Why is there an exhaust header sitting in the vehicle? Were pieces picked up after the attack and just shoved in? It looks like part of the radiator or grille is included. I doubt they normally carry spare parts….

Why would an impact on the roof blow off the exhaust?

If one looked at the bottom of the picture, it looks as if whatever impacted the roof was going at a slight angle from the bottom towards the top. The bottom appears more rounded than other parts of the hole.

About half way up on either side, from 9 o’clock to 12 and 3 o’clock to 12, it looks like cuts were made, and the upper halves were peeled back. Why are these not more rounded as would be expected?

Why is the hole in the floor much smaller? Is it possible whatever originally impacted made a similarly small hole in the roof as in the floor, but the roof hole is much larger because it was peeled back?

Humm, I guess that Israeli researchers not only discovered a new weapon that completely disintegrates on impact with thin sheet metal (WOW, that’s a useful weapon, NOT!) and causes immediate massive corrosion as is apparent in the photo (note: I live in Minnesota and know that it takes several months of exposure to account for that amount of corrosion even in our relatively wet environment), they also discovered a new area of physics where a large force can dissipate without conducting heat into the surrounding area! That technology will be useful when Al Gore announces the existence of the matter/antimatter reactor that Big Oil has been concealing since the 70’s.

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

It saves time and sanity.

Got some Old War Dogs business to take care of and at least one site banner to redesign sometime soon; gonna have to play some catch-up. One of the major fauxtography stories may or may not have been debunked. Read…

HRW’s thesis is that Israel fired the dumbest projectile ever at ambulances. It’s crapola. This is like still believing in the Lucy Ramirez/TANG docs.

The report is merely meant to be a foil for fauxtography detectives.

Ain’t workin, apparently.

Their report doesn’t conclusively prove or disprove anything zombie documented, and I doubt after a zombiefied response, they’ll be another 5 months trying to recover and respin.