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Jan 14th, 2009 at 8:07pm
 
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ISRAEL is testing a new "extremely nasty" type of weapon in Gaza, two medics charged as they returned home to Norwayafter spending 10 days working at a hospital in the war-torn Palestinian territory.

"There's a very strong suspicion I think that Gaza is now being used as a test laboratory for new weapons," Mads Gilbert said at Oslo's Gardermoen airport, commenting on the kinds of injuries he and his colleague Erik Fosse had seen while working at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza.

The two medics, who were sent into the war zone by the pro-Palestinian aid organisation NORWAC on December 31, said they had seen clear signs that Dense Inert Metal Explosives (DIME), an experimental kind of explosive, were being used in Gaza.

"This is a new generation of very powerful small explosives that detonates with an extreme power and dissipates its power within a range of five to 10 metres," Mr Gilbert, 61, said.

"We have not seen the casualties affected directly by the bomb because they are normally torn to pieces and do not survive, but we have seen a number of very brutal amputations ... without shrapnel injuries which we strongly suspect must have been caused by the DIME weapons," he said.

The weapon "causes the tissue to be torn from the flesh. It looks very different (from a shrapnel injury). I have seen and treated a lot of different injuries for the last 30 years in different war zones, and this looks completely different", Mr Fosse, 58, said.

"If you are in the immediate (vicinity of) a DIME weapon, it's like your legs get torn off. It's an enormous pressure wave and there is no shrapnel," he explained.

Mr Gilbert also accused Israel of having used the weapon in the 2006 Lebanon war and previously in Gaza, and referred to studies showing wounds from the explosive could cause lethal forms of cancer within just four to six months.

"Israel should disclose what weapons they use and the international community should make an investigation," he said, stressing the amount of damage apparently caused by the new form of explosive.

"We are not soft-skinned when it comes to war injuries, but these amputations are really extremely nasty and for many of the patients not survivable," he said.


http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24905242-23109,00.html
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Reply #1 - Jan 14th, 2009 at 9:01pm
 
yes medics know all about new nasty weapons...

You are kidding right...  what sort of damage do suicide bombers and missiles do?

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Reply #2 - Jan 14th, 2009 at 9:25pm
 
You'd think if these medicos had seen war wounds from all types of weaponry, and a bunch of wounded appear with injuries of a type not seen before, they could deduce that something new was being used.
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Reply #3 - Jan 14th, 2009 at 9:44pm
 
If they can't say how horrible suiside belts are for little kids bodies they probably are from pro-hamas propaganda unit. Is there any mention about what pro organisation they are from in the article?
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Reply #4 - Jan 14th, 2009 at 9:51pm
 
You think run of the mill medicos have great knowledge about "new" weaponry?

ROTFLMAO
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Reply #5 - Jan 15th, 2009 at 4:24am
 
tallowood,

suicide belts just use conventional explosives, like what's in all the bombs Israel's dropped on civilians in Gaza. There's no difference, except for the delivery method. The Israeli method costs billions of dollars in US taxpayers money each year, whilst the Palestinian method costs very little.

As for the medics, I read somewhere they're from a Norweigen volunteer medical organisation.
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Reply #6 - Jan 15th, 2009 at 6:44am
 
So they don't blow legs off and kill people and the wounds aren't nasty?
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Reply #7 - Jan 15th, 2009 at 7:05am
 
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You think run of the mill medicos have great knowledge about "new" weaponry?

ROTFLMAO


Of course they would.  They obviously couldn't name the weapon - but like any injury there are identifiable indications.

They are professionals and can see the difference in injuries eg. limbs torn off in a serated or smooth way or similar signs as Easel said.

Why would anyone not think the US would supply Israel with experimental new bombs?

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Reply #8 - Jan 15th, 2009 at 7:07am
 
Don't be stupid mantra
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Reply #9 - Jan 15th, 2009 at 7:08am
 
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Good answer Grendel - is that the best you could come up with?   Cheesy
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Reply #10 - Jan 15th, 2009 at 11:22am
 
Better than anything you've come up with mantra...   Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
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Reply #11 - Jan 15th, 2009 at 11:30am
 
Grendel wrote on Jan 14th, 2009 at 9:01pm:
yes medics know all about new nasty weapons...

You are kidding right...  what sort of damage do suicide bombers and missiles do?


Here he is reporter boofy boof in the heat of the action, what say you boof? aww I say the medics know nothing of the weapons
Newsdesk-So you're an expert on weapons are you boofy?
boofy-aw yea
newsdesk-so tell us what you know?
boofy-aw well I'm not really there so I have no idea
newsdesk-So nothing has changed,you are  just parroting the Israel line

boof-aw yea.
and now back to the studio.
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Reply #12 - Jan 15th, 2009 at 11:39am
 
abu_rashid wrote on Jan 15th, 2009 at 4:24am:
tallowood,

suicide belts just use conventional explosives, like what's in all the bombs Israel's dropped on civilians in Gaza. There's no difference, except for the delivery method. The Israeli method costs billions of dollars in US taxpayers money each year, whilst the Palestinian method costs very little.

As for the medics, I read somewhere they're from a Norweigen volunteer medical organisation.



Actually they are from "pro-Palestinian" organisation. That and luck of their medical experience makes rumours suitable for hamas propaganda.
Easel like good funny rumours so do I but rumours are rumours, they are not facts.

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Reply #13 - Jan 15th, 2009 at 11:55am
 
Well Easels initial post sounded totally plausible to me, mind you I am no expert, but what mantra and the others said about medics in war zones having enough experience to make such judgements, also sounds fair enough.

It does raise the very legitimate question of just what weaponry the Israelis are using, and is what they use, the best for getting their stated aim achieved, which is to take out Hamas, with minimum possible collateral casualties amongst the civilian population?

Now Israel should be transparent on this issue, if they want to continue to receive the moral support of the civilised world.

There may very well be good reason to employ a weapon with a strong, but limited blast area, when trying to take out specific locales, where terrorists are located, while minimising damage to surrounding buildings and people, but if that is the case, then they should say so.
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Reply #14 - Jan 15th, 2009 at 12:03pm
 
tallowood wrote on Jan 15th, 2009 at 11:39am:
Actually they are from "pro-Palestinian" organisation. That and luck of their medical experience makes rumours suitable for hamas propaganda.
Easel like good funny rumours so do I but rumours are rumours, they are not facts.



Don't speak on my behalf. I like rumours based on fact. I don't like any of the rumours you manage to come up with.
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