Monday, September 04, 2006

Gaza doctors encounter 'unexplained injuries'

Beside especially severe burning "down to the bones", the doctors say that, in other cases, internal organs have been ruptured without any obvious sign of shrapnel wounds.

While a report from the Hamas-run Ministry of Health said the injuries raised the possibility Israel could be using "unprecedented" projectiles with "radiant" substances, the medics acknowledge that there is no proof so far of their claims. They also admit that the difficulty of establishing the exact cause of death is greatly exacerbated by the reluctance of most bereaved Palestinian families to allow autopsies.

(Via Unknown Country.)


Microwave lasers?

7 comments:

jezzie said...

... in other cases, internal organs have been ruptured without any obvious sign of shrapnel wounds.
I read that, and even before reading your theory, the first thing I thought was "Microwaves!"

What better way to scamble your enemies insides?

W.M. Bear said...

Microwave lasers?

Could be. Evidently, the U.S. Army has developed antipersonnel directed-energy weapons of this sort and has them in the test phase. (This is, interestingly, unclassified info; otherwise, I wouldn't know it!) So it certainly wouldn't surprise me if the U.S. "loaned" some of these to Israel to test out for us under real battlefield conditions. (Restraining myself from a rant about THAT cozy little arrangement, which evidently extends to other weapons systems as well.)

Mac said...

Let's just hope Rense doesn't grab hold of this -- assuming he hasn't...

stankan said...

It is called propaganda bullshit, along the same lines as Israel was behind 9/11, or the Protocols of Zion, or any other number of plots and conspiracies the Jews are responsible for.
If you believe this stuff, send me an email. I have a very nice bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan I'd like to sell you.

Stan

Mac said...

It is called propaganda bullshit, along the same lines as Israel was behind 9/11, or the Protocols of Zion, or any other number of plots and conspiracies the Jews are responsible for.

Oh, please. While I'm certainly wary of -- and disgusted with -- the usual anti-Semitic drek disguised as criticism of Israel, must we assume that *any* charge leveled against Israel is misguided claptrap?

I don't "believe" or disbelieve; I merely found the story intriguing and worth a look.

Chill out.

jezzie said...

My husband worked logistics at the Pentagon back in the early '90s. You'd be amazed at the amount of crap our military doled out to our allies.

He'd literally be given a budget worth millions, and a "shopping list" of weapons and supplies to spend it on. Not that I can say who got it, or what they got, 'cause that's still classified.

But, if the Israelites managed to get one of these experimental weapons out of a load of stuff we sent them? It wouldn't surprise me a bit.

W.M. Bear said...

My first reaction was, "Oh, right." Especially when I saw the phrase "radiation projectiles," since ANY kind of "projectile" would leave a highly visible exterior wound. However, when I reread the descriptions of the wounds themselves, I realized they wouldn't have been made by ANY sort of "projectile" -- that's then whole point. But it also convinced me that since the person describing the injuries obviously had NO CLUE about what kind of weapon might actually have caused them, this made me think that the description was at least believABLE. Like Mac (from whom I learned the trick) I always leave it at that too, in the absence of any corroborating evidence. It's certainly PLAUSIBLE to the U.S. would have have "loaned" Israel directed-energy weapons to try out under battlefield conditions. This kind of speculation is not even in the same league with the "protocols." (In fact, I don't even see how it can be considered anti-Israeli let alone anti-semitic. It's a known fact that the U.S. lends and even gives Israel some of our latest weaponry. Israel is, after all, our main ally in the Middle East.)