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INDEX ON ILLEGAL WEAPONS IN LEBANON
By Sarah Meyer
BRussells Tribunal
http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/
[go to website to view photos and links removed for this
posting]
9/11 or 07/06?
“How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be
described as mass murderer and a war criminal?" Harold Pinter,
Nobel speech.
Following is an Index of various reports and articles.
US/UK Arms for Israel
14.07.06. B. Russell, Independent. Britain urged to ban £23m
arms trade with Israel.
29.07.06. IRNA. British arms exports to Israel doubled last
year.
29.07.06. B. Joffe-Wait, Guardian. Made in the UK, bringing
devastation to Lebanon - the British parts in Israel's deadly
attack helicopters.
...
21.10.04. Reuters / Common Dreams. The United States plans to sell
Israel $319 million worth of air-launched bombs, including 500
"bunker busters" able to penetrate Iran's underground nuclear
facilities, Israeli security sources said on Tuesday. Eyeing Iran
Reactors, Israel Seeks U.S. Bunker Bombs.
26.07.06. Berrigan / Hartung, Foreign Policy in Focus. Over the
past decade, the United States has transferred more than $17
billion in military aid to this country of just under 7 million
people. Who's Arming Israel?
27.07.06. G. Mitchell, Editor and Publisher. Press Overlooks U.S.
Role as Arms Merchant in Mideast Conflict.
29.07.06. Reuters. The announcement came two weeks after the
administration said it would sell Israel its latest supply of JP-8
aviation fuel valued at up to $210m to help Israeli warplanes
“keep peace and security in the region.” US planning
$4.6bn in Mideast arms sales.
US Arms to Israel
21.07.06. Reuters. "The Bush administration is rushing a delivery
of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited
shipment last week after beginning its air campaign. … The
decision to quickly ship the weapons to Israel was made with
relatively little debate within the Bush administration, the
officials said." US rushes precision-guided bombs to Israel.
25.07.06. Marjorie Cohen, Counterpunch. Bush Greenlights War
Crimes. … Israel had just put out an S.O.S. to the United
States government to rush over several more bombs Willful
Blindness.
In October 1992, an El Al cargo Boeing 747 crashed into this
apartment building in Amsterdam Bijlmermeer [edit correction]. Some
one thousand people in the vicinity complained of health problems
after the crash. It was later revealed by Dutch and Israeli sources
that El Al Flight 1862 was transporting precursor chemical weapons
substances to Israel from the United States, including dimethyl
methylphosphonate, hydrofluoric acid, and isopropanol, in addition
to depleted uranium. http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
26.07.06. Channel 4 news. Tonight a surprise diplomatic rift has
blown up between the United States and Britain over the shipment of
bunker busting bombs to Israel through a British airport. Margaret
Beckett interview (video). Foreign Office ‘edited’
(sic) version of interview.
27.07.06. P. Graff, Washington Post. A newspaper said Britain had
agreed to allow Washington to fly more weapons to Israel via its
airports despite Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett saying she was
"not happy" about Washington failing to comply with procedures for
such flights. US denies breaking UK rules on Israel bomb
flights.
28.07.06. P. Webster, Timesonline. The Government will allow more
American aircraft carrying arms to Israel to stop over in Britain
despite private concerns that the Pentagon was “playing fast
and loose”. Britain lets more flights land in Scotland.
29.07.06. BBC. Two more American flights carrying "hazardous
cargoes" bound for Israel are to refuel at Prestwick Airport this
weekend, it has emerged. Airport to handle more US flights.
30.07.06. Crichton / Hutcheon, Sunday Herald. Revealed: Ireland
refused to allow bomb flights to land.
30.07.06. EDP24. Planned protests mean that Hazardous cargo flights
'diverted to Mildenhall.'
Cluster Bombs, DU Bunker Busters and Phosphorus Bombs
REPORTS
07.06. Amnesty International. Obligations under international
humanitarian law of the parties to the conflict in Israel and
Lebanon ISRAEL/LEBANON: ISRAEL AND HIZBULLAH MUST SPARE
CIVILIANS.
