are you off your tits? Did you read any of that report?
Its being used on civilians, you throw that stuff into a building complex and you KILL civilians. It is also outlawed by any means, unless you are lighting up a test bed area (like a open space). They are NOT using it to light up an area, but in TANDEM with HE.
Non the less, even using it as a WEAPON against military is a very ropey and contested area (see footer). Its napalm, with more power. The americans did indeed ban napalm, but only because they had WP among others, so no longer needed it.
Video evidence help you?
The use of the incendiary substance on civilians is forbidden by UN treaty, the geneva convention and others
watch this video and compare it to this -United Nations Chemical Weapons Convention - and see what you think -
PLEASE DONT OPEN THIS IN FRONT OF MINORS
<EDITED TO REMOVE THIS LINK> pm if you want it. Bit severe for this forum methinks.
You CANNOT use it as a weapon - due to international agreement , but check out the insideDC website (the US propoganda site) and see the following key line:
White phosphorus is not banned by any treaty to which the United States is a signatory.
Well Iraq wasnt a signatory to any treaties either, does that make them innocent then?
Heres some more reading for you. This is what the world thought BEFORE the admission of using WP.
Heres the story BEFORE they edited it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4440664.stm
UN resolutions anyone? (our basis for going to war)
http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane. ... endocument
Amnesty international
http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engmde140572004