Pulverized Tungsten//D.U.--US & Israel Targeting DNA In Gaza? Part I

[Guest guest]

Tungsten is element #74, uranium #92 of the 92 naturally occuring " star

stuff " --- element#'s 75/76/77 may be slightly more dense due to configuration,

but you can bet that these are VERY dense, easily surpassing lead (82) or

gold(79) or mercury(80). (Sp.G. abt 20 vs lead @ 11.3, almost double)

Make sure you check out the 4th reference so you can find out what DIME is.

 

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1502.shtml

 

 

US and Israel targeting DNA in Gaza? Part 1 of 3: The DIME Bomb, yet

another genotoxic weapon

By James Brooks

Online Journal Contributing Writer

 

 

Dec 5, 2006, 01:19

 

 

It’s been almost five months since the first report that Israeli drone

aircraft have been dropping a “mystery weapon” on Palestinians in the Gaza

Strip. Since then, news media around the world have run stories depicting the

strange and “horrific” wounds inflicted by the new bomb. The international press

has spoken with Palestinian doctors and medics who say Israel’s new device is a

kind of chemical weapon that has significantly increased the fatality rate among

the victims of Israeli attacks. [1] [2]

In mid-October, Italian investigators reported forensic evidence that suggests

the new weapon may also represent the near future of US “counterinsurgency

warfare.” Combined with photographs of the victims and testimony from attending

doctors, this evidence points to the use of Dense Inert Metal Explosives (DIME).

[3]

DIME is an LCD (“low collateral damage”) weapon developed at the US Air Force

Research Laboratory. Publicly, it is slated for initial deployment in 2008. DIME

bombs produce an unusually powerful blast within a relatively small area,

spraying a superheated “micro-shrapnel” of powdered Heavy Metal Tungsten Alloy

(HMTA). Scientific studies have found that HMTA is chemically toxic, damages the

immune system, rapidly causes cancer, and attacks DNA (genotoxic). [4-11]

It is unfortunate that the US media have virtually blacked out the story of

Israel’s new weapon, not least because our own military may soon be using it in

Iraq and Afghanistan. The story might also have told us something about the

grossly disproportionate brutality of Israel’s war on the Palestinian people --

reason enough for the media to suppress it. [12]

Thanks to the intrepid Italians, the story could even have introduced

Americans to their government’s DIME weapons program. This three-part article

will ask whether Israel is ‘testing’ US DIME bombs in the Gaza Strip, and

explore the workings, dangers, and projected use of DIME weapons and their roots

in depleted uranium (DU) research. These parallels will lead us to consider DIME

in its historical context, as the latest innovation in the US military’s

long-running development of genotoxic weapons.

“They cannot return to life again”

The first reports about ‘Israel’s new weapon’ came from Dr Joma Al-Saqqa,

chief of the emergency unit at Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa. Dr. Al-Saqqa

said that Israel was using “a new ‘chemical’ weapon” and its siege was “a live

exercise on a new ammunition that, so far, has resulted in killing 50

Palestinians and injuring 200.” He observed that, “despite the damage in

internal soft tissue in the bodies of injured people, the fragments were not

detected by X-ray. In other words, they had disappeared or dissolved inside the

body.” [13]

“There were usually entry and exit wounds,” Dr. Al-Saqqa reported. “When the

wounds were explored no foreign material was found. There was tissue death, the

extent of which was difficult to determine. . . . A higher deep infection rate

resulted with subsequent amputation. In spite of amputation there was a higher

mortality.” The effects of the weapon seemed “radioactive.” [14] [15]

According to Palestine News Network, Dr. Al-Saqqa “confirmed that there were

dozens of wounded legs and arms. Many of them had been burned from the inside,

and distorted to the point that they cannot return to life again.” [16]

“When the shrapnel hit the body, it causes very strong burns that destroy

the tissues around the bones . . . it burns and destroys internal organs, like

the liver, kidneys, and the spleen and other organs and makes saving the wounded

almost impossible. As a surgeon, I have seen thousands of wounds during the

Intifada, but nothing was like this weapon.” [17]

However, Dr. Al-Saqqa could not analyze the chemistry of the bizarre wounds.

