Pushback on HRW Fauxtography report

I posted this on the other thread so repeating it for the update:
The limited damage and the high precision of the strikes on the ambulances suggest that the weapon was a smaller type of missile fired from an Israeli drone or helicopter.
Get a good trial lawyer on this travesty. SUGGEST lays the Jurassic Park scene – scoot over quick the part about dino genes being impossible to filch from mosquitos and then get on with the story.

Israel is in possession of an arsenal of highly precise missiles that can be fired from either helicopters or drones and are designed to limit the damage to their targets.
Generally true statement, then watch what follows …

The Israeli-designed and manufactured SPIKE anti-armor missile system and the still experimental DIME (dense inert metal explosive) missile are examples of smaller missiles designed to cause smaller explosions and limit collateral damage. Such missiles cause less powerful explosions than the previous generation of US-manufactured TOW and Hellfire missiles (often used by the IDF in assassination attempts against Palestinian militants in Gaza and the West Bank), which would have destroyed the ambulances completely.
Generally true statement about life in missle tech… apart from the illogic of building a missle system that doesn’t destroy anything, but they were just lead-in statements that blur reality with conjecture…

While the smaller missiles can be fired from either drones or helicopters, none of the witnesses reported hearing helicopters in the air before or during the attack, so it is most likely the missiles were fired from an Israeli drone.
Where’s the evidence for the “most likely” claim? They just said themselves, no witnesses reported hearing helicopters … which still leaves “no missles” as the most likely explanation (Occam’s Razor). “Drones” runs a distant, distant second.

Human Rights Watch cannot conclusively state which missiles were used in the attack on the ambulances, because our researchers did not find diagnostic shrapnel or missile parts at the scene, and because of the experimental nature of some missiles used by the IDF.
Human Rights Watch cannot conclusively state which missles, thanks to what could be the incompetence of “their researchers” (who will remain nameless and uncontactable)). Cannot means not able. That’s a true statement, absolutely, but then HRW claims it’s the fault of the Israelis that HRW can’t produce any evidence, for the Israelis are using the hitherto unheard of “experimental nature” impossibility. There is a simpler explanation. There is no evidence of missle to collect, because there were no missles.
Last collossal howlers, dressed up as proof, penetrating deeper into the outer space of science fiction:

The DIME is a weapon with a casing designed to disintegrate in an effort to minimize collateral damage from its fragmentation.
Minimize, you HRW despicable liars, does not mean vanish without a trace. Missles all have signature debris, big or small. Hiding behind the unconfirmable “experimental” is HRW’s defense.

Regardless of the weapon used, the IDF certainly has the capability to attack vehicles with limited impact missiles designed to cause low collateral damage.
But alas, dear HRW, no one on this planet has built, experimental or otherwise, any explosive device that doesn’t leave any trace of its passing. Crediting supernatural abilities to the Israelis is the excuse Human Rights Watch is using to cover the evil propaganda they help spread.
Well, spit! Zombie did a great job, laying it out for all to see.

naliaka on December 26, 2006 at 6:05 PM

naliaka on December 26, 2006 at 6:10 PM