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"A woman described how on Tuesday Israeli forces "started to fire phosphorus bombs against the people" Please. Since when is a civilian woman a reliable source
by Rod 18y ago
"A woman described how on Tuesday Israeli forces "started to fire phosphorus bombs against the people"
Please. Since when is a civilian woman a reliable source of information on weaponry? Gimme a break! Bad journalism. What else could one expect from the Guardian?
- gaius 18y agoQuite. WP weapons are very distinctive; the explosion they make doesn't look like anything else and they leave chemical traces. It would be easy for any investigator to bring back conclusive evidence if there were any. Incidentally we used WP (grenades) during GW1.
- Rod 18y agoI have seen photos of WP being used against enemy soldiers in Vietnam. It's quite a unique explosion, indeed. Interesting that WP was used in GW1. Hadn't WP and Napalm been banned before 1991? I will believe in newspapers when they produce photos of WP being used against civilians in Gaza. Until then, it's nothing but fog of war, bad journalism and propaganda to me.
- gaius 18y agoIndeed. Note that I am not making a comment either way on whether WP was used; my problem is the sloppy journalism. Esp. from the Guardian, which has a reputation for anti-Israel bias - they need to be meticulous in their reporting from there to escape those accusations, and they're not being at all.
- DenisM 18y agoOr Iraq 2004: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus_use_in_Iraq http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus_use_in_Iraq
- gaius 18y agoAnd the video attached to that story is a trailer for Frost/Nixon! WTF!?
- chaostheory 18y agoApparently the UN also thinks it's phosphorus http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/yesterday-david.html http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/yesterday-david.html
- ComputerGuru 18y agoForget civilian women. Doctors from the Red Cross, the Doctors without Borders association, the UN, and others in Gaza providing aid have described the burns on the affected victims, many of which arrive at the conclusion that these burns can only be had as a result of white phosphorus. Take a look at this Creative Commons documentary by AlJazeera (forget their bias, just look at the facts presented by authorities in the video): http://cc.aljazeera.net/asset/language/english/gaza-white-phosphorous http://cc.aljazeera.net/asset/language/english/gaza-white-ph... Summary of clip: Israeli bombing with bombs of white flames. Children’s playing with the phosphorus fires from the bombs burning. Women speaking about the bombs being dropped and the burns it has caused. Young man with burnt wounds. Man in hospital. Doctor Medhath Abbas speaking. Israeli bombing with flames. Marc Garlasco speaking about the use of white phosphorus. Voxpops. Wide view of bombs bein used. Women crying. Fumes from the bombs dropped. Children playing with the flames of phosphorus. Aymen Mohyeldin PTC
- Dilpil 18y agoA small nitpick: Al Jazeera isn't biased any more than mainstream American networks are biased. In fact, many right wingers in the Arab world call it a mouthpiece for the west.
- ComputerGuru 18y agoActually I personally agree with you. But my aim was to get the point across, so I was covering all the bases :)