21.07.06. Relief Web. According to several witness accounts,
cluster bombs may have been used by the Israeli forces over the
last few days in south Lebanon, particularly in the southern
suburbs of Beirut.The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) reports that
the Israeli government has announced that it is reserving the right
to use cluster bombs in its current intervention in Lebanon.
Handicap International is concerned about the possible use of
landmines and cluster bombs in Lebanon.
24.07.06. Red Cross Report, uruknet. ICRC - Bulletin No. 3 –
Lebanon.
Close-up of a M483A1 DPICM artillery-delivered cluster munition
present in the arsenal of an IDF unit in northern Israel. ©
Human Rights Watch 2006
Pallets of 155mm artillery projectiles including DPICM cluster
munitions (center and right with yellow diamonds), 23.07.06, N.
Israel. © Human Rights Watch 2006
24.07.06. Human Rights Watch. Israel Must Not Use Indiscriminate
Weapons. Israeli Cluster Munitions Hit Civilians in Lebanon.
ARTICLES
11.07.06. Human Rights, Electronic intifada. Palestinian injuries
suggest Israel is using chemical weapons in Gaza.
20.07.06. Kurt Nimmo, uruknet. Excellent short precis of illicit
weapons. “Israel has plenty of other weapons, gratis the
United States and its own burgeoning weapons program, but it
appears it prefers to augment its arsenal with chemical
weapons.” Israelis adopt poison gas ‘fashion.’
See Nimmo’s referenced url: Overview: Israel’s use of
Chemical Weapons.
21.07.06. As-Safir Newspaper, uruknet. Do you know what kind of
weapons causes this damage? CAN YOU HELP US, PLEASE! 3
22/23.07.06. W. Madsen Report / GlobalResearch.ca. “U.S.
military intelligence sources have told WMR that the artillery
shell shown below being used by an Israel Defense Force member in
Lebanon, is a type of dual and multi-use weapon the neocons falsely
accused Saddam Hussein of possessing. Although the canister
artillery shell is marketed as an anti-land mine fuel-air bomb, its
payload can also include the chemicals used in thermobaric bombs,
white phosphorous weapons, and chemical weapons.” Photos.
Chemical Weapons used against Lebanese Civilians.
Badly burnt body of young Lebanese girl with telltale signs of
white phosphorous attack.
WAR CRIME
22.07.06. M. Chussodovsky, GlobalResearch.ca. Israeli crimes
against humanity: Gruesome images of charred and mutilated bodies
following Israeli air strikes.
23.07.06. BRussels Tribunal. States are obliged to protect Lebanon,
militarily if necessary, lest international law become a travesty
Israel’s wanton bombing of Lebanese civilians is an
unequivocal war crime.
23.07.06. G. Myre, NYTimes. (Editor, Index: a source, who wishes to
remain anonymous, says: “enlarge the picture of the Israeli
artillery (scroll down). The pale green rounds in the foreground
are WP, if US artillery markings are still what they used to be.
The green rounds with yellow diamonds are beehive (flechette)
rounds.”) Israel Presses Air Raids on Lebanon, and Its Ground
Forces Move Into a Village.
23.07.06. G. Hoffman, Jerusalem Post. Knesset member Azmi Bishara
(Balad) has accused Israel of such massive use of force in the
conflict with Hizbullah that "it's like a nuclear bomb falling on
Lebanon - the whole country is destroyed." MK Bishara: IDF attacks
'like a nuclear bomb on Lebanon.'
30,000 demonstrate in London 26.07.06.
23.07.06. S. Meyer, Index Research. UK demonstration. Meanwhile,
the US sends more bombs to Israel. These bombs appear to wreak the
same human horrors as the phosphorus bombs used in Fallujah, Iraq.
Lebanon vs. the BBC.
23.07.06. Redress Information & Analysis, uruknet. Israel bans
reporting of use of "unique" weapons in Lebanon.
