WHO suppressed evidence on effects of depleted uranium, expert says
A World Health Organization paper on the risks to health from munitions that use depleted uranium has been called into question by a member of the editorial team that produced the report. Keith Baverstock, who worked as a WHO radiation expert, claims that research indicating a carcinogenic effect was deliberately suppressed.
Source: WHO suppressed evidence on effects of depleted uranium, expert says
Address : http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/333/7576/990-a
The conduct of secret nuclear wars since 1991, through the use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States and Great Britain with their allies, has taken place in the Middle East, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan2 and Lebanon.3 It has been carried out for the express purpose of destroying the public health and mutilating the genetic future of vast populations in oil rich and/or pipeline regions.
Source: From Hiroshima to Iraq, 61 years of uranium warsAddress : http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=5949
War crimes and Lebanon - Hiroshima Depleted Uraniumby David Rovics Saturday August 05, 2006 at 11:59 AM
A hundred thousand people were living their lives_Grandparents, children, fathers and wives_Now they're just shadows on the street_In such a quick burst of incredible heat_Now listen to them talk about doing it again_From whence came the souls of these terrible men_Hiroshima, Hiroshima__...Yes, I'm the future_Of a planet on it's knees_Radiation Sickness and disease_I'm all the armies_I'm the life that couldn't be_And when you see another baby_Think of me_When you see another baby_Think of me.
Source: War crimes and Lebanon - Hiroshima Depleted Uranium : Melbourne IndymediaAddress : http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/08/118647.php
Over 70,000 deaths, and over 1 million disabilities among American soldiers attributed to Iraq Wars
by Agora August 19, 2008
A World Health Organization paper on the risks to health from munitions that use depleted uranium has been called into question by a member of the editorial team that produced the report. Keith Baverstock, who worked as a WHO radiation expert, claims that research indicating a carcinogenic effect was deliberately suppressed.
Source: WHO suppressed evidence on effects of depleted uranium, expert says
Address : http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/333/7576/990-a
The conduct of secret nuclear wars since 1991, through the use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States and Great Britain with their allies, has taken place in the Middle East, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan2 and Lebanon.3 It has been carried out for the express purpose of destroying the public health and mutilating the genetic future of vast populations in oil rich and/or pipeline regions.
Source: From Hiroshima to Iraq, 61 years of uranium warsAddress : http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=5949
War crimes and Lebanon - Hiroshima Depleted Uraniumby David Rovics Saturday August 05, 2006 at 11:59 AM
A hundred thousand people were living their lives_Grandparents, children, fathers and wives_Now they're just shadows on the street_In such a quick burst of incredible heat_Now listen to them talk about doing it again_From whence came the souls of these terrible men_Hiroshima, Hiroshima__...Yes, I'm the future_Of a planet on it's knees_Radiation Sickness and disease_I'm all the armies_I'm the life that couldn't be_And when you see another baby_Think of me_When you see another baby_Think of me.
Source: War crimes and Lebanon - Hiroshima Depleted Uranium : Melbourne IndymediaAddress : http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/08/118647.php
Over 70,000 deaths, and over 1 million disabilities among American soldiers attributed to Iraq Wars
by Agora August 19, 2008
According to U.S. media reports, there are well below 5,000 U.S. soldiers who have been killed in Iraq. However, this data appears to be very misleading. Why? Because many tens of thousands of American soldiers have apparently been killed to-date, as a result of being exposed to radiation poisoning from the indiscriminate killing machines of U.S. military weaponry. Ironically, the only Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) that Americans soldiers have found in Iraq are "Made in America".
Source: Over 70,000 deaths, and over 1 million disabilities among American soldiers attributed to Iraq Wars GroundReportAddress : http://www.groundreport.com/US/Over-70-000-deaths-and-over-1-million-disabilities
IRAK:“We are living through another Hiroshima,” Iraqi doctor says
Sherwood Ross
The U.S., Great Britain and Israel are turning portions of the Middle East into a slice of radioactive hell. ..... reporter Scott Peterson of the Christian Science Monitor.
Source: IRAK: “We are living through another Hiroshima,” Iraqi doctor says « Les dessous de l’information mondiale-Downside World NewsAddress : http://eldib.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/irak-we-are-living-through-another-hiroshima-iraqi-doctor-says/
The U.S., Great Britain and Israel are turning portions of the Middle East into a slice of radioactive hell. They are achieving this by firing what they call "depleted uranium" (DU) ammunition but which is, in fact, radioactive ammunition and it is perhaps the deadliest kind of tactical ammo ever devised in the warped mind of man.
