What weapon caused these injuries?

[outsider]

Apart from listing Bliar's War Crimes, this article shows some horrific injuries on an Iraqi boy. Any ideas on the cause? It looks like the kind of injuries caused when an unconventional tank was reported as having blasted civilians, who were incinerated by some form of beam, which has previously appeared on one of our Forum threads:

http://www.redress.cc/global/dhalpin20080517

[paul wright]

Yes. It looks like he's been microwaved or similar over a confined area by a directed beam. Obviously the arms are absolutely frazzled, but there's no information on the state of the internal organs underneath the abdominal skin burn, so it's hard to judge

[TonyGosling]

That's horrible, far too horrid to show on TV (unless, of course, it was of an Israeli victim) Could it be a flamethrower??

"The charge list includes...".
Indeed it does.

[paul wright]

He's been cooked. By whatever means

[sycorax82]

But just look at how unaffected much of the rest of his skin is. Flamethrowers aren't exactly beam accurate. What the hell would they be doing with a flamethrower anyway?

[ianrcrane]

The young boy in this photograph is an orphan (thanks to whatever caused these injuries). who has been treated abysmally by the British Government.

David Halpin addressed Ali's case in some detail during his presentation at The Alternative View event.

Although Ali is an Iraqi child, David was illustrating the fact that illegal weaponry is being used by the US/UK/Israeli coalition of judeo/christian extremists, determined to create a state of permanent trauma amongst muslim nations and communities.

David's presentation, 'The Palestinian Holocaust' was deeply moving and a reminder of the fact that as British Tax payers, we are 'complicit' in the events which have caused such death and destruction.

David Halpin, a retired Trauma surgeon, founded the Dove & Dolphin Charity to provide support medical and educational aid to Palestinian children. David is currently on his ninth trip to Palestine.

This remarkable man was also one of the original signatories to the LETTER stating that Dr. David Kelly could not have committed suicide by the method described in the autopsy report.

Needless to say, I have the utmost respect for David Halpin.

Ian R. Crane

[redadare]

Of course we all know the Americans used phosphorous weapons in Fallujah and there was a complete clamp down on news coming out. This boy was '30 miles' from Bagdad and Fallujah is 40. Phosphorous weapons cause horrific burns. Could this be the first real photographic evidence of the use of weapons banned by international treaty?

You should watch the RAI (Italian TV) video on this. If ever there was a smoking gun of war crimes after the invasion of Iraq, this is it. It also dispels the myth of embedded journalists being able to report the facts.

[Stefan]

There are LOTS of pictures of white phosphorous victims out there if you look for them, and seriously horiffic they are. But this doesn't look like one - it's way too focussed on one area. You can see he tried to protect the area with his arms - it's clearly directed as his back and the rest of his body is untouched.

Flame thrower? An incredibly powerful one perhaps, but on the whole it looks too neat. Also he we would have to have been topless, otherwise he'd be showing burns on other areas of his torso from where his clohes burned.

I would hazard a guess this was some kind of directed energy weapon.

[xmasdale]

Sadly Britain using phosphorous bombs is not new. It happened in WW2.

I arrived early at the London Documentary Film Festival for the screening of Dean Puckett's The Elephant in the Room, a movie about the 9/11 Truth Movement (which won the award for best British documentary) and I caught most of the previous movie to be shown, which was about the fire bombing of Darmstadt by the RAF on 11th Sept 1944.

The director was a British man, born to a German mother and English father. I met the family after the screening and chatted to them. The director's mother, as a girl, had survived the Darmstadt fire bombing, though her legs, her husband told me, were very badly burnt by phosphorous and permanently disfigured. For that reason she always wears trousers, never a skirt.

The movie revolved around the director taking his mother back to Darmstadt and interviewing her, and an uncle who still lives there, about the fire bombing. She has lived in London most of her adult life and was not at all bitter about what had happened to her. She was very much of the "forgive and forget" school of thought, though her son was keen that such things should not be forgotten and had made this movie for his children and future generations.

The point which the mother made, most forcibly, was her abhorrance at the way Bomber Harris has in Britain been made into something of a national hero. It was he (no doubt supported by Churchill and Rooseveldt) who was responsible for the policy of fire bombing German towns towards the end of WW2, culminating in the infamous fire bombing of Dresden just when Germany was about to surrender. The towns at the time were mostly empty of combatants and military targets. They were the places where women and children were living while their menfolk were conscripted into to the forces to fight Hitler's war. Fire bombing, as opposed to high explosives, guaranteed the maximisation of civilian casualties and phosphorous was apparantly one of the weapons used.

When men fight they so often lose all sense of common humanity and wickedness prevails.

[outsider]

More horrific evidence of Coaliition War Criminals' handiwork; here is an online petition:

Here is a petition, aimed principally at getting aid for children deformed by Depleted Uranium:

http://www.petitiononline.com/hdcif/

[Mark Gobell]

Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima'

The shocking rates of infant mortality and cancer in Iraqi city raise new questions about battle

By Patrick Cockburn

Saturday, 24 July 2010

The Independent

Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, according to a new study.

Iraqi doctors in Fallujah have complained since 2005 of being overwhelmed by the number of babies with serious birth defects, ranging from a girl born with two heads to paralysis of the lower limbs. They said they were also seeing far more cancers than they did before the battle for Fallujah between US troops and insurgents.