24.07.06. Dr. D. Rokke, uruknet. “The delivery of at least
100 GBU 28 bunker busters bombs containing depleted uranium
warheads by the United States to Israel for use against targets in
Lebanon will result in additional radioactive and chemical toxic
contamination with consequent adverse health and environmental
effects throughout the middle east.” Depleted Uranium
Situation Worsens Requiring Immediate Action By President Bush,
Prime Minister Blair, and Prime Minister Olmert.
24.07.06. Zena el-Khalil, dnaindia.com. “So, let me ask this
question: if Israel gets its weapons from the USA then by default
doesn’t that mean that the USA is at war with Lebanon?
Blogging from Beirut.
24.07.06. The Jurist, uruknet. Phosphorus incendiary bombs and
vacuum bombs. Lebanon accuses Israel of using "internationally
prohibited weapons against civilians."
24.07.06. IRIN. Lebanon president says Israel using phosphorus
arms.
24.07.06. Mosaic / ICH. This video contains images depicting the
reality and horror of war and should only be viewed by a mature
audience. Uncensored News Reports From Across The Middle East.
24.07.06. Graphic Video, CNN / Raw Story. Lebanese Doctor Says
'Phosphorus Weapons' Cause Suffering.
24.07.06. Dahr Jamail, WilliamBowlesinfo. Bombings hit children
hardest.
24.07.06. Dahr Jamail. “Aren’t people seeing all of
this?”
25.07.06. ICH. Photographs from Lebanon.
WAR CRIME
25.07.06. K. Gannon, the state.com. TYRE, Lebanon — Dirty
bandages hid the worst of 8-year-old Zainab Jawad’s swollen,
bloodied nose Monday.Jawad Najem, a surgeon at the hospital, said
patients admitted Sunday had burns from phosphorous incendiary
weapons used by Israel. Civilians bear fear, injuries, death,
grief.
25.07.06. Democracy Now: Interview with Peter Bouchaert.
“Just a few days ago we documented an attack, which took
place last Wednesday, on the village of Blida, in which the
Israelis used cluster munitions. Human Rights Watch has been very
critical of the use of cluster and munitions by the U.S. military,
because these are indiscriminate weapons. Basically what they are
is one big shell, which opens up and drops a number of smaller
bomblets over a very large area. Many of these bomblets don’t
explode, so they effectively turn into mines.” Human Rights
Watch: Israel Dropping Cluster Bombs on Lebanese Civilians.
25.07.06. J. Bone, TimesonLine. As civilian casualties mount, the
UN is telling the belligerents that they might be guilty of war
crimes. War crimes warning as civilian deaths increase.
25.07.06. Lenin’s tomb / uruknet. Israel uses cluster bombs,
chemical weapons.
25.07.06. Gabriele Zamparini, catsdream / uruknet. Did You
Know?
25.07.06. Media Lens. Part I: Demolishing Lebanon.
26.07.06. Part II: Demolishing Lebanon.
25.07.06. P.J. Watson, Prison Planet. Burning Babies Are Child's
Play To Israel's Ethnic Cleansers.
Bint Jelail before being destroyed by US bombs 4
26.07.06. R. Takieddin, dar al Hayat. Did the American people see
on CNN the child whose face was burnt by Israeli phosphorous bombs
in Lebanon? Lebanon's Children and Israeli Phosphorous Bombs.
26.07.06. IRIN. The Israeli military has defended itself following
allegations by Lebanese government officials, doctors and an
international human rights organisation that phosphorous bombs have
been used, and have harmed civilians. Lebanon: Israel defends its
weapons.
26.07.06. Pulse. Israel is using phosphorous bombs and cluster
bombs against civilians. Letter from retired U.S. Senator on the
invasion of Lebanon.
26.07.06. Summary by Tom Café – urls and videos.
Update: Israel using chemical weapons & targeting
ambulances.
26.07.06. ICH. Lebanon's 9/11 or Why Do They Hate Us? Picture
Album.
