BIG BANG THEORY NONSENSE

1-450 quakes recorded on Russian peninsula 2-EARTHQUAKES AROUND THE WORLD THE LAST 4 DAYS. 3-Strong typhoon rips northern Philippines. 4-Snow leaves 15,000 in B.C. without power. 5-Windstorm cuts power in northeastern U.S. states. 6-Eight killed by storms in Syria and Lebanon. 7-Tornado causes damage in Fla. town. 8-Terror Group Claims Progress in Talks for Shalit´s Release. 9-Germany confirms new Lebanon incident with Israel. 10-Italy expects GCC-EU trade pact this year. 11-Scientists reconcile discrepancy with Big Bang theory. 12-UK paper: Israel used uranium bombs.

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

450 quakes recorded on Russian peninsula

Moscow./ An erupting volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula set off as many as 450 earthquakes in the local area on a single day.

The Itar-Tass news agency reported the earthquakes were recorded Wednesday around the Karymsky volcano, which is spewing ash to an altitude of up to about 3 miles into the atmosphere and that the ash cloud could be seen from hundreds of miles away. The report said scientists have determined the volcano poses no threat to nearby settlements, but the population has been urged not to go near it. The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry warned of a threat to planes flying in the area. The Karymsky volcano, which has been erupting for years, is currently the most active of 28 volcanoes in the region, the report said.

EARTHQUAKES AROUND THE WORLD THE LAST 4 DAYS

Update time = Sun Oct 29 11:50AM EDT 2006 (USGS)

OCT 29,2006
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.4 KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
MAP 3.6 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.6 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 5.5 JAPAN REGION
MAP 4.8 COSTA RICA
MAP 4.3 NEAR THE COAST OF NICARAGUA
MAP 4.3 ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.5 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA

OCT 28,06
MAP 4.5 OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
MAP 4.1 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.2 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 2.8 PUGET SOUND REGION, WASHINGTON
MAP 2.6 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 4.5 ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.4 FIJI REGION
MAP 2.8 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 4.6 CELEBES SEA
MAP 2.7 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.2 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 5.0 OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
MAP 5.5 NICARAGUA
MAP 3.5 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION

OCT 27,06
MAP 4.3 GUAM REGION
MAP 2.9 OFF THE COAST OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.5 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.7 PUERTO RICO
MAP 3.2 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 3.3 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.1 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA

OCT 26,06
MAP 2.8 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 3.4 MAUI REGION, HAWAII
MAP 5.9 NEAR THE COAST OF CENTRAL PERU
MAP 3.2 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 5.1 KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 4.3 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP 4.0 SOUTH AFRICA
MAP 4.8 SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION
MAP 5.8 SICILY, ITALY
MAP 4.7 NORTHEAST OF TAIWAN
MAP 2.7 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.0 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC REGION
MAP 2.7 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.1 SAMOA ISLANDS REGION
MAP 2.9 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.4 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.4 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.6 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 4.9 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP 2.9 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 4.1 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 5.0 MASBATE REGION, PHILIPPINES
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STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Strong typhoon rips northern Philippines By JIM GOMEZ, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 14 minutes ago Oct 29,2006

MANILA, Philippines - One of the strongest typhoons to hit the storm-prone Philippines in years battered the mountainous north late Sunday, and the country's president urged people to prepare for the worst.Let us all pray, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said in a message on nationwide radio as she ordered schools and government offices closed in the affected area and temporarily banned bus trips there.Typhoon Cimaron lashed Isabela province with sustained winds of 121 mph and gusts of up to 143 mph, the Philippine weather bureau said. Hours earlier, the region was placed under the highest of a four-step warning system to advise residents to abandon vulnerable coasts and mountains.

The wind is really blowing strong. Trees are swaying and I can hear tin roof sheets banging about. Large areas are without light. We're expecting the worst, Armand Araneta, a provincial Office of Civil Defense officer, told The Associated Press by phone from Isabela.The storm was expected to disrupt the national All Saints' Day holiday, on Wednesday, when millions travel to cemeteries to remember their dead, some leaving days in advance for outlying provinces.

Officials warned people to cancel trips to threatened areas.We know in our culture that we should visit our dead, but this is not an ordinary typhoon, it's a super typhoon, a government official, Graciano Yumul, warned. People could figure in many accidents if they don't listen.Arroyo, who is visiting China, urged authorities and residents in the four northern provinces to stay home during the 16th typhoon to hit the country this year.

