"According to the Sunday Times article (including photograph of same "around the village of Donga in the Korengal Valley, eastern Afghanistan."

White Phosphorus munitions are used to mark targets - True? And the article did say that the US troops were in contact with insurgents so in this instance there was no question about civilians being targeted with WP by US Forces

"It has been claimed that they used it against civilans in Iraq - why not; they seem to have gone in for that sort of thing."

Oh Jim a shit load of things can be CLAIMED but that does not necessarily meant that things actually happened does it.

And from quoting those two instances (one where no civilians were targeted and the other where no substantive proof exists) you have the bloody nerve to level the accusation that "they seem to have gone in for that sort of thing"

But we both know organisations that did deliberatley target civilians, their whole campaign was based on that very tactic, and who, if they could have got hold of WP munitions they would have used it without a second thought.