On the first day of the siege, June 27, Israel had conveniently destroyed Gaza’s

only crime laboratory. [18]

Despite his pleas to the “international community” to investigate and lend

assistance in treating the victims, “no one has lifted a finger,” the doctor was

quoted in mid-July. “What we found were journalists who came to take pictures,

but as for the medical community, nothing.” [19]

On August 3, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) reported that

Commissioner-General Karen AbuZayd had visited Dr. Al-Saqqa’s hospital, “where

the staff is struggling to deal with wounds resulting in an unusually high

number of amputations.” Commissioner AbuZayd commented that “what we saw in

Al-Shifa . . . was rather horrific.” [20]

According to Merlin (Medical Emergency Relief International), “75 per cent of

war-wounded patients admitted at one hospital needed amputations” following an

Israeli attack on Gaza City. [21]

The World Health Organization was reportedly considering an investigation into

the injuries. Physicians for Human Rights - Israel “agreed to take away

fragments of tissue from the bodies of Palestinians killed during the recent

military operations in Gaza for possible analysis in Israel but urged the medics

to seek an international investigation.” [22]

Tungsten in tissue samples: A DIME weapon?

On October 19, Italy’s Rai24news televised an investigative report that

supplied crucial new information. The Italian investigators had tissue samples

from the victims in Gaza analyzed by Dr. Carmela Vaccaio at University Parma.

Dr. Vaccaio reportedly found “a very high concentration of carbon and the

presence of unusual materials, such as copper, aluminum and tungsten.” The

doctor concluded that her " findings could be in line with the hypothesis that

the weapon in question is DIME. "

Rai24news reporters also talked to Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Ben-Israel, former chief

of the Israeli Defense Force's (IDF's) weapons development program. General

Ben-Israel appeared to be familiar with DIME weapons. He explained that " one of

the ideas is to allow those targeted to be hit without causing damage to

bystanders or other persons. " [23]

The US Air Force refers to this emerging realm of weaponry as FLM (Focused

Lethality Munitions). FLM is expected to provide the ‘weapons of choice’ for

targeting “terrorists hiding among civilians,” as a cheerleading Wall Street

Journal article put it. [24]

With “focused lethality [and] higher energy materials . . . nano particles,

intelligent fuzing, [and] mass focus lethality,” the Air Force “will be able to

strike effectively, wherever and whenever necessary, with minimal collateral

damage.” Ominously, the military thinks these weapons will allow it to target

sites " previously off limits to the warfighter. " [25] [26]

This warfare of the future is reminiscent of what Israel has been doing for

years, but with one-ton bombs, 155-mm artillery shells, and tank-fired

antipersonnel flechette bombs. Are FLM weapons like DIME an improvement? Or will

they actually increase civilian casualties and suffering, and mimic depleted

uranium weapons by inducing disease and genetic damage in their victims? These

disturbing questions will be explored in the next installment of this article.

References

1) Palestinian injuries suggest Israel is using chemical weapons in Gaza,

Ma'an News, 7/10/2006

2) Israel used chemical weapons in Lebanon and Gaza, Jean Shaoul, wsws.org,

10/24/2006

3) Italian TV: Israel used new weapon prototype in Gaza Strip, Ha'aretz,

10/19/2006

4) Dense Inert Metal Explosive (DIME), GlobalSecurity.org, 10/18/2006

5) Abstract: Potential late health effects of depleted uranium and tungsten

used in armor-piercing munitions: comparison of neoplastic transformation and

genotoxicity with the known carcinogen nickel, Miller, AC, et al, PubMed,

11/26/2006

6) Neoplastic transformation of human osteoblast cells to the tumorigenic

phenotype by heavy metal–tungsten alloy particles: induction of genotoxic

effects, Miller, AC, et al, Carcinogenesis, Vol. 22, No. 1, 115-125, January

2001, Oxford University Press

7) Abstract: Carcinogenic Potential of Depleted Uranium and Tungsten Alloys,

Alexandra C Miller, Ph. D., Department Of Defense, Armed Forces Radiobiology

Research Institute (AFRRI)

8) Depleted uranium-catalyzed oxidative DNA damage: absence of significant,

alpha particle decay, Miller, AC, et al, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry,

Issue 91, 2002 pp. 246– 252

9) Embedded Weapons-Grade Tungsten Alloy Shrapnel Rapidly Induces Metastatic

High-Grade Rhabdomyosarcomas in F344 Rats, Kalinich et al, Environmental Health

Perspectives Volume 113, Number 6, June 2005

10) Abstract: Effect of the militarily-relevant heavy metals, depleted uranium

and heavy metal tungsten-alloy on gene expression in human liver carcinoma cells

(HepG2), Miller, AC, et al, SpringerLink/Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry,

1/1/2004

11) Preconceptional paternal exposure to radiation or heavy metals like

cadmium can induce cancer in unexposed offspring, Alexandra C. Miller, Rafael

Rivas, Robert J. Merlot and Paul, Carcinogenesis 5: Environmental and Endogenous

Carcinogens/Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, Volume 47, 2006

12) If Americans Knew

13) Israel 'is using chemical ammunition' in Gaza, Duraid Al Baik, Centre for

Research on Globalization/Gulf News, 6/13/2006

14) Are New Weapons Being Used In Gaza and Lebanon?, David Halpin MB BS FRCS,

Electronic Intifada, 8/14/2006

15) Ministry of Health report on toxic Israeli weapons confirmed by Gaza City

medical sources, Palestine News Network, 7/13/2006

16) ibid.

