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CHALLENGE TO THE US MEDIA . . .

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Challenge to US Media from the webmaster at the extremely popular site, Whatreallyhappened,com.
CHALLENGE TO THE US MEDIA

These last few weeks we have endured the mainstream media's proclamations about how sorry they were they did not report the truth that there were no WMDs in Iraq; how the media was deceived along with everyone else (ignoring the fact that pretty much everyone else knew what was going on), and how you would all try to do a better job.

Well, here is your chance to prove that. Italian TV just aired a documentary that proves the US used chemical weapons against civilians in Fallujah, and how Giuliana Sgregna, the Italian Journalist who was kidnapped, then nearly assassinated by US troops following her release, had been reporting on that very story along with one other journalist who was killed by US troops at the time. The British Press picked up the story this morning. The rest of the world is picking up the story. So, where is the US mainstream media on this?

Better hurry. Once again the blogs have beaten you to the story, and the longer you wait, the more obvious it will be that you have not really learned your lesson, that you still cover-up for the US Government, and all your recent apologies were just face-saving bovine excrement.
US Army Admits Use of White Phosphorus as Weapon in Fallujah

That's right. Not from Al Jazheera, or Al Arabiya, but the US fucking Army, in their very own publication, from the (WARNING: pdf file) March edition of Field Artillery Magazine in an article entitled "The Fight for Fallujah":

"WP [i.e., white phosphorus rounds] proved to be an effective and versatile munition. We used it for screening missions at two breeches and, later in the fight, as a potent psychological weapon against the insurgents in trench lines and spider holes when we could not get effects on them with HE. We fired 'shake and bake' missions at the insurgents, using WP to flush them out and HE to take them out."
http://whatreallyhappened.com/
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/11/9/164137/436
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