From: "Mark" 

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? Their
purpose seems to be (as far as I can determine) to stir things up
unnecessarily, so they can "tsk tsk stroke the chin" when Iran
takes their BS seriously.


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> Or Israel just used some our of the depleted uranium shells against
> civilian targets  as they did with the cluster bombs.
>
> It may be that Israel's use of 'weaponry which is not authorised'  is
> similar to Bush's 'we do not tortue'
>
>
> "Mark"  wrote in message
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>> Sounds to me like they're wetting their pants with idle conjecture whilst
>> unintentionally(?) laying the groundwork to justify a future nuke attack
>> by Iran on Israel. > theory laden spare time>
>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>> news:45440f33$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Wonder is they'll let Harwell laboratory publish the results?
>>>
>>>
http://www.pej.org/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=5
855&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
>>> But scientific evidence gathered from at least two bomb craters in Khiam
>>> and At-Tiri, the scene of fierce fighting between Hizbollah guerrillas
>>> and Israeli troops last July and August, suggests that uranium-based
>>> munitions may now also be included in Israel's weapons inventory - and
>>> were used against targets in Lebanon. According to Dr Chris Busby, the
>>> British Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation
>>> Risk, two soil samples thrown up by Israeli heavy or guided bombs showed
>>> "elevated radiation signatures". Both have been
forwarded for further
>>> examination to the Harwell laboratory in Oxfordshire for mass
>>> spectrometry - used by the Ministry of Defence - which has confirmed the
>>> concentration of uranium isotopes in the samples.
>>>
>>> Dr Busby's initial report states that there are two possible reasons for
>>> the contamination. "The first is that the weapon was some
novel small
>>> experimental nuclear fission device or other experimental weapon (eg, a
>>> thermobaric weapon) based on the high temperature of a uranium oxidation
>>> flash ... The second is that the weapon was a bunker-busting
>>> conventional uranium penetrator weapon employing enriched uranium rather
>>> than depleted uranium." A photograph of the explosion of
the first bomb
>>> shows large clouds of black smoke that might result from burning
>>> uranium.
>>>
>>> ..
>>>
>>> Asked by The Independent if the Israeli army had been using
>>> uranium-based munitions in Lebanon this summer, Mark Regev, the Israeli
>>> Foreign Ministry spokesman, said: "Israel does not use any weaponry
>>> which is not authorised by international law or international
>>> conventions." This, however, begs more questions than it
answers. Much
>>> international law does not cover modern uranium weapons because they
>>> were not invented when humanitarian rules such as the Geneva Conventions
>>> were drawn up and because Western governments still refuse to believe
>>> that their use can cause long-term damage to the health of thousands of
>>> civilians living in the area of the explosions.
>>>
>>> Chris Bellamy, the professor of military science and doctrine at
>>> Cranfield University, who has reviewed the Busby report, said:
"At worst
>>> it's some sort of experimental weapon with an enriched uranium component
>>> the purpose of which we don't yet know. At best - if you can say that -
>>> it shows a remarkably cavalier attitude to the use of nuclear waste
>>> products."
>>>
>>> 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

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