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http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030127/ January 27, 2003 TIME magazine requires online fee unfortunately TIME -Rumsfeld will depend on microwave weaponry- America's Ultra-Secret Weapon HOW IT WORKS: (1) THE PAYLOAD. Tomahawk cruise missiles could carry microwave weapons; (2) THE DAMAGE. The electrical surge can fry the electronics needed to deliver enemy weapons of mass destruction ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1429_W_826056,00.html Horrific wounds among U.S. soldiers, says medic A Colorado newspaper has quoted a neurosurgeon treating wounded U.S. soldiers from Iraq at a U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, as saying that TV reports were sanitising the war. Dr Gene Bolles said wounded being flown to Landstuhl were young men, aged 18, 19, and 20, with "horrific injuries", including lost arms, legs and hands, and significant brain injuries. The newspaper, Colorado's "Boulder Daily Camera", said Dr. Bolles is a 66-year civilian medic and a former Vietnam War surgeon. Up until Friday, the hospital at Landstuhl had received 281 wounded from the war. Plane-loads were arriving regularly. Officially, the USA lists 75 dead; Britain, 27 killed. Iraq has not stated its military losses, but puts civilian casualties at 1,252 killed and 5,103 injured. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,898550,00.html US plan for new nuclear arsenal Secret talks may lead to breaking treaties The Bush administration is planning a secret meeting in August to discuss the construction of a new generation of nuclear weapons, including "mini-nukes", "bunker-busters" and neutron bombs designed to destroy chemical or biological agents, according to a leaked Pentagon document. The meeting of senior military officials and US nuclear scientists at the Omaha headquarters of the US Strategic Command would also decide whether to restart nuclear testing and how to convince the American public that the new weapons are necessary. ....more ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0304/baard.php The Village Voice, January 22 A Pill to Wipe the Conscience Clean New Science Raises the Specter of a World Without Regret The Guilt-Free Soldier ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- pg, nyc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dirk Adriaensens" <dirk.adriaensens@skynet.be> To: <soc-casi-discuss@lists.cam.ac.uk> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 7:17 AM Subject: [casi] Fw: reports Belgian medical team, from Baghdad [ Presenting plain-text part of multi-format email ] Hello all, I received an answer regarding the "mystery weapon" that has been used near Hilla. Is there anybody who could explain this type of weapons a little more? It seems that after the use of the "harmless" DU in 1991, the US-army is now using new horrible types of ammunition that they call euphemistic "non lethal". dirk, this just came in from leuren morett concerning the mystery weapon "Thank you Davey. I think that weapon that fried the busload of people is a version of the microwave weapon that the US Marines revealed in a press conference 1-2 years ago - they wanted to use it in the US for "crowd control". These are called NLW, non-lethal weapons, but all you do is turn the dial a little more to the right and "oops we fried them".... Many of the new weapons and the military research has been on "directed energy" - pain beams, heat the enemy up until his skin is burning, fry his brain or scramble it, alter moods, its really really really really wicked. What are the Brits there for? The US is going to ruin their reputation..." ----- Original Message ----- From: Dirk Adriaensens To: soc-casi-discuss@lists.cam.ac.uk Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 7:52 PM Subject: reports Belgian medical team, from Baghdad Dear list, here are two more reports from the 2 Belgian doctors who are still in baghdad. Tomorrow, saturday, Medical Aid for the Third World, in cooperation with SOS Iraq, will send 2 more medical doctors to Baghdad to reinforce their medical team. We think it is very important that impartial reports of "non-embedded" sources keep reminding us about the horrors of this war. This war is particularly "dirty", and many innocent civilians die. And the lies keep coming. Remember that independent journalist are being harrassed, locked up, tortured and even killed by "friendly fire". A Belgian TV-journalist, who is in the south of Iraq, has described the hostilities of British troups against him yesterday in the 8 o'clock news. Disgraceful. Now the US/UK-aggressors are using new types of bombs and ammunition. Can anyone tell me more about this type of bombs, which Geert describes in the first report? It has something to do with liquid copper or something. Horrible. Why doesn't the BBC report about this? Surely they must have access to these places, have knowledge about these incidents, because these regions are under US/UK control, they say. To me and others all around the world, the BBC has lost all its credibility. They can't be trusted anymore. They have proven to be a part of the US/UK war-machine. Masks have fallen. Shame on them. Greetings. Dirk Adriaensens. www.irak.be http://www.irak.be/ned/missies/medicalMissionColetteGeert/two_belgian_doctor s_in_baghdad.htm About the horrors of war, 100 km south of Baghdad Bert de Belder april 4 2003 "I have two awful stories to tell", Geert immediately starts when I get him on the line. "Today we drove to Hilla, a small town near Babylon that was heavily bombed yesterday. One poor district was hit by 20 to 25 bombs. The