It's nice to know you're jumping on a bandwagon and using someone else's words and eivdence. In any case, Israel will be presenting its evidence to the UN soon. The UN in the past has played quite a nasty little role in the affairs of Israel.
-Rudey
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Originally posted by RACooper
Hmm... I'm sorry but this looks like some faulty intelligence on the IDF part if this is an official new release.
Hear me out... there are three variants of the Kassam (or Qassam) Missile - all stats taken from IDF website
Kassam 1
79 cm long - 60mm caliber - 5.5 kg - 0.5 kg warhead - 3 km range
Kassam 2
180 cm long - 150mm caliber - 32 kg - 5-7 kg warhead - 8 km range
Kassam 3
200+ cm long - 170mm caliber - 90 kg - 10-20 kg warhead - 10 km range
Now in the footage of the "suspected" militant loading the object into the back of the UN vehicle, the object appears to be well over 79cm (3ft) long - which would mean that it would have to be a Kassam 2 or 3... which do appear to be the right length. Now the problem is, as the UN has also pointed out, is that then the weight would preclude a man from casually carrying it in one hand as either a Kassam 2 or 3 would weigh 70lbs or 200lbs.
Now the UN claims that it appears to them that the man was loading a folded up stretcher into the back of the vehicle, and I have to say from looking at the footage, they appear to be right... heck you can even see the leg at the back.
This leads me to ask why the IDF would release this footage in a seeming attempt to discredit the UN...
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