-Caveat Lector- ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "Eva Lyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Crockett Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: DU weapons - radioactive soldiers? Date: Thursday, February 20, 2003 10:47 PM
David, thanks for forwarding the Weapons inspection team mail to Rep Kucinich. The following is material I have just send to our Prime Minister. We must keep actively involved in the interest of humanity, like Sai Baba says. Cheers, Eva *** Dear Prime Minister; The following two articles must give us pause in sending our young men and women into these contaminated areas, whether to fight or keep the peace. There is enough evidence that conditions like the Gulf War syndrome are at least in part due to the radioactive material faced by our personnel. You will agree that the enclosed articles paint a disturbing picture. Will our soldiers come back like so much living, breathing "toxic waste" that cannot be decontaminated, and will affect the health and welfare of those near them? I think Canada should refuse to send soldiers to any "theater" where DU or non-DU radioactive munitions are/have been (or will be) used. I would certainly refuse to serve in such places, and would not want my kids to serve there. Have our military planners no conscience at all? Some of these young people will plan families. Will we just stand by while they produce kids with gross deformities? Will the radioactive servicemen contaminate their existing kids? Their partners? Please read these articles carefully, and before we send anyone anywhere, either to the Gulf, Afghanistan or the Balkans, let's make sure they will not be walking through radioactive dust. If enough of US' allies refused to send their forces to support wars where these munitions are used, I think the Americans would stop using them. Sincerely, Eva Lyman ECONEWS SPECIAL ISSUE FEBRUARY 2003 DEPLETED URANIUM It's dirty, and it's deadly. When you coat a shell with it, it slices through armoured plating as if it was cheese, turning tanks, buildings and bomb shelters into exploding incinerators. It causes cancer among people who breathe its dust, or touch it. It causes horrible birth defects among the babies of pregnant women who breathe it or touch it. It causes a host of chronic ailments and sicknesses among returning troops. It was used by the US army in Iraq, in Kosovo, and Afghanistan. The United Nations wants a worldwide ban on it. The US plans to use it again, in its war on Iraq. What is it? It's a waste product that arises during the production of enriched uranium for nuclear weapons and reactors. It's called depleted uranium. It has a radioactive half-life of 4.5 billion years. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old. This means that the cities, battlefields, and locations where depleted uranium is used will be radioactive and remain radioactive for the next 4.5 billion years. That's as long as the Earth has existed. That's twice as long as the entire evolution of life on Earth. Seventy times longer than the time since the dinosaurs became extinct. Depleted uranium is extremely dense; that's what makes it capable of slicing into heavily armoured vehicles. That's why the American military likes it. In the Gulf War, in 1991, the US army fired off a million rounds of depleted uranium, totalling 300 tons. In Baghdad, where they thought they were attacking a secret bunker, they sliced into it with depleted uranium and incinerated 800 women and children who were hiding in a shelter. Along the "highway of death", outside Basra, in southern Iraq, they incinerated every tank, every soldier. Along that road, the shell-holes in the blown-up tanks are 1000 times more radioactive than the background. The desert near the vehicles is 100 times more radioactive. 70% of the uranium burns on impact, turning into as a fine ceramic dust of depleted uranium oxide particles which gets blown on the wind, and washed into the groundwater. In the Basra region, there has been a 100-fold increase in uranium in the groundwater. And then there's the birth defects. Children born with fingers missing. Children born with legs missing. Children born with parts of their face missing. