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Date: August 27, 2007 4:10:46 PM PDT
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Subject: New, More Horrible "Weapons of Mass Destruction" (OURS)
British Army deploys new weapon
based on mass-killing technology
Parliament not told, minister says
John Byrne
Published: Thursday August 23, 2007
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/
British_Army_deploys_new_weapon_based_0823.html
A new 'super-weapon' being supplied to British soldiers in
Afghanistan employs technology based on the "thermobaric" principle
which uses heat and pressure to kill people targeted across a wide
area by sucking the air out of their lungs and rupturing their
internal organs.
The so-called "enhanced blast" weapon uses similar technology used
in the US "bunker busting" bombs and the devastating bombs dropped
by the Russians to destroy the Chechen capital, Grozny.
Such weapons are brutally effective because they first disperse a
gas or chemical agent which is lit at a second stage, allowing the
blast to fill the spaces of a building or the crevices of a cave.
When the US military deployed a version of these weapons in 2005,
DefenseTech wrote an article titled, "Marines Quiet About Brutal
New Weapon."
According to the US Defense Intelligence Agency, which released a
study on thermobaric weapons in 1993, "The [blast] kill mechanism
against living targets is unique--and unpleasant.... What kills is
the pressure wave, and more importantly, the subsequent rarefaction
[vacuum], which ruptures the lungs.… If the fuel deflagrates but
does not detonate, victims will be severely burned and will
probably also inhale the burning fuel. Since the most common FAE
fuels, ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, are highly toxic,
undetonated FAE should prove as lethal to personnel caught within
the cloud as most chemical agents."
A second DIA study said, "shock and pressure waves cause minimal
damage to brain tissue... it is possible that victims of FAEs are
not rendered unconscious by the blast, but instead suffer for
several seconds or minutes while they suffocate."
"The effect of an FAE explosion within confined spaces is immense,"
said a CIA study of the weapons. "Those near the ignition point are
obliterated. Those at the fringe are likely to suffer many
internal, and thus invisible injuries, including burst eardrums and
crushed inner ear organs, severe concussions, ruptured lungs and
internal organs, and possibly blindness."
British defense officials told the UK Guardian that British bombs
were "different."
"They are optimized to create blast [rather than heat]", one said,
speaking on the standard condition of anonymity in Britain. The
official added that it would be misleading to call them "thermobaric."
Officials told the Guardian the new weapon was classified as a
soldier launched "light anti-structure munition" and that the bombs
would be more effective because "even when they hit the damage is
limited to a confined area."
"The continuing issue of civilian casualties in Afghanistan has
enormous importance in the battle for hearts and minds," said
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell in the article. "If
these weapons contribute to the deaths of civilians then a primary
purpose of the British deployment is going to be made yet more
difficult."
According to Campbell, the deployment of the weapons was not
announced to Parliament.
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