Talk:White phosphorus munition/Archives/2008/March

Use in AFGHANISTAN

The UK military are using the WP .. or White Phosphorous rockets in Afghanistan and even in 2006 , there is proof from UK military high ranking officials and more proof about it in this article..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5372768.stm

half way through the article a UK army is describing how the RAF are so incompitent that they almost hit their own UK army with 2 white phosphourous rockets.. disgraceful!

Surely this should be against human rights laws.. think of the dying children daily.. could this be how they killed 500 Afghanistanis in 1 hit in mid september 2006?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.203.188.145 (talk • contribs)

I'm moving this commentary from article to talk page on behalf of the anonymous poster. The article linked is likely describing illumination or marking rockets. ... "Harrier pilot 'couldn't identify the target', fired two phosphorus rockets" ... sounds like the pilot was trying to illuminate the area to better identify a target to me. Dual Freq 16:24, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

We should structure this a bit better. USA, UK and Israel are not the only ones using this. Wandalstouring 15:46, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

No need to act as if the UK is the only one using it, and then claiming that it is 'disgraceful' that we *nearly* hit our own guys. You have any idea how many British soldiers were killed by the USAF? Stop acting as if we are the only ones who do bad things in war time! 213.78.183.91 (talk) 22:03, 10 March 2008 (UTC)