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US soldiers involved in the Fallujah offensive (AFP)
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CAIRO,
November 25 (IslamOnline.net) - The United States has refuted media
reports that its forces have gassed people in the western Baghdad city
of Fallujah.
Such
press reports are “untrue,” Patricial Kabra, the Consul for Press
and Cultural Affairs in the US Embassy in Doha, Qatar, said in a
letter sent to IslamOnline.net on Wednesday, November 24.
The
letter came almost two weeks after IOL published a report
by the London-based Al-Quds Press news agency accusing US troops of
using chemical weapons and poisonous gas during its onslaught on
Fallujah.
Al-Quds
Press quoted unnamed sources, including a doctor who spoke on
condition of anonymity, as saying that dozens of civilians were killed
by these banned weapons.
“The
United States categorically denies the use of chemical weapons at
anytime in Iraq, which includes the ongoing Fallujah operation,”
Kabra said in his letter citing an official statement by the State
Department.
Some
10,000 US marines and army forces, alongside some 2,000 Iraqi national
guardsmen unleashed
a long-expected onslaught on the resistance hub
on November 8, capping long nights of massive US raids.
The
successive air strikes have caused huge damage in the western Baghdad
city, with dead bodies littering the streets.
In
August last year, the United States admitted
dropping the internationally-banned incendiary weapon of napalm on
Iraq, despite earlier denials by the Pentagon that the “horrible”
weapon had not been used in the three-week invasion of Iraq.
After
the offensive on Iraq ended on April 9 last year, Iraqis began to complain
about unexploded cluster
bombs that still litter their
cities.
