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From: kdhaisch@aol.com <kdhaisch@aol.com >
Date: Nov 16, 2005 5:56 PM
Subject: [Bizarro_UltraZine] TV Documentary Forces Pentagon To Retract Statement ...
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from the IMDb...
Faced with footage from an Italian documentary showing white phosphorus
shells being dropped on Fallujah during last year's offensive and interviews
with two American soldiers who had witnessed the results of the chemical's
use, the Defense Department on Tuesday retracted an earlier statement
saying that it had only been used for illumination.
"It was used as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants,"
spokesman Lt. Col. Barry Venable told the BBC, "though not against civilians."
However, the Italian documentary, produced by the state-owned RAI,
showed the burned bodies of civilians, including women and children.
In the interview, Venable denied that white phosphorus missiles can
be considered a chemical weapon. He called it a "conventional munition"
and noted that the U.S. was not a signatory to an international treaty
barring its use against civilians. He said that the Pentagon's earlier
statement that it was used only for illumination was based on "poor
information." The Italian documentary received little press coverage in
the U.S., where no nightly network newscast even mentioned it...
WE INTERRUPT THIS FOR SOME IMPORTANT NEWS...
"Baywatch" Star hurts her Neck
Former "Baywatch" beauty Brooke Burns has been hospitalized after
hurting her neck in a swimming pool accident. Brooke, who also hosts
the TV show "Dog Eat Dog," hit her head on the pool floor in her garden
after a dive went wrong on Friday. She needed minor surgery to
correct a chipped bone in her neck but was expected home soon.
Her spokeswoman, Jennifer Glassman, says, "There's no permanent
damage. She will begin work as scheduled in January."
[ THANK GOD, BROOKE IS OKAY!!!! ]
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