Ball Bearings: Hezbollah’s WMD

The National Review’s Deroy Murdock documents the damage done by ball bearings packed into Katyusha rockets, arguing they should be…

By August 13, 2006

Hezbollah_ball_bearings_iiThe National Review’s Deroy Murdock documents the damage done by ball bearings packed into Katyusha rockets, arguing they should be classified as weapons of mass destruction, writing:

“If you wanted to bring down a building, you would make a weapon with a heavier blast,” Dr. Eran Tal-Or, Surgical Emergency Room director at Haifa’s Ramban Hospital, told Human Rights Watch. “You wouldn’t bother with the balls inside that don’t do much harm to buildings, just to people.”

See Dutchblog Israel for more photos of their destructive power.

(Hat tip: Daily Alert)

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