A documentary to be aired on Tuesday by Italian state satellite TV channel RAI News 24 alleges that US troops used chemical weapons during their assault on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah in November last year. The documentary - ‘Fallujah - the hidden massacre’ - uses witness accounts from former US soldiers, Fallujah residents, video footage and photographs, to support its claim that contrary to US State Department denials, white phosphorous was used indiscriminately on the city, causing terrible injuries to civilians, including women and children.

(View the documentary here (27 mins). Please be warned that some of the images are very, very disturbing.)

UPDATE: Time to start counting occurences of this story in the British media - I’m not expecting to have to get my abacus out. Still, here’s number one.