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Belgian doctor: Israel using chemical weapons (in Lebanon)
Expatica ^ | July 21, 2006

Posted on 07/21/2006 1:29:32 PM PDT by NYer

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 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".

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2006israelwar; catholic; chemicalweapons; christian; hezboullah; iran; islam; israel; jew; lebanon; muslim; religionofpeace; rop; syria; trop
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July 17, 2006. These two pictures are from Rmeileh. In this town, twelve people were killed when their minibus was hit as they were trying to escape.

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1 posted on 07/21/2006 1:29:36 PM PDT by NYer
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To: Patrick_k; maronite

ping!


2 posted on 07/21/2006 1:30:08 PM PDT by NYer
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To: NYer

Perhaps the good doctor should go to Lebanon for a closer look.


3 posted on 07/21/2006 1:31:13 PM PDT by Patrick1
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The Left's next stage: accuse Israel of committing war crimes.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em, Down Hezbullies.)

4 posted on 07/21/2006 1:31:53 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: NYer

Is this the doctor making the charge?

5 posted on 07/21/2006 1:32:25 PM PDT by lormand (Kill terrorists on the battlefield)
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6 posted on 07/21/2006 1:32:47 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Pray for peace, prepare for war.)
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To: NYer

I know of no chemical agent that will blacken the skin like that but blast overpressure will. The doctor is FOS.


7 posted on 07/21/2006 1:33:16 PM PDT by CholeraJoe (All Marines can throw a grenade. The really, really good ones can throw a slider with one.)
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To: NYer

There is no freaking way that chemical weapons are being used by Israel.


8 posted on 07/21/2006 1:33:17 PM PDT by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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All he has to do is make the accusation so that it hits the headlines. Even if proven false, the lie is out there and circulating. The damage is done.


9 posted on 07/21/2006 1:33:27 PM PDT by Clara Lou (A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. --I. Kristol)
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To: NYer
Very unlikely that these where chemical weapons IMHO.
While I don't claim to know about all chemicals out now, we never were trained on anything that would do this.
Usually they are Nerve agents, blister agents, or just irritants like CS.
10 posted on 07/21/2006 1:34:34 PM PDT by GrandEagle
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Chemical weapons? That's a great idea!!!


11 posted on 07/21/2006 1:34:42 PM PDT by gura
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The Belgian professor of Lebanese origin, Bachir Cham, is the head of a hospital in Lebanon.
12 posted on 07/21/2006 1:35:12 PM PDT by Red Badger (Is Castro dead yet?........)
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Those bodies look decomposed. The blood is congeled, and the skin is burnt. They look like they died in a hot summers day and sat out a while.


13 posted on 07/21/2006 1:35:38 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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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.

That's Libel.

14 posted on 07/21/2006 1:35:40 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Make them go home!!)
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To: NYer

The Belgian doctor's belchin' bullsh't.


15 posted on 07/21/2006 1:35:58 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: CholeraJoe

Maybe some of Saddam's WMDs are gettin unstable.........


16 posted on 07/21/2006 1:36:39 PM PDT by Red Badger (Is Castro dead yet?........)
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To: Clara Lou
All he has to do is make the accusation so that it hits the headlines. Even if proven false, the lie is out there and circulating. The damage is done.

I think that's the idea-I'm sure it's already on Al Jazeera, and Manar tv.

17 posted on 07/21/2006 1:37:05 PM PDT by sockmonkey
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They are definitely using a new weapon of sorts, as this has been reported before. It's like the bodies are vaporized. I don't think these are chemical weapons, but explosives that concentrate their energies in a unique fashion with little collateral damage.


18 posted on 07/21/2006 1:37:52 PM PDT by nikos1121 (Thank you again Jimmy Carter.)
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To: Clara Lou

I agree...they are just setting the stage for when they use some of Syria's chemical weapons on Israel.


19 posted on 07/21/2006 1:37:57 PM PDT by willyd
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I would not put it past Nasrallah to break out a few shells from his private Iraqi stock hidden away in the Bakaa valley for use against a few of his own lackeys. The propoganda value would be worth the sacrifice of a few of his own.


20 posted on 07/21/2006 1:38:20 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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