{"id":933,"date":"2005-06-17T00:59:51","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T04:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=933"},"modified":"2005-06-17T00:59:51","modified_gmt":"2005-06-17T04:59:51","slug":"american-officials-lied-to-british-ministers-over-the-use-of-napalm-type-firebombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=933","title":{"rendered":"American officials lied to British ministers over the use of  napalm-type firebombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/politics\/story.jsp?story=647397\">17 June 2005 <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yesterday&#8217;s disclosure led to calls by MPs for a full statement to the Commons and opened ministers to allegations that they held back the facts until after the general election.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ingram did not explain why the US officials had misled him, but the US and British governments were accused of a cover-up. The Iraq Analysis Group, which campaigned against the war, said the US authorities only admitted the use of the weapons after the evidence from reporters had become irrefutable.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Lewis, a spokesman for the group, said: &#8220;The US has used internationally reviled weapons that the UK refuses to use, and has then apparently lied to UK officials, showing how little weight the UK carries in influencing American policy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iraqanalysis.org\/\">Iraq Analysis Group<\/a>&#8216;s report: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iraqanalysis.org\/briefings\/232\">Fire Bombs in Iraq: Napalm By Any Other Name<\/a> (Apr 2005).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor 17 June 2005 Yesterday&#8217;s disclosure led to calls by MPs for a full statement to the Commons and opened ministers to allegations that they held back the facts until after the general election. [&#8230;] &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=933\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-f3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}