17) Doctors Report Unusual Weapon Used in Gaza, Pacifica/Free Speech Radio

News 7/11/2006

18) Israel 'is using chemical ammunition' in Gaza, Centre for Research on

Globalization/Gulf News, 6/13/2006

19) Ministry of Health report on toxic Israeli weapons confirmed by Gaza City

medical sources, Palestine News Network, 7/13/2006

20) UNRWA Commissioner-General Karen AbuZayd: " Please don't forget what's

going on in Gaza, " ReliefWeb/UNRWA, 8/3/2006

21) Hospitals in Gaza overwhelmed and running out of supplies, Electronic

Intifada/Merlin, 8/8/2006

22) Gaza doctors encounter 'unexplained injuries', Donald Macintyre, The

Independent 9/4/2006

23) Italian TV: Israel used new weapon prototype in Gaza Strip, Ha'aretz,

10/12/2006

24) Air Force seeks a bomb with less bang, Greg Jaffe, The Wall Street

Journal/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4/11/2006

25) Munition Technology Drivers, Col. Thomas “Mas” Masiell, Air Force Research

Laboratory, 12/1/2006

26) USAF Unfunded Priority List (UPL), SAF/FMB POC, FY 2007, February 2006,

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Depleted, it ain't!:

Maybe abortion/ AIDS/ malaria/aerosols/pharma represent more effective tools for

the population control guys and would rank higher ...SO FAR; but my money is on

DU in the long run.

Half life over a billion years...now appearing in

Bosnia/Afghanistan/Iraq/Seattle/Niceville/New Mexico/Somalia/etc. and soon to be

star attraction in IRAN.

Of 697,000 US soldiers in Gulf War I.. 250,000 are collecting PTSD benefits,

and another 250,000 have filed but have been denied, usually for ~improper

paperwork~..eg., use of the term Gulf War syndrome....which, of course, does not

exist....or claims of " burning semen " ...a non-existant " disorder " ..these guys

are usually

referred to mental health 'professionals'.... depleted uranium can't hurt you

...'cause it's " depleted " ..I am told...trouble is, it's 88% as radioactive as the

original. ( what a propaganda coup by the population control guys...calling it

" depleted " ...and referring any who question that it's safe to shrinks) Where' s

" our " media? Where're the bought and paid for D.C. whores on this?

We have sent way more than 697,000 to IRAQ this time around , and the level of

D.U. present is about 2000% of what was there in 1991..... what will

it be after IRAN is bombed?

70% of Iraqi births since 1992 are abnormal; a million Iraqi's, mostly kids,

are not alive today for the unpardonable sin of being born an Iraqi,

and asGeorge Galloway points out, they died before they even knew that they were

Iraqis...

I'm not big on Bible, especially Old Testament...but check Isaiah

1:21-24..

Isaiah 1:21 How the faithful city has become a prostitute!

<http://bible.cc/isaiah/1-21.htm> http://bible.cc/isaiah/1-21.htm

<http://bible.cc/isaiah/1-21.htm> ...for an uncanny description of the

mess we're in. (And since I have Bible pages open, may as well throw in

http://bible.cc/ezekiel/39-12.htm in http://bible.cc/ezekiel/39-12.htm which

describes a nuclear holocaust in Middle East---39-14 descrbes " clean-up " --after

WHAT?--this, of course was written 2700 trs ago

Over half of America's homeless are veterans. I ask you...if ex-college

professors, or lumberjacks, or brick layers or painters, or

proctologists

made up over half of our homeless population, would not there be an outcry and

investigation? Two (2) dead crows show up in Asia and accountability is required

with in 24hours.===snip====

KJV: And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that

they may cleanse the land.

KJV: Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them

a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.

" 'People will be chosen to go through the land and make it clean. With the

help of others they will bury the dead soldiers that are still on the ground. At

the end of seven months they will begin their search. (GOD'S WORD®)

KJV: And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's

bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the

valley of Hamongog

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