Monday, February 16, 2009

Gaza: Death's Laboratory

Erik Fosse, a Norwegian cardiologist, worked in Gaza
hospitals during the recent war."It was as if they had
stepped on a mine," he says of certain Palestinian
patients he treated. "But there was no shrapnel in the
wound. Some had lost their legs. It looked as though
they had been sliced off. I have been to war zones for
30 years, but I have never seen such injuries before."

Dr. Fosse was describing the effects of a U.S. "focused
lethality" weapon that minimizes explosive damage to
structures while inflicting catastrophic wounds on its
victims. But where did the Israelis get this weapon?
And was their widespread use in the attack on Gaza a
field test for a new generation of explosives?

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5862


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