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The hidden massacre
United States Embassy declaration about the documentary “Fallujah: the hidden massacre” broadcasted by RAINEWS24
Official website: American Embassy in Italy (italian website)

This documentary does not seem to be neutral, and it has been made by professional people who were not in Fallujah at the time those facts happened. More than 100 journalists were embedded together with Marines in Fallujah to inform about the operation Al Fajr.

The documentary has been broadcasted one year after the events happened. However, while making this report, the journalists have not asked for any comments about the hypotheses they were formulating. If they had done so, they would have been told that American forces did not target civilians nor use indiscriminately the weapons referred to in the documentary.

The American forces participating in the coalition Operation Iraqi freedom, use the whole range of legal weapons against legitimate targets. The United States do not use napalm or white phosphorus as chemical weapons or as a surrogate. The United States have destroyed their last stock of napalm in 2001. We still have E-134 bomb, Fire, MK 77 Mod. 5. MK77 bomb is not napalm, its chemical composition is different, it is not outlawed or illegal.

The United States have not used MK77 bombs in the Al Fajr operation. The only case MK77 was used during Iraqi Freedom Operation is when in March and April 2003 Marines used it against legitimate military targets.
To claim that American forces have used white phosphorus against human beings during the Al Fajr Operation is simply incorrect. The United States have used white phosphorus as smoke candles or to mark targets. If it is used this way, white phosphorus is not outlawed, illegal or banned.

Iraqi security forces and multinational forces have been engaged for two and a half years in operations against terrorists, insurgents or members of the old regime. To this regard this conflict has been waged as all the others conflicts in modern history. Coalition forces make great efforts to avoid the loss of innocent victims, in spite of the practices of terrorists, insurgents and members of the old regime of using civilians as human shields and to perpetrate attacks against Coalition forces in areas inhabited by civilians. This is the true story and is reported by journalists world wide.

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