U.S uses White Phosphorus again.

Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke

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US jets strike Syrian town with banned white phosphorus bombs

Two US jets have bombed a town in the Syrian Deir Ez-Zor province with white phosphorus munitions, causing massive fires, Russian military has said.
Two F-15 jets on Saturday bombed the town of Hajin with white phosphorus incendiary munitions, banned under the Geneva Convention, according to the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria.

https://www.rt.com/news/438008-us-strikes-syria-white-phosphorus/
 
Unclebaldrick

Unclebaldrick

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Lucky Luke said:
US jets strike Syrian town with banned white phosphorus bombs

Two US jets have bombed a town in the Syrian Deir Ez-Zor province with white phosphorus munitions, causing massive fires, Russian military has said.
Two F-15 jets on Saturday bombed the town of Hajin with white phosphorus incendiary munitions, banned under the Geneva Convention, according to the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria.

https://www.rt.com/news/438008-us-strikes-syria-white-phosphorus/
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Got a non-RT.com source for that?
 
Unclebaldrick

Unclebaldrick

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Olive Drab Green

Olive Drab Green

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Unclebaldrick said:
It gets used to form smoke screens. It should not be dropped on humans.
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“There are multiple international laws that regulate white phosphorus use.[102]Article 1 of Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons defines an incendiary weaponas "any weapon or munition which is primarily designed to set fire to objects or to cause burn injury to persons through the action of flame, heat, or combination thereof, produced by a chemical reaction of a substance delivered on the target". The same protocol prohibits the use of incendiary weapons against civilians (already forbidden by the Geneva Conventions) or in civilian areas. The convention also defines weapons which are not to be considered to be incendiary weapons.

Examples are:

Weapons containing white phosphorus but that are not incendiary weapons are not regulated by the above protocol.

The use against military targets outside civilian areas is not explicitly banned by any treaty. The convention is meant to prohibit weapons that are "dependent on the use of the toxic properties of chemicals as a method of warfare" (Article II, Definitions, 9, "Purposes not Prohibited" c.).”

I agree, though. It’s horrible. It’s used in anti-materiel rounds, as well, I believe.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

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Lucky Luke said:
Well if you want congress to say they did you may be waiting awhile...
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i don't trust congress, but i also don't trust our hereditary enemies, who seem to be on a huge disinformation campaign. when some mainstream media source reports this, with some sort of confirmation, then i'll take it seriously. until then, this is another piece of russian propaganda....which seems to be getting pretty fucking out of hand....it may be time for a good strike team to destroy that whole fucking building full of hackers in moscow.....that would be a good place to dispose of a lot of that white phosphorous.
 
Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
i don't trust congress, but i also don't trust our hereditary enemies, who seem to be on a huge disinformation campaign. when some mainstream media source reports this, with some sort of confirmation, then i'll take it seriously. until then, this is another piece of russian propaganda....
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Fair enough. I'm just putting it out there. I don't think the phosphorus bombing of Palestinians got to much western mainstream media attention as well.
 
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