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Old 9th Mar 2007, 10:47
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Googling "Is napalm legal" produced: <<Napalm was banned by United Nations convention in 1980, but the US never signed the agreement. Use of Mark-77 fire bombs is considered legal by the US ...>>

www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/08/1060145828249.html

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The proposed reservation of the United States would revise the legal ... Incendiary agents such as napalm and phosphorus are not considered to be CW agents ...

www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/incendiary-legal.htm

or

The use of firebombs “remarkably similar” to napalm is perfectly “legal”, and the use of white phosphorus as a weapon is totally “legitimate”. ...

www.yirmeyahureview.com/articles/napalm_phosphorus_iraq.htm
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