This has hit the news today. The story is that the White Phos which is used for Illum was used against insurgents, in Falujah, as a chemical weapon, this is in breach of international law and technically makes the user a war criminal. This story has, apparantly, appeared in an American military magazine. As usual the media has got a grip of this and is currently wheeling out all the experts to tell the civilian population how bad this stuff is and how those nasty Americans used "shake and bake" to fire into peoples houses and kill people. Question is do we believe this and, without giving the newshounds who read these forums a chance to quote a "service source", how do we feel about the media waving this around, especially as we, as service personnel in Iraq, get tarred with the same brush as some stupid yanks, and become "baby killing scum". On the radio at the moment Col Mike Dewar (Retd) has pointed out that, just by using it properly, you could contravene all the laws, if it fell into a group of insurgents, he also points out that in the heat of battle this could happen. Mods if this post is a bit controversial then by all means pull it, but I think, without some of the vitriol that appears in some posts, we could get a reasonably good for and against arguement that may make people think.