This is my first Diary so be gentle dear readers .... I searched and didn't find anything on this but if it is a repeat will immediately remove.
As a Viet Vet I always abhorred the use of "non specific" weapons like agent orange, napalm, etc but we are taking this "war" to even further levels than I ever could have imagined.
There is evidence that new DIME (Dense Inert Metal Explosive) LCD (Low Collateral Damage) bombs are being used in Palestine and coming to Iraq / Afghanistan soon. Now the "beauty" of this new weapon system is that it only kills in about a 25 foot radius with superheated micro shrapnel of powdered heavy metals. Oh, and did I mention - causes cancer in 100% of the victims, probably cannot be decontaminated in an area, and can cause DNA damage??
Here is the link for Part 1 of a 3 parter. http://www.onlinejournal.com/.... First it was DU, then Phospherous, now this ... is it only me or do others think the Middle east may be ground zero for testing new lethal weapons?
When the (micro)shrapnel hit[s] 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.
But since it has not been tested by the official weapons test labs it is not "illegal" to use.
The idea of FLM (Focused Lethality Munitions) is to reliably kill every human within the blast zone -- one way or another. It is ‘total war’ on a 50-foot circle, within which deaths are not admitted as collateral, but purchased as insurance.
Israel’s new weapon "slices" off its victims’ legs, leaving "signs of heat and burns near the point of the amputation." It’s "as if a saw was used to cut through the bone," according to Dr. Habas al-Wahid, head of the emergency room at Gaza’s Shuhada al-Aqsa hospital.
Gee prevents damage to buildings / oil fields and things we don't want to destroy.
And Finally:
Implanting four tiny bits of weapons-grade HMTA (Heavy Metal Tungsten Alloy) in lab mice induced terminal cancer in 100 percent of the subjects. A powdered HMTA recipe was tumor-generating and capable of "genotoxic effects." At least one experiment found parallels in the way DU and HMTA attack DNA. The results of another suggested that HMTA may pass its genetic damage down to the next generation. HMTA may be much more carcinogenic than DU when it is embedded in the body -- as intended. "Tumors developed rapidly" in rats implanted with pellets of HMTA, but researchers "did not observe tumor formation in the DU-implanted rats."
Sigh................