Israel nukes Gaza. Film at Eleven.

[dutch508]

Scurrilous  (1000+ posts)        Mon Jan-19-09 02:52 PM
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Arabs: Israel ammo in Gaza had depleted uranium
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x250992

"Arab nations accused Israel on Monday of blasting Gaza with ammunition containing depleted uranium and urged the International Atomic Energy Agency to investigate reports that traces of it had been found in victims of the shelling.

In a letter on behalf of Arab ambassadors accredited in Austria, Prince Mansour Al-Saoud, the Saudi Ambassador, expressed "our deep concern regarding the information ... that traces of depleted uranium have been found in Palestinian victims."

A final draft of the letter was made available to The Associated Press on Monday. It urgently requested IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei to "carry out a radiological and physical assessment in order to verify the presence of depleted uranium in the weaponry used by Israel ... in the Gaza Strip."

Officials at the Israeli mission to the IAEA said they were in no position to comment without having seen the letter.

IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming confirmed receipt of the letter and said a response might be issued later in the day."

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 Proof? We don't need no steekin' proof!

grannie4peace  (1000+ posts)        Mon Jan-19-09 02:54 PM
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1. of course it did, also in iraq

Israel is in Iraq?

But to be fair, there are plenty on DU trying to talk sense. Not that that helps.

bushmeister0 (1000+ posts)        Mon Jan-19-09 10:46 PM
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13. Wrong again, Mr. Psy-Ops
 AFP:

"Israel is testing a new 'extremely nasty' type of weapon in Gaza, two medics charged as they returned home to Norway Monday after spending 10 days working at a hospital in the war-torn Palestinian territory.

'There's a very strong suspicion I think that Gaza is now being used as a test laboratory for new weapons,' Mads Gilbert told reporters at Oslo's Gardermoen airport, commenting on the kinds of injuries he and his colleague Erik Fosse had seen while working at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza.

The two medics, who were sent into the war zone by the pro-Palestinian aid organisation NORWAC on December 31, said they had seen clear signs that Dense Inert Metal Explosives (DIME), an experimental kind of explosive, were being used in Gaza."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090112/wl_mideast_afp/mid...

democracynow.org:

"In addition to white phosphorous, medics and human rights groups are reporting they are seeing injuries distinctive of another controversial weapon. The munition, called DIME, for dense inert metal explosive, was designed to create a powerful blast over a small area. It was developed by the US Air Force in 2006. Those struck by the weapon who survive suffer severe mutilations and internal injuries. The weapon causes the tissue to be torn from the flesh. Unlike traditional munitions, there is said to be no shrapnel. Instead, particles of metals can be found in the bodies of those affected. Those residues have been found on victims in Gaza."

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/14/white_phosphorous...

NYT (Jan, 4):

"The casualties at Shifa on Sunday — 18 dead, hospital officials said, among a reported 30 around Gaza — were women, children and men who had been with children. One surgeon said that he had performed five amputations.

'I don’t know what kind of weapons Israel is using,' said a nurse, Ziad Abd al Jawwad, 41, who had been working 24 hours without a break. There is so much amputation."

It's amazing how devious these Hamas types are. To coordinate their propaganda so efficiently while they're hunkered down in some hospital basement. It's all a pack of lies!

So, nobody who knows squat about munitions says anything, but Israel is using advanced weapons...

[The Village Idiot]

They probably keep their munitions in the hospital basement... Israel should use a bunker buster

[DumbAss Tanker]

War isn't clean or pretty, no matter what partisans for either side of a conflict want to see in it.  Both Hamas and Israel have rather cavalier attitudes about civilian casualties in Gaza, if for somewhat different reasons.  It therefore sucks to be a civilian in Gaza. 

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

War isn't clean or pretty, no matter what partisans for either side of a conflict want to see in it.  Both Hamas and Israel have rather cavalier attitudes about civilian casualties in Gaza, if for somewhat different reasons.  It therefore sucks to be a civilian in Gaza. 

When you dress your children up as suicide bombers there are no civilians...only hostiles of varying heights.

As to the hollaballoo about "experimental weapons": I would love to ask these nuclear rocket surgeons about how they imagine new weapon systems should be fielded the first time.

[DumbAss Tanker]

When you dress your children up as suicide bombers there are no civilians...only hostiles of varying heights.

Oversimplifications like that are the fuel that drives both sides.  I'm sick of both of them.