{"id":65,"date":"2004-11-15T08:55:23","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T08:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/fp-wp\/?p=65"},"modified":"2004-11-15T08:55:23","modified_gmt":"2004-11-15T08:55:23","slug":"id-call-this-a-war-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;d call this a war crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the SF Chronicle, on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2004\/11\/10\/MNG6P9P3ER1.DTL\">use of white phosphorus weapons in Fallujah<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Usually we keep the gloves on,&#8221; said Army Capt. Erik Krivda, of Gaithersburg, Md., the senior officer in charge of the 1st Infantry Division&#8217;s Task Force 2-2 tactical operations command center. &#8220;For this operation, we took the gloves off.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Some artillery guns fired white phosphorous rounds that create a screen of fire that cannot be extinguished with water. Insurgents reported being attacked with a substance that melted their skin, a reaction consistent with white phosphorous burns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Kamal Hadeethi, a physician at a regional hospital, said, &#8220;The corpses of the mujahedeen which we received were burned, and some corpses were melted.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talkleft.com\/new_archives\/008751.html\">This might be one, too<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wsws.org\/articles\/2004\/nov2004\/vet-n11.shtml\">This soldier thinks we are committing genocide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the SF Chronicle, on the use of white phosphorus weapons in Fallujah: &#8220;Usually we keep the gloves on,&#8221; said Army Capt. Erik Krivda, of Gaithersburg, Md., the senior officer in charge of the 1st Infantry Division&#8217;s Task Force 2-2 tactical operations command center. &#8220;For this operation, we took the gloves off.&#8221; Some artillery guns fired white phosphorous rounds that create a screen of fire that cannot be extinguished with water. Insurgents reported being attacked with a substance that melted their skin, a reaction consistent with white phosphorous burns. Kamal Hadeethi, a physician at a regional hospital, said, &#8220;The corpses <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=65\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-13","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}