Nur al-Cubicle

A blog on the current crises in the Middle East and news accounts unpublished by the US press. Daily timeline of events in Iraq as collected from stories and dispatches in the French and Italian media: Le Monde (Paris), Il Corriere della Sera (Milan), La Repubblica (Rome), L'Orient-Le Jour (Beirut) and occasionally from El Mundo (Madrid).

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Q. When is a war crime not a war crime?

A. When you are the United States Military.

From the DoD/CIA annals via Think Progress

IIR 2 243 1050 91/POSSIBLE USE OF PHOSPHOROUS CHEMICAL
HEADER R 170142Z APR 91
...
FM JOINT STAFF WASHINGTON DC
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHINGTON DC
...
PRESIDENT SADDAM ((HUSSEIN)) MAY HAVE POSSIBLY USED WHITE PHOSPHOROUS (WP) CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST KURDISH REBELS AND THE POPULACE IN ERBIL (GEOCOORD:3412N/04401E) (VICINITY OF IRANIAN
BORDER) AND DOHUK (GEOCOORD:3652N/04301E) (VICINITY OF IRAQI BORDER) PROVINCES, IRAQ. THE WP CHEMICAL WAS DELIVERED BY ARTILLERY ROUNDS AND HELICOPTER GUNSHIPS (NO FURTHER INFORMATION AT THIS TIME)

2 Comments:

Blogger littlebitofsonshine said...

Nur i love how you put the god honest truth togther and express it in such a way its even more eye opening Bless you and all your works and way you write if u ever write a book or for anyone else let me know i would love to read it

4:50 PM  
Blogger Nur-al-Cubicle said...

You are so nice, sonshine! Thank you!

5:11 PM  

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