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Africa North
'US drops uranium bombs on Libya'
2011-03-28
[Iran Press TV] The Stop the War Coalition says the bombs and missiles that the US-led military alliance has dropped on several Libyan cities contain depleted uranium (DU).
That didn't take long...
The report recently published on the Coalition's website said that in the first 24 hours of the war on Libya, dozens of bombs and cruise missiles were launched by US, British, and French forces -- all with depleted uranium warheads.

US B-2 Arclight aircraft dropped forty-five 2,000-pound bombs on key Libyan cities, it added.

DU munitions are controversial because they raise long-term health concerns like kidney damage, cancer, skin disorders and genetic defects.
No worse than other heavy metals, and better than some...
"[Depleted uranium tipped missiles] fit the description of a dirty bomb in every way... I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people," said Marion Falk, chemical physicist (retd.), Lawrence Livermore Lab in Caliphornia.
Marion is being quoted at the Democratic Underground, Current TV (Al Gore's network), ConCen, and way back in 2004 by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Just so you know who's being quoted, since Iran Press TV unfortunately had space limitations on the web and couldn't be bothered to tell you.
The report comes as the Western forces claim the operation in Libya is aimed at protecting civilians.

Director of the US military's Joint Staff Bill Gortney has told news hounds at a Pentagon briefing that he is not aware of any use of depleted uranium munitions in Libya.

Libya says at least 114 people -- many of them civilians -- have been killed in US-led Arclight airstrikes in the country.

"We are losing many lives, military and civilians," Libyan government Spokesman Mussa Ibrahim said in Tripoli.
Mostly the civilians are the ones being killed by the mercenaries. The dead civilians then have their bodies displayed to the gullible press as 'victims' of airstrikes. Talk about indignity after death.
Dozens of civilians have been killed in Libya since US-led forces launched aerial and sea attacks on the North African country.

Libyan troops have also killed thousands of civilians since a revolution started against Colonel Qadaffy in mid-February.
Let's see: 'dozens' versus 'thousands': which ones will the peace groups focus on?
Posted by:Fred

#14  That reminds me, it might be time to dust off my Dense Inert Metal Infrared Incendiary High Explosive Armor Piercing Anti Personnel Heat Seeking Depleted Uranium White Phosphorus Napalm Hollow Point Laser Guided Flame Throwing Thermobaric Thermonuclear Cluster Bomb Munition design

What no red mercury?
Posted by: CincinnatusChili   2011-03-28 23:15  

#13  WTF do they not understand about the word DEPLETED ?
Posted by: The Other Beldar   2011-03-28 17:54  

#12  Frozen chickens fired at high velocity can take out a locomotive, or so the story about the British high speed train tests indicates.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2011-03-28 16:56  

#11  What makes depleted uranium deadly is that it gets fired out of a cannon at 4,000+ feet per second. Hell, if you got hit by a bowl of Cap'n Crunch or a goose-down pillow doing 4,000 FPS it would probably not be conducive to your continued existence.
Posted by: Mike   2011-03-28 14:44  

#10  Wait until they find out about the unrestrained neocon deployment of Newtonian Fluid.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2011-03-28 12:05  

#9  Civilian deaths? I was watching a show last night on the History Channel about the final days of the Third Reich. One of the little factoids they put on the screen was that 40 million Europeans died in WWII and, of those, 20 million were civilians. Let's face it, war is not healthy for children and other living things.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2011-03-28 12:03  

#8  My understanding is that DU is used as a kinetic penetrator against armored vehicles. That must be one hell of a tank to require a 2000 lb bomb using DU. I'm guessing this same guy has been using the old "this is 12 inches" line with the old lady.
Posted by: bigfingo   2011-03-28 11:29  

#7  Which is why the people that printed this to damage the Bush administration need to be charged with sedition and aiding and abetting the enemy during a time of war.
Posted by: DarthVader   2011-03-28 11:22  

#6  bombs kill?
Posted by: Spimble tse Tung2768   2011-03-28 07:58  

#5  WORLD NEWS > [NewsVine] HAARP DATA SAYS JAPAN QUAKE INDUCED. Video wid Jesse Ventura.

* Also from NewsVine > DID US NUKES TRIGGER JAPAN QUAKE?

* ISRAEL NN > SPACE DOMES COULD PROTECT CITIES FROM MISSLES + FALLOUT [various Space Junk- Debris].

[LOGAN'S RUN + "CAROUSEL" here].

* WORLD NEWS > [University of Texas, USGS] STUDY: BIG QUAKES [Mag 7.0 or higher] DON'T SET OFF QUAKES FAR AWAY.

HMMMM, HMMMM, so this Study is saying GUAM TAOTAMONAS + MADONNA are wrong?


HERESY, ITS HERESY, I SAY!

We'll see vee GLOBAL WARMING + QUAKE-HEARD/FELT-AROUND-THE WORLD.

Personally I stick wid the Babe + the Ghosts.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-03-28 02:55  

#4  The report comes as the Western forces claim the operation in Libya, similar to Obamacare is aimed at protecting civilians.
Posted by: Besoeker   2011-03-28 02:24  

#3  That reminds me, it might be time to dust off my Dense Inert Metal Infrared Incendiary High Explosive Armor Piercing Anti Personnel Heat Seeking Depleted Uranium White Phosphorus Napalm Hollow Point Laser Guided Flame Throwing Thermobaric Thermonuclear Cluster Bomb Munition design.
If only to piss off the hippies...
Posted by: tu3031   2011-03-28 02:20  

#2  OTOH GUAM PDN FORUMS > POSTER THREAD >[National Geographic]OOPSIE, JAPANESE SHIP DRILLING AT SEA MAY HAD CAUSED TSUNAMI ON JAPAN.

Explor vessel wid six miles of drill bits twere testin' + explorin' to drill all the way to the Earth's mantle.

[COMET APOPHIS 2029/30-2036; + "THE TIME MACHINE" REMAKE = CRACKED-MOON-IN-THE-SKY Scene here].

All we're missing is late 1960's-early 1970's GUAM TAOTAMONAS, + HUGO CHAVEZ'S, US-MADE ISLAND-DESTROYING/SINKING "EARTHQUAKE BOMBS"???

Future time.

["UNDER SIEGE II: DARK TERRITORY" CHINA QUAKE-CAUSING SPACE WEAPON here].

But I digress ...
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-03-28 02:01  

#1  I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people

If we are going to have a discussion about "depleted uranium bombs" (Jeez, not again!), shouldn't we drop some plain old non-depleted uranium bombs to provide a controlled comparison? Just to be all sciency and stuff.
Posted by: SteveS   2011-03-28 01:18  

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