From: "Mark" 

 I'm glad we rushed "bunker-buster" bombs to Israel.
I wish we'd put
them to use ourselves, before it's too late.

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00452.htm
> [ Middle East News Service comment: This story has already created some
> interest in the Israeli media but just how serious it has been taken is
> yet to be seen with today being the start of the working week and with
> today's edition of some of the dailies available in a few hours. For its
> part, the Independent took this item seriously featuring it as its cover
> story. The paper also included a scientific analysis by Chris Bellamy but
> essentially it said that only Israel can explain the mystery.
>
> It did explain, however, more about the isotope ratio being 108. "The
> Khiam sample, with 108 parts U-238 to one of U-235 - just under one per
> cent - is clearly enriched [uranium]- but not much." Einyan Merkazi
> (Hebrew only) suggests that these bombs were US-made GBU-28 Bunker Busters
> rushed to Israel at the beginning of the war. [The US had to apologise to
> the British Government for notifying it of the delivery while the planes
> made a fuelling stop in Scotland.]
>
> The site's suggestion of the kind of bomb involved may be pure
> speculation. What is not speculation is Einyan Merkazi's other comment:
> "As usual under these circumstance Israel starts by denying and that's
> just what the Foreign Ministry Spokesperson did. But just like the cases
> of the phosphorus bombs and the cluster bombs a correction version will
> eventually be issued." -Sol Salbe.]
>
>
>
> "Mark"  wrote in message
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>>I feel a bit foolish in bothering to reply at all, I based my reply on
>>Rich's excerpts and never actually followed the link, had I seen where it
>>led, I'd have just passed as it's obviously foolishness.
>>
>> Anyway, I just ran across this entry at Belmont Club that led to my
>> discovery of the source:
>> http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2006/10/its-true-honest.html
>>
>> The first two words say all that needs to be said:
>> "Robert Fisk suggests that Israel used "a secret new
uranium-based weapon
>> in southern Lebanon this summer in the 34-day assault that cost more than
>> 1,300 Lebanese lives, most of them civilians". (Hat tip Tim Blair)
>>
>> Wow. Just imagine how many secret atomic bombs it would have taken to
>> kill 655,000 Iraqis as proved by Lancet since it took 34 days of nonstop
>> bombing to kill 1,300 Lebanese with Jewish nuclear weapons. This is the
>> amazing thing about news stories which by constant repetition have become
>> fact. America and the Jews have all these horrifying weapons, yet despite
>> their brutal use over extended periods they have absolutely failed to hit
>> any significant numbers of the enemy and only succeed in killing
>> children, kittens and Red Cross ambulances. Against incompetents like
>> America, the Keystone Cops would have succeeded long ago."
>>
>>
>> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
>> news:454479d8{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> There is another possible explanation, assuming for sake of argument
>>> that these reports of isotopes and their measurement are anywhere near
>>> accurate. That explanation could be that Hezbollah had radioactive
>>> material supplied by Iran or Syria or both that they were housing at
>>> those munitions locations for use in dirty bomb attacks upon Israel.
>>>
>>> Any rational person would have to agree that if there was uranium found
>>> it was there because it was Hezbollah's uranium supplied by Iran and/or
>>> Syria. Could be a good reason such locations were bombed and  why they
>>> were defended by Hezbollah so fiercely during the battles.
>>>
>>> But those with bigoted views and a biased mind would never think of this
>>> possibility.
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>> "Phil Payne"
 wrote in message
>>> news:454475b7$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> "Mark"  wrote in message
>>>> news:45441f88{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>> Oh, I have no doubt, not one in a million years, that
it's nothing
>>>>> more
>>>> than
>>>>> DU, but that those dweebs are playing it up like it's
some nefarious
>>>> nuclear
>>>>> test is dangerous stuff indeed -- but what do they care?
>>>>
>>>> This the same "no doubt" you had about
biological, chemical and nuclear
>>>> weapons in Iraq?  The same "no doubt" that you
had about rape rooms and
>>>> hundreds of kilometres of tunnels under Baghdad?
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.pej.org/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=
5855&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
>>>>
>>>> "The soil sample from Khiam - site of a notorious
torture prison when
>>>> Israel
>>>> occupied southern Lebanon between 1978 and 2000, and a frontline
>>>> Hizbollah
>>>> stronghold in the summer war - was a piece of impacted red
earth from
>>>> an
>>>> explosion; the isotope ratio was 108, indicative of the presence of
>>>> enriched
>>>> uranium."
>>>>
>>>> Personally, I find just about any source more credible
than you, and an
>>>> isotope ratio comes quite close to the front.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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