Reply #11: Link to Al Jazeera report - sounds like phosphorous not napalm

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http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=5875

...Other residents of that area also said that banned weapons were used. Abu Sabah, said; “They used these weird bombs that put up smoke like a mushroom cloud… then small pieces fall from the air with long tails of smoke behind them."

From the descriptions I'd say the effects described are consistent with phosphorous munitions and not napalm - The smoke trails clinch it for me. If you've ever seen phosphorus burn you know what I mean.

My uncle ran a trucking company in South Vietnam during the war in the late 1960s. He regularly sent us photos of trucks that had been phosphorous-bombed. They were melted to the axle level.

Look at this on another level - Napalm is good for defoliating areas quickly. That's what it was used for in Vietnam. There's nothing to defoliate in Fallujah. Using napalm as an anti-personnel weapon would violate every custom and tradition of war as well as the law. With the intense scrutiny being given this action I can't believe that members of the US military could be persuaded to do something so ghastly AND keep it a secret.