hospital of Hilla received in the next half an hour 150 seriously injured patients. Dr. Mahmoud Al-Mukhtar said that the wounds were caused by clusterbombs. These are bombs that explode into many small bombs that again explode individually and cause enormous damage. Clusterbombs are banned by the International Laws on War, but Bush completely disregards these! In the hospital I have seen very many abrading situations. A family of eleven persons, of whom six are dead. A father who is left with one child; his wife and two sons are dead. Small children with amputated limbs." "My second story is even more horrible", warns Geert. "About a bus with civilians that was fired upon. Not the one in Najaf, which reached the news everywhere, but a case that according to me has not yet been covered by western media. Three days ago, In Al Sqifal, near Hilla, a passenger bus was fired upon from an American checkpoint, with ghastly results. According to witnesses the bus stopped on time and had, on orders of the American Military, turned back. Dr. Saad El-Fadoui, a 52 years old surgeon who still has studied in Scotland, was immediately on the place of incident from the hospital in Hilla. When he told me what he had seen there, he again became very emotional, three days after it had happened. 'The bodies were al carbonized, terribly mutilated, torn into pieces, he sighs. 'In and around the bus I saw dismembered heads, brains and intestines,..' One wonders what a criminal weapon of massdestruction could have caused these horrors. Nobody had heard the sound of an explosion; on the bodies no traces of shrapnel were found. A journalist spoke of a heat-weapon with liquid cupper or something like that.. Can the Americans be really that cruel? Dr. Saad El-Fadoui asked us repeatedly to do everything to help stop this horrible war of aggression. Geert understands me poorly when I say something, the line is not always clear. "We are momentarily without electricity", he explains. "Large blocks in Baghdad are without electricity, last night the bombardment was very severe. Colette (Geert's college-doctor Dr. Collete Moulaert) saw from her hotel room, just behind the mosque in this neighborhood, two enormous fireballs coming down. I think that these are containerbombs of about 7-8 tons each that cause enormous vibrations. "I am shivering of the cold", Collete said, but this was the vibration caused by the bomb explosion. "You should not belief everything what CNN and BBC are showing, Geert informs us. "That we were able to travel today up to Hilla (near Babylon, south of Kerbala) with a large group 'human shields', 100 km south-west of Baghdad, proves convincingly that the Iraqi capital is not being completely surrounded and besieged. Along the way we hardly saw Iraqi troop movements. On the 100 km route we didn't pass any Iraqi checkpoint, and hardly saw signs of war. There were groups of scattered houses, trees, even children playing with paper kites.. One time we were told to take a side road because a colon of 20 to 30 Iraqi tanks had to pass. This again disproves the charges that the Iraqi army is using civilians as shield for military operations: our civilian vehicle was first sent safely to another road before the Iraqi army passed. On our way back the Americans and British were bombing the area. For our safety we had to take a new another road, but this was also nearly hit by a bomb, followed by a tick plume of smoke. This was frightening for a while, because we were not safely in our hotel, but in the open air. "Today in one civilian hospital: 2 dead and 30 injured" april 2 2003 "From this morning until late this afternoon, Dr. Colette Moulaert and me were at the Al-Yarmouk hospital. Some thirty injured were brought to the hospital. Apparently, a bomb had struck in the vicinity. I was at the emergency ward where I saw 2 dead and several injured patients because of shrapnels. The hospital staff already knows us. While other westerners, mostly journalists, are given a short tour, we can freely accompany the doctors. An orthopedic surgeon called me in his consultation room and asked me advice on some of his patients. We exchanged experiences with pain management. It made a welcome change for the psycho-social support we usually give. When you get to know the hospital from the inside, you notice the shortages: some pain relievers and antibiotics for example. But at a press conference I heard vice-president Ramadan reiterate that Iraq doesn't need humanitarian assistance. What is needed is the end of the US aggression and the sanctions, and the unfreezing of Iraqi bank accounts. Iraq is too proud to beg for humanitarian aid and understandably so. But the Iraqi health authorities welcome the assistance of organizations--like Medical Aid for the Third World--that work in the first place for the removal of the root causes of the Iraqi people's suffering, the armed aggression of the US and the UK, and that show their solidarity with the Iraqi people. Do you want to hear another anecdote about the weapons inspections? Today we also dropped in at the El-Mustansiriya University. It has been under fire for five days although it had been searched thoroughly by the weapons inspectors who proclaimed it free of weapons. And still it was a target for the US! Are you surprised that the people here say the weapons inspections only served to identify targets for the bombings?" Support the work of Geert and Colette in Baghdad: Bank account number 001-1951388-18 of Medical Aid for the Third World with reference "Iraq mission." _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. 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