Their claims have been supported by a survey showing a four-fold increase in all cancers and a 12-fold increase in childhood cancer in under-14s. Infant mortality in the city is more than four times higher than in neighbouring Jordan and eight times higher than in Kuwait.
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Dr Chris Busby, a visiting professor at the University of Ulster and one of the authors of the survey of 4,800 individuals in Fallujah, said it is difficult to pin down the exact cause of the cancers and birth defects. He added that "to produce an effect like this, some very major mutagenic exposure must have occurred in 2004 when the attacks happened".

US Marines first besieged and bombarded Fallujah, 30 miles west of Baghdad, in April 2004 after four employees of the American security company Blackwater were killed and their bodies burned. After an eight-month stand-off, the Marines stormed the city in November using artillery and aerial bombing against rebel positions. US forces later admitted that they had employed white phosphorus as well as other munitions.

In the assault US commanders largely treated Fallujah as a free-fire zone to try to reduce casualties among their own troops. British officers were appalled by the lack of concern for civilian casualties. "During preparatory operations in the November 2004 Fallujah clearance operation, on one night over 40 155mm artillery rounds were fired into a small sector of the city," recalled Brigadier Nigel Aylwin-Foster, a British commander serving with the American forces in Baghdad.

He added that the US commander who ordered this devastating use of firepower did not consider it significant enough to mention it in his daily report to the US general in command. Dr Busby says that while he cannot identify the type of armaments used by the Marines, the extent of genetic damage suffered by inhabitants suggests the use of uranium in some form. He said: "My guess is that they used a new weapon against buildings to break through walls and kill those inside."

The survey was carried out by a team of 11 researchers in January and February this year who visited 711 houses in Fallujah. A questionnaire was filled in by householders giving details of cancers, birth outcomes and infant mortality. Hitherto the Iraqi government has been loath to respond to complaints from civilians about damage to their health during military operations.

Researchers were initially regarded with some suspicion by locals, particularly after a Baghdad television station broadcast a report saying a survey was being carried out by terrorists and anybody conducting it or answering questions would be arrested. Those organising the survey subsequently arranged to be accompanied by a person of standing in the community to allay suspicions.

The study, entitled "Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005-2009", is by Dr Busby, Malak Hamdan and Entesar Ariabi, and concludes that anecdotal evidence of a sharp rise in cancer and congenital birth defects is correct. Infant mortality was found to be 80 per 1,000 births compared to 19 in Egypt, 17 in Jordan and 9.7 in Kuwait. The report says that the types of cancer are "similar to that in the Hiroshima survivors who were exposed to ionising radiation from the bomb and uranium in the fallout".

Researchers found a 38-fold increase in leukaemia, a ten-fold increase in female breast cancer and significant increases in lymphoma and brain tumours in adults. At Hiroshima survivors showed a 17-fold increase in leukaemia, but in Fallujah Dr Busby says what is striking is not only the greater prevalence of cancer but the speed with which it was affecting people.

Of particular significance was the finding that the sex ratio between newborn boys and girls had changed. In a normal population this is 1,050 boys born to 1,000 girls, but for those born from 2005 there was an 18 per cent drop in male births, so the ratio was 850 males to 1,000 females. The sex-ratio is an indicator of genetic damage that affects boys more than girls. A similar change in the sex-ratio was discovered after Hiroshima.

The US cut back on its use of firepower in Iraq from 2007 because of the anger it provoked among civilians. But at the same time there has been a decline in healthcare and sanitary conditions in Iraq since 2003. The impact of war on civilians was more severe in Fallujah than anywhere else in Iraq because the city continued to be blockaded and cut off from the rest of the country long after 2004. War damage was only slowly repaired and people from the city were frightened to go to hospitals in Baghdad because of military checkpoints on the road into the capital.

The report: Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009

Report Extract:

4. Conclusions

This study was intended to investigate the accuracy of the various reports which have been emerging from Fallujah regarding perceived increases in birth defects, infant deaths and cancer in the population and to examine samples from the area for the presence of mutagenic substances that may explain any results. We conclude that the results confirm the reported increases in cancer and infant mortality which are alarmingly high. The remarkable reduction in the sex ratio in the cohort born one year after the fighting in 2004 identifies that year as the time of the environmental contamination. In our opinion, the magnitude of these effects make it difficult to question them on the basis of any of the hypothetical shortcomings of the study type which we have considered although these must be borne in mind. However, owing to the various constraints placed by circumstance on the methods employed, we must emphasise that the results of this study should be interpreted with those aspects in mind. Finally, the results reported here do not throw any light upon the identity of the agent(s) causing the increased levels of illness and although we have drawn attention to the use of depleted uranium as one potential relevant exposure, there may be other possibilities and we see the current study as investigating the anecdotal evidence of increases in cancer and infant mortality in Fallujah.

[TonyGosling]

Fallujah children's 'genetic damage'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10721562
Cancer, leukaemia and infant mortality are all increasing in the Iraqi town of Fallujah, which saw fierce fighting between US forces and Sunni insurgents, a new survey says.
Still one of the most dangerous places in Iraq, doctors have been reporting a large number of birth defects since the 2004 offensive.
John Simpson reports.

[Thermate911]

Fortunately, there is now something positive to be done to at least ameliorate some of the horrific misery the surviving victims of Fallujah are experiencing:-

http://www.thecbdf.org/en/the-please-help-fallujah-campaign

[outsider]

A half hour video, showing some of the weapons deployed against the Palestinians:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb_QylA45OE


Link

[fish5133]

What weapon caused these injuries?

Its becoming clear that the weapon is called "Racism"