Horrifying US Secret Weapon Unleashed In Baghdad Exclusive By Bill Dash

A nightmarish US super weapon reportedly was employed by American ground forces
during chaotic street fighting in Baghdad. The secret tank-mounted weapon was
witnessed in all its frightening power by Majid al-Ghazali, a seasoned Iraqi
infantryman who described the device and its gruesome effects as unlike anything
he had ever encountered in his lengthy military service. The disturbing
revelation is yet another piece of cinematic evidence brought back from postwar
Iraq by intrepid filmmaker Patrick Dillon.

In the film, al-Ghazali, whose english is less than fluent, describes the weapon
as reminiscent of a flame thrower, only immensely more powerful. It is unclear
what principle the weapon is based on. Searching for a description, al-Ghazali
said it appeared to be shooting concentrated lightning bolts rather than just
ordinary flames. Drawing on his many years as a professional engineer,
al-Ghazali speculates that radiation of some kind probably figures into the
weapon�s hideous capabilities. Like all men in Saddam�s Iraq, al-Ghazali was
compelled to serve in the Iraqi equivalent of the Army National Guard and fought
in three wars over the past thirty-odd years. Via email, he told me he has seen
virtually every type of conventional weapon employed in battle, and is well
acquainted with their effects on people and machines, but nothing in his
extensive combat experience prepared him for the shock of what he saw in Baghdad
on April 12th.

On that date, al-Ghazali and his family sheltered in their house as a fierce
street battle erupted in his neighborhood. In the midst of the fighting, he
noticed that the Americans had called up an oddly configured tank. Then to his
amazement the tank suddenly let loose a blinding stream of what seemed like fire
and lightning, engulfing a large passenger bus and three automobiles. Within
seconds the bus had become semi-molten, sagging "like a wet rag" as he put it.
He said the bus rapidly melted under this withering blast, shrinking until it
was a twisted blob about the dimensions of a VW bug. As if that were not bizarre
enough, al-Ghazali explicitly describes seeing numerous human bodies shriveled
to the size of newborn babies. By the time local street fighting ended that day,
he estimates between 500 and 600 soldiers and civilians had been cooked alive as
a result of the mysterious tank-mounted device.

In a city littered everywhere with burned-out civilian and military vehicles, US
forces were abnormally scrupulous about immediately detailing bulldozers and
shovel crews to the job of burying the grim wreckage.  Nevertheless, telltale
remnants remained as Dillon found when al-Ghazali later took him to the site.
Dillon said they easily uncovered large puddles of resolidified metal and mounds
of weird fibrous material that, al-Ghazali explained, were all that remained of
the vehicles� tires.  Dillon, who accumulated plenty of battlefield experience
as a medic in Viet-Nam, and has since covered a number of wars from Somalia to
Kosovo, told me that he has witnessed every kind of conventional ordnance that
can be used on humans and vehicles. " I�ve seen a freaking smorgasbord of
destruction in my life," he said, "flame-throwers, napalm, white phosphorous,
thermite, you name it. I know of nothing short of an H-bomb that conceivably
might cause a bus to instantly liquefy or that can flash broil a human body down
to the size of an infant. God pity humanity if that thing is a preview of what�s
in store for the 21st century."

For Majid al-Ghazali, images of the terrifying weapon and its victims haunt his
every day. In addition to his work as an engineer, he is also a highly
accomplished classical violinist, occupying the first chair in the Baghdad
Symphony. He is widely acknowledged as one of the preeminent violinists in the
Middle East. Besides his family, one of his greatest joys is teaching at
Baghdad�s premier music conservatory. Unfortunately, the conservatory was
utterly destroyed. Yet somehow, despite the war�s horrors and its seemingly
endless privations, he manages to maintain a remarkably hopeful outlook. He
recently informed me that the Baghdad Symphony continues to exist and has been
invited to perform in the United States in December.

Copyright �2003 - Bill Dash

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