From: rking164@comcast.net   
      
   On 22 November 2005, the Iraqi government stated it would investigate the use   
   of white phosphorus in the battle of Fallujah. On 30 November 2005, General   
   Peter Pace stated that white phosphorus munitions were a "legitimate tool of   
   the military" used to    
   illuminate targets and create smokescreens, saying "It is not a chemical   
   weapon. It is an incendiary. And it is well within the law of war to use those   
   weapons as they're being used, for marking and for screening". Professor Paul   
   Rodgers from the    
   University of Bradford department of peace studies said that white phosphorus   
   would probably fall into the category of chemical weapons if it was used   
   directly against people. George Monbiot stated that he believed the firing of   
   white phosphorus by US    
   forces directly at the combatants in Fallujah in order to flush them out so   
   they could then be killed was in contravention of the Chemical Weapons   
   Convention and, therefore, a war crime   
      
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