Sunday, September 03, 2006
MISSILE STORY IX
The story so far, according to two pieces in the Australian and three in the Age:
* On July 23, two Red Cross ambulances were attacked by an Israeli Apache helicopter that was also a drone.
* The ambulances were struck by rockets, missiles, Israeli bombs, small weapons, and a large explosion.
* All six people on board the two ambulances were severely injured, including the driver of ambulance 782, who suffered a lack of serious wounds.
* The driver of ambulance 782, Qasin Shalin, escaped serious injury because he was protected by the driver’s canopy and by the rear ramp of the ambulance.
* Shalin was inside the ambulance and outside the ambulance while it was moving and parked at the moment the rockets, missiles, Israeli bombs, small weapons, and large explosion hit.
* Concussion from the missile easily dispersed through the ambulance’s open doors. And caused the roof and windscreen to ... cave in.
* Florida-based blogger Zombie, who is based in San Francisco, devoted 28 pages to discredit the story by using limited and selective images. Zombie’s work led to a speech from the Australian foreign affairs minister but it is not clear how successful he has been at getting his message out.
* Ahmed Mohammed Fawaz was inside ambulance 782 and inside the second ambulance.
* Fawaz couldn’t stop the bleeding from his leg wound which had been sealed and cauterised.
* Israeli drones fire warheads so small that they don’t kill people directly in their path and also puncture huge holes in ambulances.
Earlier analysis here and here. Check out Saint and Dan Riehl, too.