The "expert" who blames Israel of Gaza beach blast

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The "expert" who blames Israel of Gaza beach blast
From Haaretz:

”...the British newspaper The Independent on Wednesday quoted a former Pentagon
“battle damage expert,” who visited the site of the incident, as saying that
“all the evidence points” to a “155mm Israeli land-based artillery shell” as the
cause of the blast.
“According to the report, Marc Garlasco also called for
an independent inquiry into the deaths, saying that physical evidence, including
shell fragments, shrapnel and the type of injuries ‘made Israeli shelling easily
the likeliest cause.’”

His background? From Mother Jones:

Marc Garlasco is the senior military analyst at Human Rights Watch (HRW), and is
HRW’s resident expert on battle damage assessment, military operations, and
interrogations. Marc also leads HRW’s work on Abu Ghurayb, civilian military
contractors, and non-lethal weapons.
Marc is the co-author of two HRW
reports: “Razing Rafah: Mass Home demolitions in the Gaza Strip,” and “Off
Target: The Conduct of the War and Civilian Casualties in Iraq.” He led a team
of researchers in July 2004 on a one-month mission to Gaza, Israel, and Egypt to
investigate home demolitions in Rafah. Before that he led a five-week mission in
2003 throughout Iraq to assess the conduct of the war in Iraq.

He also appeared to be a key person responsible for disclosing the previously classified and secret practice of renditions of terrorists suspects
Lately he has been peddling the Haditha massacre myth... which has been seriously questioned. He has said, ” “What happened at Haditha appears to be outright murder. The Haditha massacre will go down as “Iraq’s My Lai” in his view.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH is a notoriously anti-Israel advocacy group funded by George Soros-who, he proudly admits, is anti-Israel. According to NGO Monitor and well-respected Professor Anna Bayefsky, Human Rights Watch “has a lot of explaining to do when it comes to anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias.”
He has participated in panels with anti-Semitic conspiracy-monger Karen Kwiatkowski.
In other words, how independent is this expert and how wrong was it for the Independent to rely on him?
Ed Lasky 6 14 06

The only expertise these type of "experts" have, is how to propogate, darn, it works (on so many)!