I appeal to you not to venture out, Arroyo said in her radio message.The storm was expected to weaken over land, but still should maintain typhoon strength as it emerges into the South China Sea, forecasters said.Cimaron the Philippine word for wild ox is potentially devastating to a region prone to deadly mudslides. Forecasters said the last time a typhoon this strong struck the Philippines was in December 2004, although in that case, the storm was deflected by a mountain range and casualties were minimal.Last month, Typhoon Xangsane left 230 people dead and missing in Manila and neighboring provinces.About 20 typhoon and tropical storms lash the country each year.

Snow leaves 15,000 in B.C. without power
Last Updated: Saturday, October 28, 2006, CBC News

Heavy snow in northern British Columbia downed power lines Saturday, leaving about 15,000 people without electricity around Smithers, Burns Lake and Fort St. James.

Wet snow is still falling, hampering efforts by BC Hydro to restore power, according to David Conway, a spokesman for the utility. An estimated 15,000 people are without electricity around Smithers, Burns Lake and Fort St. James B.C. (CBC) This looks like an extensive outage,Conway told CBC Newsworld, We have lost two transmission lines and have damage to other low voltage lines.

We can't give an restoration time and would urge customers to be careful around downed power lines and to turn off electrical appliances in their homes for when power is restored.Conway said the wet, heavy snow had knocked down trees and power cables. He said emergency crews were still investigating the extent and exact cause of the outage.Between 30 and 60 centimetres of snow have fallen around the area affected by the power cuts, Environment Canada said. At Smithers airport, there were reports of 49 cm of snow on the ground.

Windstorm cuts power in northeastern U.S. states
Last Updated: Sunday, October 29, 2006 , CBC News

Hundreds of thousands of people in the northeastern United States lacked power Sunday as utility crews scrambled to clear power lines of tree branches toppled by a windstorm.Heavy rains and winds clocked at 80 kilometres per hour knocked over power lines in Maine, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland and New York state on Saturday.The area most seriously affected was Long Island, N.Y., where nearly 230,000 people were left without electricity.Crews had managed to restore power to many of those by Sunday afternoon, but then winds knocked down more wires.The storm moved quickly through New Jersey and across Long Island.A wind advisory issued for the entire state of New Jersey was expected to remain in effect through Sunday night, forecasters said.

Eight killed by storms in Syria and Lebanon Oct 29,06

DAMASCUS (AFP) - Six Syrians and two Lebanese have died after torrential downpours hit both countries in the past two days, media and police sources said.

The official Syrian news agency SANA said six people, two of them firemen, had drowned in the northeast in the past two days, while police in Lebanon reported two deaths in the north of the country.Three victims bodies were recovered and searches were continuing for the three others, SANA said on Sunday.Police in Lebanon said a four-year-old boy and a shepherd, 16, died on Saturday.The boy drowned after being swept away by floodwaters in an irrigation channel, and the shepherd was killed by a bolt of lightning.Lebanese weather forecasters said they expected further heavy rainfall until Wednesday, and also snowfall above 1,800 metres (5,940 feet).

Tornado causes damage in Fla. town Sun Oct 29, 12:04 AM ET

APALACHICOLA, Fla. - This seaside town was without power Saturday after a tornado tore through the area, damaging nearly 50 buildings and slightly injuring two people, authorities said. All 1,600 customers in the area remained in the dark late Saturday but were expected to have power at some point Sunday morning, said Progress Energy spokeswoman Tanya Evans.By Saturday evening, George E. Weems Hospital had reopened its lab using generator power; workers covered the roof with tarps and the broken windows with boards.American Red Cross damage assessors said three homes were destroyed and 43 were damaged in Friday afternoon's tornado.

Butch Baker, Franklin County's emergency management director, said witnesses confirmed it was a tornado that struck the town of 2,500, about 65 miles southwest of Tallahassee.Two people went to a hospital with minor injuries, Baker said.It was like a black wall, Helen Reese, an admission clerk at George E. Weems Memorial Hospital, told The News Herald of Panama City. It was coming right at us. It was a horrible noise.The twister damaged the roofs of an elementary school, Baker said.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

JOEL 2:20,30-31
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

Terror Group Claims Progress in Talks for Shalit´s Release.
20:17 Oct 28, '06 / 6 Cheshvan 5767,by Debbie Berman(INN)

Terrorist factions responsible for the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit claimed, on Saturday, that significant progress had been made in negotiations to free Shalit within days. The claim, announced publicly by Abu Mujahed, PRC (Popular Resistance Committee) spokesperson, is based on an Egyptian proposal advocating a prisoner swap deal with Israel.