26.07.06. Wayne Madsen Report. Lebanon attack a joint Israeli-U.S.
military operation: Dead UN soldiers had atrocities info.
26.07.06. Aliran. There are even reports that white phosphorus,
banned by the Geneva Convention, and cluster bombs have been used
in areas populated by civilians. These are all war crimes and those
responsible must be prosecuted in an international war crimes
tribunal. Rice Go Home.
27.07.06. J. Matthew, Yahoo. Mysterious wounds from Israeli shells
in Gaza.
27.07.06. Angola Press. African experts focus chemical weapons ban
treaty.
27.07.06. Dahr Jamail, Beirut Journal, Mother Jones. "War is the
total failure of the human spirit."
27.07.06. S. Assir, Weekly Ahram. … “it appears that
in conflicts in the Middle East the law of the "most powerful" is
the one that counts.”Above the law.
27.07.06. AlJazeera. Israel uses cluster bombs in Israel.
27.07.06. Reuters/ Media Channel. Belgian couple to accuse Israel
of war crimes.
28.07.06. Dahr Jamail. “The Israeli military is using illegal
weapons against civilians in southern Lebanon, according to several
reports. Israelis Accused of Using Illegal Weapons.”
28.07.06. Timesonline.
LEBANESE TOLL
Up to 600 killed
1,788 seriously injured
5,000 homes damaged
More than 2,500 aerial attacks by Israel
500,000 people displaced within Lebanon
200,000 have left the country
3 airports bombed,
62 bridges destroyed
ISRAELI TOLL
19 civilians dead
26 seriously injured
374 less badly injured
632 treated for shock
33 Israeli soldiers killed
50 injured
1,514 rockets and missiles fired at Israel
200,000 Israelis have left their homes in North Israel
More innocent blood is shed as Israel steps up offensive.
BBC Lebanon Damage Report (and maps).
STATEMENT OF BAMA (British Arab Medical Association, 27th July
2006.
28.07.06. Dahr Jamail. Death Toll Could be Twice the Original
Figure.
28.07.06. theage.com. LEBANON is investigating reports from doctors
that Israel has used weapons in its bombardment of southern Lebanon
that have caused wounds they have never seen before. Doctors
suspect chemical weapons.
28.07.06. Bahrain Daily News. GAZA CITY: Israel is using a new type
of weapon possibly containing chemicals against Palestinians, it
was alleged yesterday. 'DIRTY' BOMBS HORROR.
28.07.06. UPI. White House wary of war crimes.
29.07.06. J. Stillwater, aljazeera.info. “You’re
safe.”
29.07.06. P.J. Watson, Prison Planet/uruknet. Israelis Rain Down
Deadly DU On Lebanese Civilians.
29.07.06. Mike Head, WSWS / uruknet. Internationally banned
munitions designed to cause massive civilian
casualties—including phosphorous, air-sucking bombs and
cluster bombs—are being used to terrorise the Lebanese
people, force a mass exodus of residents from south Lebanon and
pulverise Hezbollah forces in preparation for a larger ground
invasion. Atrocities mount as Israel intensifies bombardment of
Lebanon.
29.07.06. Robert Fisk, Independent / ICH. The Truth of
Blair’s ‘Urgent Democracy.’
Warning
26.07.06. Wayne Madsen Report. Pretext for war with Iran: White
House plans to move chem-bio weapons from Iraq into Iran.
WAR CRIME
The Geneva Conventions
GENEVA CONVENTION I
(Protection for sick and wounded combatants on land)
Article 19: Fixed establishments and mobile medical units of the
Medical Service may in no circumstances be attacked.
Article 24: Medical personnel exclusively engaged in the search
for, or the collection, transport or treatment of the wounded or
sick, or in the prevention of disease, staff exclusively engaged in
the administration of medical units and establishments, as well as
chaplains attached to the armed forces, shall be respected and
protected in all circumstances.
