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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Belgian Leb doctor: Israel using chemical weapons
2006-07-21
BRUSSELS — The Israeli military is using chemical weapons during its bombing of Lebanon, a Belgian-Lebanese professor claimed during a press conference in Brussels on Thursday. The press conference was organised by the secretary of the Tripoli archbishop, Monsignor Jean Abboud. The Belgian professor of Lebanese origin, Bachir Cham, is the head of a hospital in Lebanon.

"The bodies don't look like they normally do. After an explosion there were no traces of blood loss or subcutaneous haemorrhages [bruises]," Cham said via mobile phone direct from Beirut. The hair and sometimes the beard and the moustache remained intact. I found no traces of the pressure wave by the explosion. The colour of the skin was black like a shoe, but the skin was not carbonised or burnt."

Eight mummy-like bodies were taken to the hospital on Monday and photos taken of the corpses. Two children's bodies showed no indication of wounds resulting from an explosion. "I have the impression that a poisonous product penetrated the body via the skin. Death follows with almost 100 percent certainty," the professor said. A heart specialist, Mohammad Farran, said letters had been sent to the UN and the EU drawing their attention to the alleged use of chemical weapons by Israel in Lebanon.

Meanwhile, Arab, Lebanese and Belgian fellow travellers peace activists protested for fourth consecutive day in front of the EU headquarters in Brussels against the Israeli attacks in Lebanon. Placards carried by the protestors read: "Israel today is committing a deliberate crime against Lebanon" and "Stop Israeli terrorism".
Posted by:Seafarious

#10  Perhaps these people were in a bunker or tunnel that got all the oxygen sucked out of it by one of those fuel-air type bombs. Would suffocation lead to the discoloration?
Posted by: Glenmore   2006-07-21 23:28  

#9  Yeah, just like the NK accusations against the UN forces in the Korean War. Desperation is the soul of deceit. However, it is true that suicide killers would pack caustic and inflammatory materials with their charge.
Posted by: Anginens Threreng8133   2006-07-21 21:55  

#8  If the guy is right...doesn't that indicate the presence of WMD issues?

For a nation like the US, Israel, Russia, China, et cetera, an allegation of chem weapons would be--and is--on its face preposterous. But that doesn't mean their use is tatally unlikely, given the rogue nation status of pre-war Iraq, Syria and Iran.

Usually in someone's words are truth. Maybe not the truth they want to expose, but truth nontheless.
Posted by: OregonGuy   2006-07-21 14:39  

#7  Take your medicine Hizbullebanese, you did not fight for your country. Maybe some of Saddam's cocktails came from Syria and made it into what was once Lebanon..
Posted by: SamAdamsky   2006-07-21 14:04  

#6  Work-related accident at a Hezb weapons hidey-house? Hezb must of forgotten to put the biohazard signs on the missile in the family room.
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412   2006-07-21 09:23  

#5  WMD secondaries anyone?
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-07-21 07:03  

#4  I think this is probably misdiagnosis of a case of contageous hemorroids by our Belgian-Lebanese good doctor.
I love the fantasies spewed out by the overactive eastern imagination.
Posted by: Elder of Zion   2006-07-21 06:21  

#3  When my dad wanted me to question a claim in the media, he'd speak in a JFK Massachusetts accent and say, "Bobby! Check his war record!"

I see a claim like this and automatically think, "Check his WAH Recard!"

Posted by: JDB   2006-07-21 03:22  

#2  And then there was the death ray we used in Baghdad...
Posted by: Fred   2006-07-21 00:58  

#1  They made the same claims about Fallujah. Wonder if it's the same doctor?
Posted by: Fred   2006-07-21 00:54  

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