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New and unkown deadly weapons used by Israeli forces
'direct energy' weapons, chemical and/or biological agents, in a macabre experiment of future warfare
By Professor Paola Manduca
August 7, 2006
By now there are countless reports, from hospitals, witnesses, armament experts and journalists that strongly suggest that in the present offensive of Israeli forces against Lebanon and Gaza 'new weapons' are being used.
New and strange symptoms are reported amongst the wounded and the dead.
Bodies with dead tissues and no apparent wounds; 'shrunken' corpses; civilians with heavy damage to lower limbs that require amputation, which is nevertheless followed by unstoppable necrosis and death; descriptions of extensive internal wounds with no trace of shrapnel, corpses blackened but not burnt, and others heavily wounded that did not bleed.
Many of these descriptions suggest the possibility that the new weapons used include 'direct energy' weapons, and chemical and/or biological agents, in a sort of macabre experiment of future warfare, where there is no respect for anything: International rules (from the Geneva Convention to the treaties on biological and chemical weapons), refugees, hospitals and the Red Cross, not to mention the people, their future, their children, the environment, which is poisoned through dissemination of Depleted Uranium and toxic substances released after oil and chemical depots are bombed.
Right now, the Lebanese and Palestinian people have many urgent and impellent problems, yet many people believe that these episodes cannot and must not pass ignored. In fact several appeals have been launched to scientists and experts with a view to investigating the issue.
With the intent of responding to such appeals, we have set up a team to investigate the testimonies, the images, and possibly the material evidence that delegations and NGOs will be able to bring from the affected areas. We want to offer support to the health institutions of Lebanon and Palestine, which ask constantly for help and external verification and monitoring, and we are examining all available materials in order to formulate hypotheses which can be verified or disproved.
We ask for the active participation of our (Italian) scientific institutions, and, following the request from medical personnel in the conflict area, we are requesting that the UN set up an international independent verification and investigation committee, with a view to facilitating entry into the conflict zone, as well as collecting material and testimonies directly in the field, and undertaking inquries and verifications concerning the various claims regarding these new kinds of weapons of mass destruction being used by Israeli forces in Lebanon. We request that such investigating teams be set up immediately, and that procedures be defined and implemented with a view to supporting future investigations. Of particular concern is the issue of how to collect and store samples from the different theatres, with a view to preserving important information regarding the various impacts of these weapons.
We ask that the international committee have access to all sources of information, that it be fully operational, while abiding by relevant investigative procedures, including cross-checking of information between different laboratories. The international committee is to report to the competent authorities, including the Human Rights tribunals and international courts, if appropriate..
As people and as scientists, we are offering our time and expertise in order to reach an understanding of the underlying facts, in the belief that a perspective of justice, equity and peace among people can be reached only with the respect of the rules defined up to now within the international community of nations. The issue pertains to the behavior of the parties in an armed conflict.
We ask that the respect of these rules be verified in the context of the present conflict.
We invite scientists to contribute to this effort by offering their specific competences. In particular we seek collaboration of toxicology experts, pharmacologists, anatomy pathologists, doctors with an expertise in trauma and burns, chemists.
They can reach the working group at the E-mail address: nuovearmi@gmail.com Paola Manduca, Professor of.Genetics, University of Genova, Italy
Betty
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php
New and unkown deadly weapons used by Israeli forces
'direct energy' weapons, chemical and/or biological agents, in a macabre experiment of future warfare
By Professor Paola Manduca
August 7, 2006
By now there are countless reports, from hospitals, witnesses, armament experts and journalists that strongly suggest that in the present offensive of Israeli forces against Lebanon and Gaza 'new weapons' are being used.
New and strange symptoms are reported amongst the wounded and the dead.
Bodies with dead tissues and no apparent wounds; 'shrunken' corpses; civilians with heavy damage to lower limbs that require amputation, which is nevertheless followed by unstoppable necrosis and death; descriptions of extensive internal wounds with no trace of shrapnel, corpses blackened but not burnt, and others heavily wounded that did not bleed.
Many of these descriptions suggest the possibility that the new weapons used include 'direct energy' weapons, and chemical and/or biological agents, in a sort of macabre experiment of future warfare, where there is no respect for anything: International rules (from the Geneva Convention to the treaties on biological and chemical weapons), refugees, hospitals and the Red Cross, not to mention the people, their future, their children, the environment, which is poisoned through dissemination of Depleted Uranium and toxic substances released after oil and chemical depots are bombed.
Right now, the Lebanese and Palestinian people have many urgent and impellent problems, yet many people believe that these episodes cannot and must not pass ignored. In fact several appeals have been launched to scientists and experts with a view to investigating the issue.
With the intent of responding to such appeals, we have set up a team to investigate the testimonies, the images, and possibly the material evidence that delegations and NGOs will be able to bring from the affected areas. We want to offer support to the health institutions of Lebanon and Palestine, which ask constantly for help and external verification and monitoring, and we are examining all available materials in order to formulate hypotheses which can be verified or disproved.
