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Een vertegenwoordiger van defensie van de VS heeft toegegeven Mark 77 bommen te hebben ingezet in Irak. De Mark 77 zijn brandbommen die bijna identiek zijn aan de napalm bommen die zijn gebruikt in in de vietnam oorlog. Wat vinden jullie hiervan? |
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En dat ging over tomahawks waarvan de houdbaarheidsdatum meer dan 10 jaar al verstreken was. In dit geval gaat het om een bom die niet verboden is, maar wel door vele mensenrechtenorganisaties en hulporganisaties verafschuwd wordt. Omdat het onwaarschijnlijk is dat hier geen burgerslachtoffers bij vallen. Een artikel over deze a la napalm bom: Officials confirm dropping firebombs on Iraqi troops Results are 'remarkably similar' to using napalm By James W. Crawley UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER August 5, 2003 American jets killed Iraqi troops with firebombs – similar to the controversial napalm used in the Vietnam War – in March and April as Marines battled toward Baghdad. Marine Corps fighter pilots and commanders who have returned from the war zone have confirmed dropping dozens of incendiary bombs near bridges over the Saddam Canal and the Tigris River. The explosions created massive fireballs. Mark 77 Firebomb "We napalmed both those (bridge) approaches," said Col. Randolph Alles in a recent interview. He commanded Marine Air Group 11, based at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station, during the war. "Unfortunately, there were people there because you could see them in the (cockpit) video. "They were Iraqi soldiers there. It's no great way to die," he added. How many Iraqis died, the military couldn't say. No accurate count has been made of Iraqi war casualties. The bombing campaign helped clear the path for the Marines' race to Baghdad. During the war, Pentagon spokesmen disputed reports that napalm was being used, saying the Pentagon's stockpile had been destroyed two years ago. Apparently the spokesmen were drawing a distinction between the terms "firebomb" and "napalm." If reporters had asked about firebombs, officials said yesterday they would have confirmed their use. What the Marines dropped, the spokesmen said yesterday, were "Mark 77 firebombs." They acknowledged those are incendiary devices with a function "remarkably similar" to napalm weapons. Rather than using gasoline and benzene as the fuel, the firebombs use kerosene-based jet fuel, which has a smaller concentration of benzene. Hundreds of partially loaded Mark 77 firebombs were stored on pre-positioned ammunition ships overseas, Marine Corps officials said. Those ships were unloaded in Kuwait during the weeks preceding the war. "You can call it something other than napalm, but it's napalm," said John Pike, defense analyst with GlobalSecurity.org, a nonpartisan research group in Alexandria, Va. Although many human rights groups consider incendiary bombs to be inhumane, international law does not prohibit their use against military forces. The United States has not agreed to a ban against possible civilian targets. "Incendiaries create burns that are difficult to treat," said Robert Musil, executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a Washington group that opposes the use of weapons of mass destruction. Musil described the Pentagon's distinction between napalm and Mark 77 firebombs as "pretty outrageous." "That's clearly Orwellian," he added. Developed during World War II and dropped on troops and Japanese cities, incendiary bombs have been used by American forces in nearly every conflict since. Their use became controversial during the Vietnam War when U.S. and South Vietnamese aircraft dropped millions of pounds of napalm. Its effects were shown in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Vietnamese children running from their burned village. Zie hier voor die foto Before March, the last time U.S. forces had used napalm in combat was the Persian Gulf War, again by Marines. During a recent interview about the bombing campaign in Iraq, Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Jim Amos confirmed aircraft dropped what he and other Marines continue to call napalm on Iraqi troops on several occasions. He commanded Marine jet and helicopter units involved in the Iraq war and leads the Miramar-based 3rd Marine Air Wing. Miramar pilots familiar with the bombing missions pointed to at least two locations where firebombs were dropped. Before the Marines crossed the Saddam Canal in central Iraq, jets dropped several firebombs on enemy positions near a bridge that would become the Marines' main crossing point on the road toward Numaniyah, a key town 40 miles from Baghdad. Next, the bombs were used against Iraqis near a key Tigris River bridge, north of Numaniyah, in early April. There were reports of another attack on the first day of the war. Two embedded journalists reported what they described as napalm being dropped on an Iraqi observation post at Safwan Hill overlooking the Kuwait border. Reporters for CNN and the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald were told by unnamed Marine officers that aircraft dropped napalm on the Iraqi position, which was adjacent to one of the Marines' main invasion routes. Their reports were disputed by several Pentagon spokesmen who said no such bombs were used nor did the United States have any napalm weapons. The Pentagon destroyed its stockpile of napalm canisters, which had been stored near Camp Pendleton at the Fallbrook Naval Weapons Station, in April 2001. Yesterday military spokesmen described what they see as the distinction between the two types of incendiary bombs. They said mixture used in modern firebombs is a less harmful mixture than Vietnam War-era napalm. "Many folks (out of habit) refer to the Mark 77 as 'napalm' because its effect upon the target is remarkably similar." Col. Michael Daily "This additive has significantly less of an impact on the environment," wrote Marine spokesman Col. Michael Daily, in an e-mailed information sheet provided by the Pentagon. He added, "many folks (out of habit) refer to the Mark 77 as 'napalm' because its effect upon the target is remarkably similar." In the e-mail, Daily also acknowledged that firebombs were dropped near Safwan Hill. Alles, who oversaw the Safwan bombing raid, said 18 one-ton satellite-guided bombs, but no incendiary bombs, were dropped on the site. Military experts say incendiary bombs can be an effective weapon in certain situations. Firebombs are useful against dug-in troops and light vehicles, said GlobalSecurity's Pike. "I used it routinely in Vietnam," said retired Marine Lt. Gen. Bernard Trainor, now a prominent defense analyst. "I have no moral compunction against using it. It's just another weapon." And, the distinctive fireball and smell have a psychological impact on troops, experts said. "The generals love napalm," said Alles, who has transferred to Washington. "It has a big psychological effect." Bron -------- Het psychologisch effect zal grootst zijn op mij als ik napalm in de kont van Alles kon steken ![]() ![]()