Source: "We are living through another Hiroshima," Iraqi doctor says The Smirking ChimpAddress : http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/13637
As I traveled through the US, UK, and Iraq to cover this story, I was confronted at every turn by the sad and frightening spectre of "discounted casualties,"- people exposed to depleted uranium and other toxic substances, and now tormented by leukemia and a whole array of chronic disorders.
Source: Discounted casualties - the human cost of depleted uraniumAddress : http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/index_e.html#6_after
Depleted Uranium and Depleted Public Opinion
Two weeks ago we reported about Depleted Uranium: The Balkans Syndrome. European governments whose militaries had taken part in the war against Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999 and are presently posted in Kosovo under the umbrella of KFOR were beginning to ask questions about the possible radioactive effects of Depleted Uranium (DU) on their soldiery. Even the British government, its back against the wall because of an uproar in public opinion, has decided to screen its military while continuing all the same to deny any causality between the Gulf War/Balkans syndrome and DU. New studies are called for, say the European politicians, so new studies have been launched.
Source: Swans Commentary: Depleted Uranium and Depleted Public Opinion, by Gilles d'Aymery - ga101Address : http://www.swans.com/library/art7/ga101.html
Depleted uranium (DU)
What is Depleted Uranium?
The misnamed 'Depleted' Uranium is left after enriched uranium is separated from natural uranium in order to produce fuel for nuclear reactors. During this process, the fissionable isotope Uranium 235 is separated from uranium. The remaining uranium, which is 99.8% uranium 238 is misleadingly called 'depleted uranium'. While the term 'depleted' implies it isn't particularly dangerous, in fact, this waste product of the nuclear industry is 'conveniently' disposed of by producing deadly weapons.
Source: Depleted uranium (DU)Address : http://www.shundahai.org/d_u.htm
The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority has estimated that 50 tons of DU dust from the first Gulf War could lead to 500,000 cancer deaths by the year 2000. To date, a total of 2,000 tons have been generated in the Middle East.
Source: Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear WeaponsAddress : http://www.naturalnews.com/023274.html
At least one in four U.S. veterans of the 1991 Gulf War suffers from a multi-symptom illness caused by exposure to toxic chemicals during the conflict. A Congressionally mandated report states: "The extensive body of scientific research now available consistently indicates that GULF WAR ILLNESS IS REAL."
Source: BIGGEST BUSH SCANDAL: Depleted Uranium TerrorismAddress : http://www.u-r-next.com/DUdeaths.html
Killing our own with depleted uranium
The United Nations classifies depleted-uranium ammunition as an illegal weapons of mass destruction because of their long-term impacts on the land over which they explode and the long-term health problems they cause when people are exposed to them. Apparently, the United States is hypocritical enough to disregard a plea not to use weapons of mass destruction.
Source: Killing our own with depleted uranium mndaily.com - Serving the University of Minnesota Since 1900Address : http://www.mndaily.com/2009/02/22/killing-our-own-depleted-uranium
Nuclear Genocide?
Piercing through the depleted uranium myths
Ronald Bailey March 26, 2003
"The United States has conducted two nuclear wars. The first is against Japan in 1945, the second in Kuwait and Iraq in 1991." So declares activist Helen Caldicott in a half-page ad placed by a Japanese anti-nuclear group in the March 24 New York Times. If you didn't hear about the Persian Gulf Hiroshima, it's because she's actually referring to depleted uranium (DU) munitions.
http://www.reason.com/news/show/34787.html
DU Munitions May Claim More Lives Than Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Radioactive fallout from DU apparently blew far and wide. Following the initial U.S. bombardment of Iraq in 2003, DU particles traveled 2,400 miles to Great Britain in about a week, where atmospheric radiation quadrupled. But it is in the Middle East, predominantly Iraq, where the bulk of the radioactive waste has been dumped. In the early Nineties, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority warned that 50 tons of dust from DU explosions could claim a half million lives from cancer by year 2000. Not 50 tons, but an estimated two thousand radioactive tons have been fired off in the Middle East, suggesting the possibility over time of an even higher death toll.