We ask for the active participation of our (Italian) scientific institutions, and, following the request from medical personnel in the conflict area, we are requesting that the UN set up an international independent verification and investigation committee, with a view to facilitating entry into the conflict zone, as well as collecting material and testimonies directly in the field, and undertaking inquries and verifications concerning the various claims regarding these new kinds of weapons of mass destruction being used by Israeli forces in Lebanon. We request that such investigating teams be set up immediately, and that procedures be defined and implemented with a view to supporting future investigations. Of particular concern is the issue of how to collect and store samples from the different theatres, with a view to preserving important information regarding the various impacts of these weapons.
We ask that the international committee have access to all sources of information, that it be fully operational, while abiding by relevant investigative procedures, including cross-checking of information between different laboratories. The international committee is to report to the competent authorities, including the Human Rights tribunals and international courts, if appropriate..
As people and as scientists, we are offering our time and expertise in order to reach an understanding of the underlying facts, in the belief that a perspective of justice, equity and peace among people can be reached only with the respect of the rules defined up to now within the international community of nations. The issue pertains to the behavior of the parties in an armed conflict.
We ask that the respect of these rules be verified in the context of the present conflict.
We invite scientists to contribute to this effort by offering their specific competences. In particular we seek collaboration of toxicology experts, pharmacologists, anatomy pathologists, doctors with an expertise in trauma and burns, chemists.
They can reach the working group at the E-mail address: nuovearmi@gmail.com Paola Manduca, Professor of.Genetics, University of Genova, Italy
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Re: Middle Eastern DEW weapons
Mon, August 14, 2006 - 4:32 PMHouse authorizers recommend $10 million
MULTI-NATIONAL CORPS-IRAQ REQUESTS 14 ‘PROJECT SHERIFF’
VEHICLES
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Date: May 30, 2005
The chief of staff for Multi-National Corps-Iraq has requested funding for 14 “Project Sheriff” vehicles to provide warfighters with a package of lethal and nonlethal capabilities. In an April 7 memo obtained by Inside the Army, Brig. Gen. James Huggins asks the Joint Chiefs of Staff to approve funding for the “time critical” materiel release, fielding and sustainment of the “Full- Spectrum Effects Weapon Systems,” the technical name for Project Sheriff vehicles. Huggins proposes the Army receive eight vehicles -- four for the18th Military Police Brigade and four for the 42nd Military Police Brigade -- and six vehicles for the Marines. “This will allow operating forces to exploit the psychological dilemma of adversaries who are faced with advanced precision capabilities having multiple effects mechanism that are collectively more challenging to protect against,” Huggins wrote. “This will serve to transfer the difficulties of operational complexity to the enemy, helping to allow MNC- I forces to regain the initiative in fourth generation warfare.” In an April 19 response to Huggins, Maj. Gen. John Castellaw, chief of staff for U.S. Central Command, said the request for 14 Project Sheriff vehicles was fully supported by CENTCOM. The Joint Staff did not respond to questions about the status of Huggins request by press time (May 27). The House last week passed a fiscal year 2006 defense authorization bill that includes $10 million for Project Sheriff. In a report accompanying the bill, the House Armed Services Committee said the Pentagon’s FY-06 request contained $19.9 million for force transformation but did not request money for Project Sheriff.
“The committee believes Project Sheriff will significantly expand a tactical commander’s options and should be rapidly developed for fielding,” the committee said. Project Sheriff, developed by the Pentagon’s Office of Force Transformation, is an effort to equip warfighters in urban battlefields with a variety of capabilities. In places like Iraq and Afghanistan, the need to preserve buildings and prevent collateral damage, as well as a requirement to be prepared for the use of non-combatants as shields, has increased the need for nonlethal and precision munitions. Nonlethal capabilities incorporated into the Project Sheriff package include multispectral sensors, a high-power white light, acoustics and active denial technology. The ADS technology to be used evolved from an Energy Department program that places ADS on a tripod to secure energy facilities. The Project Sheriff system is designed to function as a counterpersonnel weapon system.
Similar technology is being developed as part of the Defense Department’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate’s Active Denial System. ADS works through a transmitter that produces an energy frequency of 95 GHz and an antenna to direct an invisible beam at a human target. Once the energy reaches the subject, the light beam penetrates the skin by less than 1/64th of an inch. Within seconds, the target experiences an intolerable heating sensation (Inside the Army, Sept. 20, 2004, p1). Though ADS and the technology in Project Sheriff are similar in functionality there are notable differences, Col. Wade Hall, an OFT transformation strategist, told ITA last year (ITA, Sept. 27, 2004, p1). Project Sheriff’s active denial technology will weigh significantly less then ADS, and it will also have fewer components, reduced signature size and a shorter range. Complementing Project Sheriff’s nonlethal capabilities will be a rapid-fire gun and an active protection system. The active protection system will incorporate acoustic and infrared sensors to locate signatures. The system reacts to a potential threat by destroying it before it hits a vehicle. -- Ashley Roque
ARMY-17-21-8
© 2005 Inside Washington Publishers
