"Sonic gun" used by police in Honduras now used against G-20 protesters?

[Joanne98]

I couldn't help but notice a photograph on Page A16 of today's Washington Post showing demonstrators against the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh running away from "an ear-splitting siren" used by the police to disperse protesters.

The Washington Post story mentions "sound cannons".

Here's more mention in an AP report:

The marchers did not have a permit and, after a few blocks, police declared it an unlawful assembly. They played an announcement over a loudspeaker ordering people to leave and then police in riot gear moved in to break it up. Authorities also used a crowd-control device that emits a deafening siren-like noise, making it uncomfortable for protesters to remain in the area.

lysias's diary :: :: I couldn't help but notice this because recent reports about the golpista crackdown in Honduras against supporters of constitutional President Zelaya have repeatedly spoken about "sonic guns" ("cañónes sónicos") supplied by Israel being used by the police.

Here is the most detailed article that I have so far found: "Cañón sónico" para revoltosos <"Sound Gun" for Rioters>. It is from yesterday's La Tribuna, a Honduran newspaper:

TEGUCIGALPA.- Tecnología de punta estrenó la Policía Nacional contra los miembros de la "Resistencia", al utilizar el "cañón sónico", lo que les ha ayudado a bajar la violencia entre los seguidores de Manuel Zelaya.

Los manifestantes arrojaban piedras y palos, pasa un carro blanco con dos policías e igual número de militares, con dos aparatos desconocidos, semejantes a parlantes de sonidos, pero no de los convencionales, se miran modernos.

Pocos segundos después emite un sonido que corta el aire: La multitud agitada, cae en pánico, se tapa los oídos y se contuerce del dolor.

Es la última arma secreta en dotación desde hace tiempo por el ejército de Israel, usada públicamente sólo ahora después de muchos años de experimentación.

The article is accompanied by a photo of the "sonic gun" in use, and it appears to be the same device that WaPo's photo of the running protesters in Pittsburgh shows on top of a police truck.

There have been repeated recent reports that Israeli soldiers have been training and supplying the golpista forces in Honduras. This report from yesterday, Ejército de Honduras usa armas electrónicas de última generación indicates that a retired Israeli general on scene is in charge of the operation:

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/25/786333/-Sonic-g...

WHY are the Israelis interferring in Honduras? Are they from the Israeli government or hired mercs? Does anybody know?

[flamingdem]

1. Does this gun damage hearing ? nt

[Xenotime]

2. Yes. It is extremely loud.

[grasswire]

3. MSNBC had some sound of it tonight

....and they said the decibel level is considerably above the threshold for damage to hearing.