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Beetje overdreven, maar ik kan het wel een beetje begrijpen
![]() In ieder geval vind ik het inzetten van deze bommen absoluut barbaars. Er is namelijk ook nog zoiets als oorlogsrecht, internationaal (voornamelijk ongeschreven) recht waarin gedragsregels voor internationale conflicten zijn vastgelegd. Landen die krijgsgevangenen maken mogen in beginsel niet gefolterd worden, mogen niet aan bepaalde vormen van geheime rechtspraak worden onderworpen e.d. Dat geldt zelfs in de V.S. (dat is de reden dat men de basis in Guantanamo Bay gebruikt, daar hebben deze mensen niet de bescherming van het oorlogsrecht). Het gebruik van napalmbommen op grondtroepen is gewoon een paardenmiddel en buitengewoon barbaars. Het is niet nodig om het 'gewenste' resultaat te bereiken en levert m.i. een onmenselijke behandeling op, ook al hebben we het hier over actieve vijandelijke soldaten en niet over krijgsgevangenen. Kijk, er ís geen humane manier om iemand te doden, of je het nu met een kogel, een knuppel of een bom doet. Maar sommige methoden zijn beslist barbaarser dan anderen. |
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Of the 696,778 troops who served during the recognized conflict phase (1990-1991) of the Gulf War, at least 20,6861 have applied for VA medical benefits. As of May 2002, 159,238 veterans have been awarded service-connected disability by the Department of Veterans Affairs for health effects collectively known as the Gulf War Syndrome.
The photos represent the surge in birth defects -- in 1989 there were 11 per 100,000 births; in 2001 there were 116 per 100,000 births -- that even before they heard about DU, had doctors in southern Iraq making comparisons to the birth defects that followed the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII. Cancer has increased dramatically in southern Iraq. In 1988, 34 people died of cancer; in 1998, 450 died of cancer; in 2001 there were 603 cancer deaths. http://www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/VISIE/Iraq-cancer.html Since 1990, the incident rate of leukemia in Iraq has grown by more than 600 percent. http://www.mothersalert.org/du3.html Kinderen lopen juichend de amerikanen tegemoet om ze te bedanken voor het gegooi met napalm: http://www.gallerym.com/pixs/photogs...nam_napalm.htm During the war about 10% of Vietnam was intensively sprayed with 72 million litres of chemicals, of which 66% was Agent Orange. Some of this landed on their own troops and soon after the war ended veterans began complaining about serious health problems. There was also a high incidence of their children being born limbless or with Down's syndrome and spina bifida. The veterans sued the defoliant manufacturers and this was settled out of court in 1984 by the payment of $180 million. The TCCD dioxin used in Agent Orange seeped into the soil and water supply, and therefore into the food chain. In this way it passed from mother to foetus in the womb. In Vietnam the dioxide remains in the soil and is now damaging the health of the grandchildren of the war's victims. A report published in 2003 claimed that 650,000 people in Vietnam were still suffering from chronic conditions as a result of the chemicals dropped on the country during the war. Since the war the Vietnamese Red Cross has registered an estimated one million people disabled by Agent Orange. It is estimated that 500,000 people in Vietnam have died from the numerous health problems created by these chemical weapons. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/VNchemical.htm Hiep hiep... Hoera!
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En waarom haal je Agent Orange erbij? We weten intussen wel dat de VS de bron van al het kwaad zijn. |
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een beetje zielig om hier over te gaan zeuren hoor.... toen de amerikanen gifgas gebruikten om de duitsers uit de ardennen te verjagen werd er ook niet gezeurd, toen waren we blij dat ze het deden... en nu zouden we wel moeten gaan protesteren omdat ze de irakezen er mee 'bevrijden'. laat de mensen maar gaan protestern tegen de oorlog in irak, doen ze nog iets nuttigs.. en dat gas in 1944 ook al mensen doodde was toen ook al bekend..... al in 1917
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Als jij nucliar materiaal al niets vind, waarom ondersteun je dan de zoektocht naar massavernietigings en chemische wapens in irak? Als de VS het mag doen, waarom Saddam dan niet ![]() |
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Ik snap het punt niet van protesteren tegen brandbommen, behalve de vergrote kans op burgerslachtoffers.
Ik bedoel soldaten krijgen anders een paar kogels door hun kop. Is dat beter ofzo? Wat is het alternatief waar jullie naar zoeken? Dat elke soldaat vreedzaam een pil van drion krijgt toegedient? Protesteer tegen oorlog in het algemeen of protesteer niet.
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Lees het stuk van Gatara eens als je dat nog niet gedaan hebt
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internationale verdragen hebben meer inhoud gekregen en jammer genoeg valt deze bom nog niet onder de verboden wapens, maar zou wel hieronder genoemd kunnen worden in de toekomst.
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verdragen hebben in deze tijd misschien nog wel zin, maar als een land op het punt van vernietiging staat dan willen ze heus wel dat soort wapens inzetten... kijk maar eens naar israel....
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Fleet en Asassin hebben gelijk, waarom zouden we Amerika moeten dwarsbommen? ![]() Lig jij s'nachts wakker omdat je je zorgen maakt over irak???
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