Source: DU Munitions May Claim http://antiguanoctane.gnn.tv/headlines/16188/DU_Munitions_May_Claim_More_Lives_Than_Hiroshima_Nagasaki
Source: Over 70,000 deaths, and over 1 million disabilities among American soldiers attributed to Iraq Wars GroundReportAddress : http://www.groundreport.com/US/Over-70-000-deaths-and-over-1-million-disabilities
IRAK:“We are living through another Hiroshima,” Iraqi doctor says
Sherwood Ross
The U.S., Great Britain and Israel are turning portions of the Middle East into a slice of radioactive hell. ..... reporter Scott Peterson of the Christian Science Monitor.
Source: IRAK: “We are living through another Hiroshima,” Iraqi doctor says « Les dessous de l’information mondiale-Downside World NewsAddress : http://eldib.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/irak-we-are-living-through-another-hiroshima-iraqi-doctor-says/
The U.S., Great Britain and Israel are turning portions of the Middle East into a slice of radioactive hell. They are achieving this by firing what they call "depleted uranium" (DU) ammunition but which is, in fact, radioactive ammunition and it is perhaps the deadliest kind of tactical ammo ever devised in the warped mind of man.
Source: "We are living through another Hiroshima," Iraqi doctor says The Smirking ChimpAddress : http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/13637
As I traveled through the US, UK, and Iraq to cover this story, I was confronted at every turn by the sad and frightening spectre of "discounted casualties,"- people exposed to depleted uranium and other toxic substances, and now tormented by leukemia and a whole array of chronic disorders.
Source: Discounted casualties - the human cost of depleted uraniumAddress : http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/index_e.html#6_after
Depleted Uranium and Depleted Public Opinion
Two weeks ago we reported about Depleted Uranium: The Balkans Syndrome. European governments whose militaries had taken part in the war against Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999 and are presently posted in Kosovo under the umbrella of KFOR were beginning to ask questions about the possible radioactive effects of Depleted Uranium (DU) on their soldiery. Even the British government, its back against the wall because of an uproar in public opinion, has decided to screen its military while continuing all the same to deny any causality between the Gulf War/Balkans syndrome and DU. New studies are called for, say the European politicians, so new studies have been launched.
Source: Swans Commentary: Depleted Uranium and Depleted Public Opinion, by Gilles d'Aymery - ga101Address : http://www.swans.com/library/art7/ga101.html
Depleted uranium (DU)
What is Depleted Uranium?
The misnamed 'Depleted' Uranium is left after enriched uranium is separated from natural uranium in order to produce fuel for nuclear reactors. During this process, the fissionable isotope Uranium 235 is separated from uranium. The remaining uranium, which is 99.8% uranium 238 is misleadingly called 'depleted uranium'. While the term 'depleted' implies it isn't particularly dangerous, in fact, this waste product of the nuclear industry is 'conveniently' disposed of by producing deadly weapons.
Source: Depleted uranium (DU)Address : http://www.shundahai.org/d_u.htm
The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority has estimated that 50 tons of DU dust from the first Gulf War could lead to 500,000 cancer deaths by the year 2000. To date, a total of 2,000 tons have been generated in the Middle East.
Source: Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear WeaponsAddress : http://www.naturalnews.com/023274.html
At least one in four U.S. veterans of the 1991 Gulf War suffers from a multi-symptom illness caused by exposure to toxic chemicals during the conflict. A Congressionally mandated report states: "The extensive body of scientific research now available consistently indicates that GULF WAR ILLNESS IS REAL."
Source: BIGGEST BUSH SCANDAL: Depleted Uranium TerrorismAddress : http://www.u-r-next.com/DUdeaths.html
Killing our own with depleted uranium
The United Nations classifies depleted-uranium ammunition as an illegal weapons of mass destruction because of their long-term impacts on the land over which they explode and the long-term health problems they cause when people are exposed to them. Apparently, the United States is hypocritical enough to disregard a plea not to use weapons of mass destruction.
Source: Killing our own with depleted uranium mndaily.com - Serving the University of Minnesota Since 1900Address : http://www.mndaily.com/2009/02/22/killing-our-own-depleted-uranium
Nuclear Genocide?
