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2006-10-28 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Robert Fisk: Mystery of Israel's secret uranium bomb

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Posted by elbud 2006-10-28 06:17|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Long-winded bastard, isn't he. So what he is saying is that Israel should fight strictly by the rules, but Hizbollah, well , there isn't much critique of Hizbollah here. So Hizbollah can fight out of uniform, use civilians as cover, use mosques and civilian homes as firing positions, and Israel must play it by the book.

Sure.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-10-28 08:24|| 2006-10-28 08:24|| Front Page Top

#2 *I* especially like the part about taking naturally-radioactive uranium, taking almost all the radioactive stuff out, and what remains is "waste products of the nuclear industry".

Posted by Bobby 2006-10-28 08:29|| 2006-10-28 08:29|| Front Page Top

#3 If only the Israelis would beat him to a bloody pulp like the Afghanis did, then he'd adore them.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-28 09:32|| 2006-10-28 09:32|| Front Page Top

#4 If 'elevated radiation levels' are found at the crater of an Israeli bomb (this war), I would expect it indicates the Israelis blew up a 'dirty bomb' factory.

Posted by Angort Slons8752 2006-10-28 09:33|| 2006-10-28 09:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Robert Fisk. Just the name makes me smile. A man whose name will go down in history as one who wrote such pieces of senseless garbage that it was necessary to deconstruct them line by line.

Posted by anon 2006-10-28 10:45|| 2006-10-28 10:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Useless moron. If Israel wanted to be serious, they would quit using laser guided bombs. Instead, they should take out entire neighborhoods with old style dumb bombs, followed by the very low tech, but very effective, dispersal of napalm to completely burn out the area. Anyone in bunkers would likely either be immediately torched or suffocated. No high tech nonsense needed, just common sense.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-10-28 11:15|| 2006-10-28 11:15|| Front Page Top

#7 And having reached the point of ruthlessness.

Posted by lotp 2006-10-28 12:12|| 2006-10-28 12:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Wars are ruthless. If you've been through it, it is without saying. The only question is who inflicts the damage. If you sit on your PC ass, the Muzzies will have no hesitation in destroying you and yours. Mindset is the largest obstacle in waging war, always.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-10-28 12:30|| 2006-10-28 12:30|| Front Page Top

#9 The moral is to the physical as three is to one.

Posted by Napoleon Buonaparte 2006-10-28 12:53|| 2006-10-28 12:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Just so we are clear, it is not as if the Iranian establishment believes it needs an excuse to develop and deploy nuclear weapons against Israel. But this new lie is exactly the sort of pretext Iran may find useful to further rally support among the idiots. Fisk is doing the mullahs work for them again.

Posted by Flea 2006-10-28 12:59|| 2006-10-28 12:59|| Front Page Top

#11 American and British forces used hundreds of tons of depleted uranium (DU) shells in Iraq in 1991 - their hardened penetrator warheads manufactured from the waste products of the nuclear industry - and five years later, a plague of cancers emerged across the south of Iraq.

Seriously, how many hundreds of times has this canard been shot down? What a self-righteous, lying prick this guy is.

Posted by Raj 2006-10-28 13:02|| 2006-10-28 13:02|| Front Page Top

#12 Long-winded bastard, isn't he.

But not as long-winded as this article. It's printed twice here. It begins again just before the ~~pink~~ salmon comment about civilians.

The second is that the weapon was a bunker-busting conventional uranium penetrator weapon employing enriched uranium rather than depleted uranium.

Because, heaven knows, enriched uranium grows on trees and is cheaper than dirt, so why not use it everywhere?

A photograph of the explosion of the first bomb shows large clouds of black smoke that might result from burning uranium.

(Or tires.)

It's true! Clouds of thick black smoke! I saw it on Reuters!

Posted by Angie Schultz 2006-10-28 13:07|| 2006-10-28 13:07|| Front Page Top

#13 This is also part of the grand tranzi project to cripple the militaries of free peoples; use smoke grenades that contain phosphorus? You just committed a war crime!

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2006-10-28 13:28|| 2006-10-28 13:28|| Front Page Top

#14 And they sure did! Smoke can give you lung cancer! Fiends!

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-28 13:34|| 2006-10-28 13:34|| Front Page Top

#15 Fisk is basically an Arab condom - trying to protect them from the consequences of their urges

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-10-28 13:55|| 2006-10-28 13:55|| Front Page Top

#16 Oh, to be a verb.

Posted by .com 2006-10-28 14:58|| 2006-10-28 14:58|| Front Page Top

#17 What horseshit. If Israel was going to use any sort of radioactive weapon, their enemies would never know it because they'd all be dead. This sort of terrorist enabling garbage is worse than shameful, it's sleeping with the enemy. Why doesn't this asshole just fellate all the Arabs he can find. It's the only thing he could do that would improve their morale even more than him writing this shit.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-28 23:48|| 2006-10-28 23:48|| Front Page Top

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