Word: shrapnel
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...With shrapnel in his legs, arms and chest, Louw managed to crawl to the telephone and call for help before he passed out. Today, at 45, he is back on the farm with a cousin and teen-age son to help him; they live in a dramatically transformed household. It is now surrounded by a chain-wire fence, topped by barbed wire. Powerful searchlights flood the bush at night...
...well as hot plastic fragments which are undetectable by X-rays when embedded in the body. These pellets can't pierce steel, cement, or sandbags--they are designed to tear unprotected human flesh. One mother bomb can saturate an area the size of ten football fields with lethal shrapnel. Time-delay fuses are designed to explode some bomblets before they hit the earth so as to kill those sheltered in trenches; other bomblets don't explode until well after the air raid, when medical assistance has entered the bombed area...
...underground, so that its explosions injure civilians sheltered below ground. Each missile hurls out high-speed molten steel splinters. These, mixed with rock and dirt from the explosion, are blasted into the bodies of the victims, causing massive internal infections and injuries. Dangerous surgery is required to remove the shrapnel. In the December 4, 1972, issue of American Report, Dr. Ton That Tung, surgeon and Vietnamese member of the French Academy of Science, estimated that for any two people wounded in Rockeye attacks, one was killed...
...testified that Camil was equippint the fire-teams with M-1 carbines, grenades and home-made chemical bombs with fiberglass shrapnel...
Lemmer testified that Camil called the M-1 carbine "an ideal weapon for urban guerilla warfare" and showed Lemmer home-made chemical bombs, "anti-personnel devices" that spewed fiberglass shrapnel, and $2.60 wrist-rocket slingshots