US using napalm in Iraq

American officials lied to British ministers over the use of "internationally reviled" napalm-type firebombs in Iraq.
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Despite persistent rumours of injuries among Iraqis consistent with the use of incendiary weapons such as napalm, Adam Ingram, the Defence minister, assured Labour MPs in January that US forces had not used a new generation of incendiary
weapons, codenamed MK77, in Iraq.

But Mr Ingram admitted to the Labour MP Harry Cohen in a private letter obtained by The Independent that he had inadvertently misled Parliament because he had been misinformed by the US. "The US confirmed to my officials that they had not used MK77s in Iraq at any time and this was the basis of my response to you," he told Mr Cohen. "I regret to say that I have since discovered that this is not the case and must now correct the position."

Mr Ingram said 30 MK77 firebombs were used by the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in the invasion of Iraq between 31 March and 2 April 2003. They were used against military targets "away from civilian targets", he said.This avoids breaching the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), which permits their use only against military targets.

You remember napalm, right?



Excellent approach to minimizing the attention paid to Amnesty's "gulag" epithet, I'd say. So let's all go back to Vietnam parallels for a few weeks, shall we?

Like, um, fragging.

Then maybe we can talk about end game a bit...