Word: phosphorus
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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...They lacked a joint command-and-communications system and were dependent largely on weapons and ammunition abandoned by Iraqi soldiers as they fled the allies. The holy sites of Karbala and Najaf, so meticulously avoided by coalition bombing raids, were reportedly ravaged. In some cases targeted with napalm and phosphorus, thousands of civilians streamed toward the southern sector of the country occupied by U.S. troops. Ordered not to intervene, American soldiers could offer little more than food, water and medical assistance...
...flying over Kuwait and Iraq had another window into the darkness. Affixed to F-16s, F-15Es and other attack aircraft is an imaging system called LANTIRN (low-altitude navigation and targeting infrared system for night), which illuminates objects with infrared beams. This system projects the view on a phosphorus screen in the cockpit. Objects appear as yellow-green shapes in an image that resembles a photographic negative...