"Horror weapon" WP used in Iraq
White phosphorus "horror weapon" used in Iraq - by the insurgents. (The US used this "horror weapon" too, here.)
One shell was a rocket assisted projectile that had been packed with ball bearings, and two of the steel balls punched into Rodriguez' right lung. His first sergeant survived but has only recently begun walking again. A second shell was standard high-explosive, and a third was a horror weapon - white phosphorous.
posted by Rob O'Neill at 8:20 PM
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White phosphorus appears to be a horror weapon only when used against your side. Wikipedia has a useful history of "Fenian Fire" including first military use by the British in 1916 to the launching of 12000 shells by the Americans in the "liberation" of Cherbourg in the second world war. Can we not kill more gently, like cyanide for example?
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