Progress has been made, and it is possible that we will know the extent of that progress in just a few more days, said Abu Mujahed, adding, There is an Egyptian proposal that would include the release of our Palestinian prisoners and we agreed on this proposal. We expect a solution to our prisoners case in the near future. Egyptian negotiators have been working to iron out a deal that would result in Shalit's release. Israeli cabinet minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer has made statements advising Israel to accept the Egyptian proposal, however Israeli diplomatic sources stated that they had no official knowledge of progress to secure the release of the kidnapped soldier.

The diplomatic sources claim that Israel is willing to consider the release of approximately one hundred Palestinian prisoners only after Shalit's release is secured, while Palestinian groups are calling for simultaneous release of their prisoners and Shalit. Osama al-Muzaini, Hamas spokesperson, stated on Saturday that real progress has been made over the issue of Shalit, but that progress did not get to the point where we can say a swap was imminent.Egyptian officials and Mashaal's deputy Moussa Abu Marzouk denied an earlier report that Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, planned to go to Egypt from Syria to take part in the ongoing negotiations. Egyptian police deployed twice the number of forces they had posted along Gaza's Philadelphi route, totaling some 1,500 officers, as a response to Israel's push to increase efforts to block the smuggling of weapons into Gaza.

Germany confirms new Lebanon incident with Israel
Sun Oct 29, 2006 4:38 PM GMT

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany said on Sunday its navy, which is patrolling the Lebanese coast as part of an international peacekeeping force, had been involved in a second incident involving Israeli fighter planes.

The Defence Ministry said it occurred on Thursday and involved a German navy helicopter and Israeli F-16 fighters.We are aware of the episode, but it was not menacing, the spokesman said, after the Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported the Israeli planes had dangerously badgered the helicopter.The spokesman said the area was used by the Israeli air force for training, adding: Perhaps other standards apply for them than for us.

On Wednesday, Israel denied a German newspaper report that two of its air force planes had fired twice as they flew over a German navy ship patrolling the Lebanon coast. But it did say jets had been scrambled when a helicopter took off from a German aircraft carrier without identifying itself.Germany confirmed at the time that that an incident had occurred, but gave no details. It subsequently received assurances from Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz that the air force would not carry out any hostile fire or manoeuvres around German vessels.Germany assumed command of a U.N. naval force off Lebanon this month, and has sent eight ships and 1,000 service personnel to join the international peace operation in the region.The naval force is charged with preventing weapons smuggling and helping maintain a cease-fire between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas.

Italy expects GCC-EU trade pact this year
By Shakir Husain, Staff Reporter

Dubai: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the European Union (EU) will be able to thrash out their differences over a free trade pact by the end of this year, an Italian minister said yesterday.The two blocs have been working towards a free trade agreement (FTA) since 1990, but they have expressed optimism recently that a deal may be finalised soon.I hope that the agreement will be signed by the end of the year. I am urging both sides to show flexibility. No agreement is ever perfect, but I think it can be approved.

It is high time we both put signatures on this agreement,said Emma Bonino, Italian Minister for International Trade and European Affairs She was speaking at the Dubai Press Club, as part of a tour through the Gulf to promote trade ties.

Progress

Both sides renewed their efforts for a trade pact in 1999 when the GCC moved to create a Gulf customs union.

Since March 2002, discussions have been progressing well despite several unresolved issues.She said European Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson will be touring the region in the coming weeks to resolve the outstanding issues. Among the issues was a GCC demand that exports of aluminium and petrochemicals from the Gulf would not face European tariffs once an FTA was reached. Due to cheap availability of energy, the GCC has a competitive advantage in aluminium production. The UAE and Bahrain are major aluminium exporters.The two sides are also addressing the issues of market access, rules of origin, procurement and application of the investment protection and guarantees criteria.

GENESIS 1:1-31,2:1-4
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.(Created,not no Big Bang)
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.(God here means plurality,Father,Son and Holy Spirit were part of creation),1 GOD (3 OFFICES).
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

GENESIS 2:1-4
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

Forget the Godless faith about the Big Bang Theory, It Says right here in Genesis 1:1 (5th WORD) CREATED,not Big banged. Lets have Faith in the truth,GODS WORDS,he created all things. People never evolved from scum or Apes, God created Man,Man and beast,beast. The only way you get a half Animal,half Human is if a human had sex with an Animal. God never created a half Animal, half Human only mans sining can create a half animal-Human, by going against Gods words and haveing sex with Animals. Thats why God Created, EVE a WOMAN, to have sex with the MAN ONLY ADAM, to multiply on the Earth, not with animals. (PERVERSION). So if there is a connection to the so called Ape-Human theory, it will be because Humans Sined and had sex with Animals to ceate a Ape-Human being.