VERY SHORT REFERENCE LIST
Not the Mainstream Media
Danny Schechter’s Dissector is an invaluable daily source of
synthesized media information and comment on the US (UK)/Israeli
war on Lebanon. Blogging Beirut
http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
http://www.motherjones.com/
http://www.uruknet.info/
http://www.williambowles.info/
Cluster Bombs
FAS Military Analysis Network: Cluster Bombs.
Wikipedia: Cluster Bombs.
White Phosphorus Bombs
Wikipedia: White Phosphorus.
Sarah Meyer, Index Research Bombs in Iraq.
28.07.06. BBC. Agent Orange 'caused gene damage.' (NB: Agent Orange
is the precursor to White Phosphorus)
Bunker Buster Bombs
Wikipedia: Bunker Buster.
Depleted Uranium
Depleted Uranium Alert.
10.05. Physicians for Social Responsibility Report: DU: Health and
Public Health Issues arising from the Use of Depleted Uranium
Munitions.
19.02.06. Sunday Times. UK radiation jump blamed on Iraq
shells.
21.02.06. Free market news network / uruknet “The Preventive
Psychiatry Newsletter has written to its subscribers telling them
that the real reason the former Veterans Affairs Secretary, Anthony
Principi, recently resigned was because he has been involved in a
massive scandal covering up the fact that Gulf War Syndrome was
caused by the use of depleted uranium, according to the SF Bay
View. DU SCANDAL EXPLODES.
26.02.06. Robert Fisk, Independent / ICH. Something more serious is
happening to our planet which we are not being told about Is the
problem weather, or is it war?
28.02.06. S. Lendman, Countercurrents. Deplete Uranium – A
Hidden Looming Worldwide Calamity.
02.03.06. John Byrne, Raw Story. U.S. signs $38 million deal for
depleted uranium tank shells.
William Lewis Film: Depleted Uranium weapons and the Gulf War
Syndrome. What the Department of Defense doesn't want you to know.
Beyond Treason.
Leuren Moret
08.09.05. Battle Creek Enquirer / ICH. Depleted Uranium is WMD.
26.02.06. L. Moret. The Queen’s Death Star.
07.03.06. Radiation from Iraq war detected in UK atmosphere. U.S.
Weapons Poison Europe.
22.07.06. Dr. D. Rokke, AmericanFreePress. World’s foremost
expert on the U.S. military’s use of depleted uranium speaks
out. Britain, U.S. Using Radioactive ‘Dirty Bombs.’
Dr. Rokke: VIDEO, Depleted Uranium.
6 minute Video. Blair and Bush: Killing To Go On Until We Find A
Plan. Click to see here: More Time To Bomb
“All war crimes originate at the top.”
Dr. R. Crane.
Footnotes
[1] Israeli invasion of Lebanon planned by neocons in June
(2006)
[2] 30.07.06. Observer. Cabinet in open revolt over Blair’s
Israel policy.
[3] Following this publication, I sent the article to Jon Snow and
Channel 4 news in the UK. I continued to alert them about the use
of chemical weapons. There was no response. On 29 July, Alex
Thomson reported: “Support for Israel remains strong. Is this
because people are not being informed by the Media?” Ahh, I
thought. Finally they will mention these terrible bombs. No such
luck. The program focused on how “Israeli anti-war voices
were being completely drowned out.” The western world
remains, for the most part, ignorant of the illegal US weapons
being used, as well as information about US weapon / financial
support for Israel.
[4] 28.07.06. Dahr Jamail,, Mother Jones Chest -Beating While
Losing the War.
See also: US occupation forces use WMD in Iraq:
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/WMD.htm
This research was first published by the BRussels Tribunal:
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/MeyerLebanon.htm
The url to INDEX ON ILLEGAL US WEAPONS IN LEBANON is:
http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2006/07/index-on-illegal-us-weapons-in-lebanon.html
Sarah Meyer is a researcher living in Sussex, UK. She is a member
of the BRussells Tribunal Advisory Committee
Email: sarahmeyer@fastnet.co.uk
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