Belgian doctor: Israel using chemical weapons (in Lebanon)

Expatica ^ | July 21, 2006

[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".

[Unicorn]

Wonder where this guy escaped from?

[Zeroisanumber]

There were never any Israeli "settlers" in Lebanon, dumbass.

Read the original post. We were discussing the Gaza strip, not Lebanon.

[do the dhue]

I hear he could get a good vantage point from Southern Lebanon.

[gentlestrength]

The doc could be just a great insider, and it's purposed Israeli propaganda!

[It's me]

I certianly hope that this is not true-- for Isreal's sake.

[do the dhue]

BRILLIANT!!

[PsyOp]

If Lebanese die of chemical weapons, it's because Isreali bombs or artillery blew up Hezbolah caches of these weapons.

At least on of the pictures on the link provided was certainly not the result of a chemical weapon, but of a fire. I know of no chemical weapon that produces those results. Not even blister agents. Those bodies looked charred.

[Alouette]

We were discussing the Gaza strip, not Lebanon.

The Jewish Gaza residents had hydroponic greenhouses, which were left intact for the Palestinians to build an economy.

Tell me again who "salted the earth."

[Zeroisanumber]

I'd like an apology for your misunderstanding before we continue any further.

[af_vet_rr]

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.

Reminds me of a story Hunter Thompson told about Lyndon Johnson in 1948 :

Back in 1948, during his first race for the US Senate, Lyndon Johnson was running about 10 points behind, with only nine days to go. He was desperate. And it was just before noon on a Monday, they say, when he called his equally depressed campaign manager and told him to call a press conference for just before lunch on a slow news day and accuse his high-riding opponent, a pig farmer, of having routine carnal knowledge of his sows, despite the pleas of his wife and children.

His campaign manager was shocked. "We can't say that, Lyndon," he supposedly said. "You know that it isn't true."

"Of course it's not!" Johnson barked. "But let's make the bastard deny it!"

[Political Junkie Too]

Is it possible that Israeli conventional weapons hit Hezbollah chemical weapon storage sites (maybe from the missing Iraqi WMD?), and Hezbollah chemical weapons were dispersed in the explosion, killing those nearby?

Just a theory...

-PJ

[conservative blonde]

And it makes a ready excuse for Hezbollah to use WMD in the next couple of weeks.

[Loud Mime]

..........or were treated with chemicals afterwards

[jblair]

Man, I hate to say it, but that made me chuckle.

[TXRed]

And who's to say that Hezbollah didn't just use chemicals on the victims so they can say that the Israelis did it? I wouldn't put it past them, that's for sure!

[Political Junkie Too]

Sure, and who's to say that there weren't any chemical weapons and this is just a drive-by media shoot?

-PJ

[brazzaville]

Good afternoon.

They look like they were killed by overpressure and heat from high explosive and left to cure in the sun.

Besides, I'm not about to believe a Belgian Lebanese anyway.

Apologies to my Belgian friends.

Michael Frazier

[brazzaville]

Good afternoon.
"...Iran, Syria and Hezbollah are getting ready to use chemical weapons on Israel.."

If they do the game is on for sure.

What's the name of that hill? Megiddo?

Michael Frazier

[TXRed]

Exactly! Anything to be used again Israel.

[TXRed]

Make that AGAINST Israel.