Piercing through the depleted uranium myths
Ronald Bailey March 26, 2003
"The United States has conducted two nuclear wars. The first is against Japan in 1945, the second in Kuwait and Iraq in 1991." So declares activist Helen Caldicott in a half-page ad placed by a Japanese anti-nuclear group in the March 24 New York Times. If you didn't hear about the Persian Gulf Hiroshima, it's because she's actually referring to depleted uranium (DU) munitions.
http://www.reason.com/news/show/34787.html
DU Munitions May Claim More Lives Than Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Radioactive fallout from DU apparently blew far and wide. Following the initial U.S. bombardment of Iraq in 2003, DU particles traveled 2,400 miles to Great Britain in about a week, where atmospheric radiation quadrupled. But it is in the Middle East, predominantly Iraq, where the bulk of the radioactive waste has been dumped. In the early Nineties, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority warned that 50 tons of dust from DU explosions could claim a half million lives from cancer by year 2000. Not 50 tons, but an estimated two thousand radioactive tons have been fired off in the Middle East, suggesting the possibility over time of an even higher death toll.
Source: DU Munitions May Claim http://antiguanoctane.gnn.tv/headlines/16188/DU_Munitions_May_Claim_More_Lives_Than_Hiroshima_Nagasaki
Depleted Uranium: The American Legacy
The DOD asserts that:
1. There is no scientific evidence of any increased health risks from exposure to Depleted Uranium, including cancer and leukemia.
2. Depleted Uranium was not a problem in the Persian Gulf War and is not a potential hazard in the Balkans, except under very limited circumstances.
Nonetheless, a review of the available research literature funded by the DOD and VA reveals clear gaps in defining the long-term effects of DU once it is introduced into the human body. The Pentagon's view that there is no need for concern because "uranium is all around us" is counter to what is slowly emerging from independent laboratory studies.Address : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2291.htm
Depleted Uranium - Far Worse Than 9/11Depleted Uranium Dust - Public Health Disaster For The People Of Iraq and AfghanistanBy Douglas Westerman 05/01/06 "Vital Truths" -- - In 1979, depleted uranium (DU) particles escaped from the National Lead Industries factory near Albany, N.Y.,which was manufacturing DU weapons for the U.S military. The particles traveled 26 miles and were discovered in a laboratory filter by Dr. Leonard Dietz, a nuclear physicist. This discovery led to a shut down of the factory in 1980, for releasing morethan 0.85 pounds of DU dust into the atmosphere every month, and involved a cleanup of contaminated properties costing over 100 million dollars. Imagine a far worse scenario. Terrorists acquire a million pounds of the deadly dust and scatter it in populated areas throughout the U.S. Hundreds of children report symptoms. Many acquire cancer and leukemia, suffering an early and painful death. Huge increases in severe birth defects are reported. Oncologists are overwhelmed. Soccer fields, sand lots and parks, traditional play areas for kids, are no longer safe. People lose their most basic freedom, the ability to go outside and safely breathe. Sounds worse than 9/11? Welcome to Iraq and Afghanistan. Dr. Jawad Al-Ali (55), director of the Oncology Center at the largest hospital in Basra, Iraq stated, at a recent ( 2003) conference in Japan:
"Two strange phenomena have come about in Basra which I have never seen before. The first is double and triple cancers in one patient. For example, leukemia and cancer of the stomach. We had one patient with 2 cancers - one in his stomach and kidney. Months later, primary cancer was developing in his other kidney--he had three different cancer types. The second is the clustering of cancer in families. We have 58 families here with more than one person affected by cancer.
Source: Depleted Uranium - Far Worse Than 9/11Address : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12903.htm
Depleted Uranium: A Post-War Disaster For Environment And Health
With contributions of:Felicity Arbuthnot · Rosalie Bertell · Ray Bristow · Peter Diehl · Dan Fahey · Henk van der Keur · Daniel Robicheau
Laka FoundationMay 1999
CONTENTS:
Preface
Depleted Uranium: a by-product of the nuclear chain
Depleted Uranium weapons: Lessons from the 1991 Gulf War
Gulf War Veterans and Depleted Uranium
The next testing site for Depleted Uranium weaponry
Thoughts of the first British Gulf War Veteran found poisoned with Depleted Uranium
The health of the Iraqi People
Uranium pollution from the Amsterdam 1992 plane crash
Organisations involved in campaigns against Depleted Uranium
Source: Depleted Uranium: A Post-War Disaster For Environment And HealthAddress : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4406.htm
Depleted Uranium For Dummies Everything you need to know about depleted uranium. Every day our troops remain in Iraq increases the chances that they will come home sick, produce children with birth defects, and die prematurely. By Irving Wesley Hall
Source: Depleted Uranium For DummiesAddress : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12452.htm
The Truth About Depleted Uranium Weaponry"The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology. "~~Michael Parenti, political scientist and author By Vincent L. Guarisco
Source: The Truth About Depleted Uranium WeaponryAddress : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6143.htm
National Press Conference on Depleted Uranium with Doug Rokke,Ph.D.
