Incendiary Devices we use?

The US is not going to admit to using Napalm or any chemical weapons. The mainstream media isn't going to report it unless they have proof. I'm sure that embedded media have had to sign non-dislosure agreements that limit their reporting. So we can only go by the reports we get.

It took a lot of searching but I found that the US only signed off on a couple of the protocols of weapons control- retaining the right to use incendiary devices including phosporus.

"The United States must retain its ability to employ incendiaries to hold high-priority military targets at risk in a manner consistent with the principle of proportionality that governs the use of all weapons under existing law. The use of white phosphorus or fuel air explosives are not prohibited or restricted by Protocol II."

That's from :
http://www.nawcwpns.navy.mil/~treaty/CCWC.html



and from :

http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/030810-napalm-iraq01.htm

comes this:

The Pentagon denied using napalm at the time, but Marine pilots and their commanders have confirmed that they used an upgraded version of the weapon against dug-in positions. They said napalm, which has a distinctive smell, was used because of its psychological effect on an enemy.

A 1980 UN convention banned the use against civilian targets of napalm, a terrifying mixture of jet fuel and polystyrene that sticks to skin as it burns. The US, which did not sign the treaty, is one of the few countries that makes use of the weapon. It was employed notoriously against both civilian and military targets in the Vietnam war.

And from

http://www.blink.org.uk/pdescription.asp?key=5066&grp=21&cat=94

But Robert Musil, director of the organisation Physicians for Social Responsibility said: "John Pike, director of the military studies group GlobalSecurity.Org, said: "You can call it something other than napalm but it is still napalm.

"It has been reformulated in the sense that they now use a different petroleum distillate, but that is it. The US is the only country that has used napalm for a long time. I am not aware of any other country that uses it."

Robert Musil, director of the organisation Physicians for Social Responsibility, said: "It creates horrible wounds. Most of the world understands that napalm and incendiaries are a horrible, horrible weapon." He said the Pentagon's distinction was "Orwellian."

The weapon uses a terrifying mixture of jet fuel and polystyrene that sticks to skin as it burns. Last week the international news agency AFP reported the use of 'firebombs' in Iraq, believed to be naplam.