Sunnis demand probe of torture allegations
(AP)
Updated: 2005-11-16 21:51

Use of white phosphorous is not banned but is covered by Protocol III of the 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons. The protocol prohibits use of the substance as an incendiary weapon against civilian populations and in air attacks against military forces in civilian areas. The United States is not a signatory to the convention.

The battle for Fallujah was the most intense and deadly fight of the war, after the fall of Baghdad in April 2003.

Also on Wednesday, British Prime Minister Tony Blair ruled out sending more of his country's troops to Iraq to seal the porous border with Iran. His government has recently accused Iran's Revolutionary Guard of giving Iraqi insurgents bomb-making technology, and has said that weapons and fighters are smuggled across the poorly protected border.

Britain has about 8,500 troops in Iraq.