Reply #24: Is "Shake and Bake" even Kosher?

[bushmeister0]

Shake and Bake is what the Marines who used WP in Fallujah jokingly called it back in 2004.

I noted back on July 26 2006 at my blog that the NYT had reported the IDF was using WP on Lebanese citzens during the "Summer War" of 2006.

http://imnotworthy.blogspot.com/2006/07/willy-pete-moves-to-lebanon.html

And also some other as of yet undisclosed anti-personnel weapon.

The NYT reported doctors at a hospital in Nabatiye, Lebanon, said of some victims of Israel's bombs that their skin "dissolved like wet paper when he began to stitch."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/26/world/middleeast/26lebanon.html?_r=1&ref=middleeast

Now, what kind of chemical agent does that? I'm pretty sure it's not legal, but the "Mad Dog" cares little for the law, I guess.

Note today's NYT:

"One surgeon said that he had performed five amputations.

'I don’t know what kind of weapons Israel is using,' said a nurse, Ziad Abd al Jawwad, 41, who had been working 24 hours without a break. 'There is so much amputation.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/world/middleeast/05gaza.html?hp

More on the Marine's use of Mr. William Peter here:

1st Lt. Neil Prakash writes that on November 8th 2004:

"In preparation for the assault, artillery guns dropped white phosphorus or 'Willy Pete' on the city. The FA guys later told us this was the newest WP in the way it deployed. Whatever it was, it was incredible. As the rounds came in, they burst in the air several hundred feet above the ground. They streaked towards the ground in little spider trails burning bright orange. The WP hit the ground creating a thick white smoke screen but it still burned bright orange on the ground. This lit up the battlefield for the main effort, and created a smoke screen."

http://imnotworthy.blogspot.com/2005/04/meet-willy-pete.html