Scientists reconcile discrepancy with Big Bang theory
Last Updated: Friday, October 27, 2006 , CBC News

Using 3-D models, physicists have created a mathematical code that cracks a mystery about stellar development and reconciles a discrepancy with the Big Bang theory of the universe's evolution.The discrepancy with the Big Bang theory revolves around the amount of helium-3 gas present in the universe. The theory predicts a certain amount of the gas in the universe, but low-mass stars about one to two times the size of our sun also make helium-3 as a side product of burning the hydrogen in their cores, according to Professor John Lattanzio from Monash's School of Mathematical Sciences and director of the Centre for Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics.

It's been thought that when the star becomes a giant it mixes the helium-3 to its surface and, near the end of its life, spews the helium-3 into space just before it becomes a planetary nebula.But there are inconsistencies with the amount of helium-3 predicted to be in the universe and the amount that's actually there; there's much less than expected, said Lattanzio.Some scientists theorized that stars destroy this helium-3 by assuming that nearly all stars were rapidly rotating, but this still conflicted with the Big Bang theory.

EZEKIEL 38:18-23
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog(LEADER,RUSSIA-MUSLIM HORDE) shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;(EARTHQUAKE AND NUKES)
20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
21 And I will call for a sword (WEAPONS) against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.(CONFUSION,PHOSPHORUS USED I BELIEVE USED HERE)
22 And I will plead against him with pestilence (CHEMICAL-BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS) and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.(NUKES)
23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Like GOD says he will protect Israel. Arabs now know the Bible will come to Pass when GOD will destroy the invading RUSSIA-MUSLIM ARMY WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS, EARTHQUAKES,PESTILENCE(COULD BE PHOSPHORUS I BELIEVE),CONFUSION TO KILL ONE ANOTHER. AND ALSO A TERRIBLE STORM.

Updated Oct. 29, 2006 9:23
UK paper: Israel used uranium bombs
By JOSH BRANNON

The IDF on Saturday denied a report by the British newspaper The Independent claiming that Israel used uranium-based munitions, including uranium-tipped bunker-buster bombs, during its war against Hizbullah in Lebanon this summer. The IDF Spokesman's Office wants to make it clear that no munitions containing uranium were used in the war in Lebanon,an IDF spokesman told The Jerusalem Post. According to the report, scientists found two soil samples thrown up by Israeli heavy or guided bombs which showed elevated radiation signatures Scientific evidence gathered from at least two bomb craters in Khiam and At-Tiri, the scene of fierce fighting between Hizbullah guerrillas and Israeli troops last July and August suggests that uranium-based munitions may now also be included in Israel's weapons inventory and were used against targets in Lebanon,it said.

The weapon was [either] some novel small experimental nuclear fission device or other experimental weapon (e.g., a thermobaric weapon) based on the high temperature of a uranium oxidation flash ...[or it] was a bunker-busting conventional uranium penetrator weapon employing enriched uranium rather than depleted uranium, Dr. Chris Busby, the British Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, told The Independent. A photograph of the explosion of the first bomb shows large clouds of black smoke that might result from burning uranium. Enriched uranium is produced from natural uranium ore and is used as fuel for nuclear reactors. A waste product of the enrichment process is depleted uranium, an extremely hard metal used in anti-tank missiles for penetrating armor. Depleted uranium is less radioactive than natural uranium, which is less radioactive than enriched uranium.

The paper said American and British forces used hundreds of tons of depleted uranium (DU) shells in Iraq in 1991 - their hardened penetrator warheads manufactured from the waste products of the nuclear industry - and five years later, a plague of cancers emerged across the south of Iraq. When a uranium penetrator hits a hard target, the particles of the explosion are very long-lived in the environment, Busby was quoted as saying. They spread over long distances. They can be inhaled into the lungs. The military really seem to believe that this stuff is not as dangerous as it is. Yet, the paper asked, why would Israel use such a weapon when its targets - in the case of Khiam, for example - were only two miles from the Israeli border? The dust ignited by DU munitions can be blown across international borders, just as the chlorine gas used in attacks by both sides in the First World War often blew back
on its perpetrators.

Chris Bellamy, the professor of military science and doctrine at Cranfield University, who has reviewed the Busby report, told The Independent: At worst it's some sort of experimental weapon with an enriched uranium component the purpose of which we don't yet know. At best if you can say that it shows a remarkably cavalier attitude to the use of nuclear waste products. Asked by The Independent if the IDF had used uranium-based munitions in Lebanon, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said: Israel does not use any weaponry which is not authorized by international law or international conventions.Currently, international law does not cover modern uranium weapons because they had not yet been invented when the Geneva Convention rules were written.Despite the denial, the Independent report, written by Robert Fisk, asserted that Israel has a poor reputation for telling the truth about its use of weapons in Lebanon.