DrumGit, Curtis Cunningham’s blog.

… and has then apparently lied to UK officials, showing how little weight the UK carries in influencing American policy.”

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I’d read about this last year.. I read somewhere the Iraqis saying the US was using napalm against them. I found it hard to believe then.. turns out it’s been true all along. I’ve lost count of how many stories that go unreported by mainstream media that then get broader coverage 6-12 months later when the evidence and outcry mounts to the point it can’t be ignored anymore, e.g. the Downing Street Memo(s).Isn’t it great that we’re killing them to demonstrate that killing others is such a bad thing?? I’m sure that’ll teach them a lesson.

More of the napalm story follows …

The US State Department website admitted in the run-up to the election that US forces had used MK77s in Iraq. Protests were made by MPs, but it was only this week that Mr Ingram confirmed the reports were true.

Mike Moore, the Liberal Democrat defence spokes-man, said: “It is very serious that this type of weapon was used in Iraq, but this shows the US has not been completely open with the UK. We are supposed to have a special relationship.

“It has also taken two months for the minister to clear this up. This is welcome candour, but it will raise fresh questions about how open the Government wished to be… before the election.”

The MK77 bombs, an evolution of the napalm used in Vietnam and Korea, carry kerosene-based jet fuel and polystyrene so that, like napalm, the gel sticks to structures and to its victims. The bombs lack stabilising fins, making them far from precise.

Full story

The full story appears to be broken, or gone.. or something.

I found this related one on the Independent.co.uk site:

US lied to Britain over use of napalm in Iraq war
By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor
Published: 17 June 2005

American officials lied to British ministers over the use of “internationally reviled” napalm-type firebombs in Iraq.