali said his cousin worked for a U.S.-owned company American-Iraqi Solutions Group, a large firm dealing in Iraqi reconstruction projects with its headquarters in Carson City, Nevada.
The company later sent the AP a statement saying 11 of its employees were killed Sunday when one of its five-vehicle supply convoys was ambushed east of Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, by up to 20 heavily armed bandits firing from a highway overpass.
"The attackers used light and heavy machine-guns as well as rocket propelled grenades to disable three of the five vehicles," the statement said.
The last two vehicles in the convoy escaped the attack, which the company said was "believed to be the work of bandits operating in the Anbar region and is not thought to be a terrorist operation."
The highway linking Baghdad to Jordan in the west cuts through the volatile Anbar province, a region notorious for kidnappings, ambushes and bombings.
On Monday, new footage of a subdued-looking Saddam released by the Iraqi Special Tribunal on Monday showed the former dictator being quizzed by a judge — apparently on Sunday — about the killings of at least 50 Iraqis in a Shiite town.
Unlike Saddam's combative appearance at his arraignment on July 1, 2004 — the last time he was seen on video — the new tape reveals a man who appears a shadow of his former self.
Saddam's fall from power is seen as a contributing factor to the raging insurgency, which is being fanned by Sunni Muslim extremists and Saddam loyalists.
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