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 Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 12:34 am Post subject: Taleban using British white phosphorus |
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1) Taleban using British white phosphorus
2) Girls targeted in 'Taliban gas attack'
3) Protect women: a new mission for America
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6269646.ece
excerpts from: Taleban using British white phosphorus (*)
by Michael Evans, Times, 12 May 2009
| Quote: | Taleban fighters have been using deadly white phosphorus munitions, some of them manufactured in Britain, to attack Western forces in Afghanistan, according to previously classified United States documents released yesterday. […]
Last night the US military in Kabul condemned the use of white phosphorus by the insurgents as “reprehensible”. […]
Major Jennifer Willis, a spokeswoman for the US Army at Bagram, near Kabul, said that markings on some of the white phosphorus munitions that had been recovered showed that they had been manufactured in a number of different countries, including Britain, China, Russia and Iran. |
(*) title of the print edition
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/girls-targeted-in-taliban -gas-attack-1684028.html
Girls targeted in 'Taliban gas attack'
* Militants blamed after 90 pupils poisoned in third attack on girls' school in three weeks
* Fears of renewed terror campaign to drive young women out of education
by Jerome Starkey, Independent, 13 May 2009
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http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/kim-sengupta-protect -women-a-new-mission-for-america-1684029.html
excerpt from: Protect women: a new mission for America
by Kim Sengupta, Independent, 13 May 2009
| Quote: | | There would not appear to be an obvious connection between the mass poisoning of schoolgirls and the new US military commander in Afghanistan. However, the appointment this week of Lieutenant-General Stanley McChrystal is supposed to signal that America is getting serious about a new policy of "protecting the people" – in other words, combating just such outrages. |
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excerpts from: IDF probe: White phosphorus use legal
by Yaakov Katz, Jerusalem Post, 22 April 2009
| Quote: | Following the 22-day offensive in January, [Israel’s] Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi appointed five colonels to lead investigations into a number of allegations made against the IDF [Israeli Defence Forces]. […]
Regarding the IDF's use of white phosphorus during the operation, which drew international condemnation and accusations that Israel was committing war crimes, a probe discovered that in all cases it was used in accordance with international law. […]
The IDF said it would reconsider the use of white phosphorus in a future conflict with Hamas in Gaza.
Following the released of the findings, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that the "investigations proved again that the IDF is among the most moral militaries in the world. |
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