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2009-01-22 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel denies using uranium-infused bombs during Gaza op

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Posted by Fred 2009-01-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
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#1 I'd give about 40% odds that the Israelis used DU in their bunker-busters. It does seem like the most efficient way to get deep-penetrators into the lower warrens of cave-bunkers. If I were the US military or the Israelis, I'd probably have been looking into heavy-metal alternatives to DU just to get past this idiocy, but heavy metals are generally poisonous, radioactive, or otherwise noxious on general principles, and rarer & more expensive on average than DU to boot...

You know, lead isn't that much lighter than DU. Probably be easier to just bite the bullet & use a longer penetrating rod.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-01-22 09:07|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-01-22 09:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Mitch, you have an understandable misperception about DU.
Lead and DU are nowhere near each other on the periodic table.
This link will help
http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Samples/092.1/index.s12.html

Posted by logi_cal 2009-01-22 09:52|| 2009-01-22 09:52|| Front Page Top

#3 so what if they did, boo hoo for the Egyptian Brotherhood and their Buddys the Iranians. Are there bigger COWARDS, I dont think so.

Posted by Manly Man 2009-01-22 11:30|| 2009-01-22 11:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Suppose, for the sake of argument only, that Israel did use DU bombs. So what? Hamass already tried using HIV-contaminated suicide bombs, so this is only getting back what they gave before.

Worst case: It's a wash, and Hamass looks like they can't take what they dish out.

Best case: Israel didn't use DU bombs after all, and Hamass gets away with it.

Posted by gorb 2009-01-22 16:00|| 2009-01-22 16:00|| Front Page Top

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