From: "Rich Gauszka" 

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
news:45455ea1{at}w3.nls.net...
>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=5
855&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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