WMR has learned from U.S. military sources who participated
in the 2005 "Siege of Fallujah" that U.S. troops used deadly
"white phosphorus" (WP) on civilian targets. The Pentagon
apparently used a loophole in the Chemical Weapons Convention that
does not list white phosphorus in its annex as a chemical weapons.
However, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons prohibits
the use of incendiary weapons against civilians or civilian areas.
The convention defines an incendiary weapon as "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." White phosphorus meets the
definition of an incendiary weapon.