Source: National Press Conference on Depleted Uranium with Doug Rokke,Ph.D.Address : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4207.htm
WHO ‘suppressed’ scientific study into depleted uranium cancer fears in Iraq Radiation experts warn in unpublished report that DU weapons used by Allies in Gulf war pose long-term health risk
Source: WHO ‘suppressed’ scientific study into depleted uranium cancer fears in IraqAddress : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5749.htm
Source: US denies its use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons in Iraq pose any health hazardAddress : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3551.htm
The War Against Ourselves
An Interview with Major Doug Rokke
Source: US denies its use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons in Iraq pose any health hazard Major Doug Rokke, Army Reserve Major and Health Physicist in charge of DU cleanup after the Gulf War exposes the lies and talks about the British medical society blowing the whistle, while the Pentagon claims no problem. FlashPoints News RadioAddress : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3551.htm
Depleted uranium is WMD
By Leuren Moret
08/09/05 "Battle Creek Enquirer" -- -- My grandfather, U.S. Army Col. Edwin Joseph McAllister, was born in Battle Creek in 1895. He does not know that his first grandchild is an international expert on depleted uranium. I have worked in two U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories, and in 1991 I became a whistleblower at the Livermore lab. Depleted uranium is very, very, very nasty stuff:
Depleted uranium (DU) weaponry meets the definition of weapon of mass destruction in two out of three categories under U.S. Federal Code Title 50 Chapter 40 Section 2302.
Source: Depleted uranium is WMDAddress : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9728.htm
Mystery of Israel's secret uranium bomb Alarm over radioactive legacy left by attack on Lebanon By Robert Fisk
Source: Robert Fisk: Mystery of Israel's secret uranium bombAddress : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15432.htm
Silent GenocideBy Robert C. Koehler 03/25/04 "Tribune Media Services" -- "After the Americans destroyed our village and killed many of us, we also lost our houses and have nothing to eat. However, we would have endured these miseries and even accepted them, if the Americans had not sentenced us all to death." This will not be easy to read, especially if you've projected evil out of your own heart, into some cave in Afghanistan or a spider hole in Iraq, and reduced the age-old question it inspires to this one: How can we bomb it off the face of the earth? Before the damage we inflict grows greater, before history's judgment gets worse, before we contaminate the whole world - even before we vote in the next election - we must stop what we're doing. We must stop now.
Source: Silent GenocideAddress : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5941.htm
Dust off the Nuremberg Files By Anwaar Hussain 06/20/05 - - At Nuremberg, in early October 1945, the four prosecuting nations -- the United States, Great Britain, France and Russia -- issued an indictment against 24 men and six organizations of the Nazi Germany. Of that 24 only 21 eventually sat down in the trial. The individual defendants were charged not only with the systematic murder of millions of people, but also with planning and carrying out the war in Europe. Twelve Nazi officials were sentenced to be hanged, three sentenced to life in prison, four were given prison sentences of 10-20 years, and the rest were acquitted. Presently, the ongoing American and British slaughter of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan civilians constitutes a blatant war crime. Average legal skills should be able to prove that a similar case for the prosecution against the current coalition leaders can easily be constructed on comparable lines.In September 2004, the incumbent UN Chief Kofi Annan made a very clear statement. Talking to BBC Annan said "the US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter." Being the UN Chief, and the custodian of International law, he should have known what he was talking about.
Source: Dust off the Nuremberg FilesAddress : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9218.htm
Oil, Simply Oil
By Manuel Valenzuela
01/26/06 "ICH" -- -- The story of Iraq and its people since 1991 is one of immense tragedy, of a fate cruel and evil that has befallen innocent human beings whose only crime has been living inside what was once the ancient land of Mesopotamia. It is ironic that the land that first gave rise to human civilization has been made to suffer tremendous hardship in the last fifteen years, severely decimated and destroyed, its wounds hemorrhaging from incessant human cruelty. The heart of the Fertile Crescent has become a barren wasteland, its waters, the Tigris and Euphrates, those veins of sustenance for our ancient forefathers, transformed into rivers of waste and pollution and decaying death, their fertility now mutated into toxicity. Address :
The article by Ronald Bailey is a pack of lies. If you are against the use of DU, you need to consider removing it.
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