There would be fierce reprisals, say officials in Tel Aviv, if there are large scale casualties.
official, said at a House hearing in October 1999, "they are difficult to process into a lethal form and successfully deliver to achieve large-scale casualties".
The letter calls on David Cameron to look for "political solutions" and points out that wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya show that "western military interventions lead to large-scale casualties, devastating destruction and huge flows of refugees".
As curfew fell, the details of how the siege ended and how many people might have been injured remained unclear, though there were no reports of large-scale casualties.
During the 115-day trial, prosecutors accused the group, led by an Algerian-born Muslim cleric, Abdul Nacer Benbrika, of plotting to use weapons and explosives to attack sites including the cricket ground and railway stations with the intention of causing large-scale casualties.
The blast at the Erawan Shrine was unprecedented in the Thai capital, where smaller bombs have been employed in domestic political violence over the past decade, but not in an effort to cause large-scale casualties.
The Watchtower project is established to give data on a large scale basis about contacts to casualty clinics in Norway, and can thus be useful for national statistics, research, and also system improvements.
However, the successful implementation of any large scale medical response for a mass casualty radiation event will depend upon the availability and utility of diagnostic tests to determine radiation exposure status and dose of exposure among victims and the availability of therapeutics that can be administered to mitigate radiation damage to vital organ systems [2] [4], [7], [8].
The activists' concern would have been unheard-of a year ago, when a series of large-scale civilian casualty episodes caused by NATO forces outraged Afghans and prompted President Hamid Karzai to repeatedly condemn his own allies.
In the past, medical students have been involved in direct patient care in large-scale mass casualty incidents.
