we've narrowed it down to two scenarios:
During the Israeli War on Lebanon in July/August 2006:
- Israel used bunker busting bombs wrapped in
enriched uranium [the stuff that's used in nukes]
- Israel used tactical nukes [small nukes that are being researched by the USA as the weapon of the future]
Scientists studying samples of soil from Israeli bombardment craters in south Lebanon have shown high radiation levels, suggesting uranium-based munitions were used, a British newspaper reported Saturday.
The samples were taken from two bomb craters in Khiam and At-Tiri and have been sent for further analysis to the Harwell laboratory in Oxfordshire, southern England, for mass spectrometry used by the Ministry of Defense, The Independent said.
The samples thrown up by Israeli heavy or guided bombs showed "elevated radiation signatures," Chris Busby, the British scientific secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, was quoted as saying.
Britain's Ministry of Defense has confirmed the concentration of uranium isotopes in the samples, the newspaper said.
In his initial report, Busby said there were two possible reasons for the contamination.
"The first is that the weapon was some novel small experimental nuclear fission device or experimental weapon (ex. a thermobaric weapon) based on the high temperature of a uranium oxidation flash," it said.
"The second is that the weapon was a bunker-busting conventional uranium penetrator weapon employing enriched uranium rather than depleted uranium," Busby was quoted as saying.
A photograph of the explosion of the first bomb shows large clouds of black smoke that might result from burning uranium, the newspaper said.
The 34-day Israeli offensive on Lebanon left at least 1,287 people, nearly all civilians, dead and 4,054 wounded. --AFP
do you still believe Israel's statement that it was after Hizballah, and not the prosperity of Lebanon??
-finkployd-
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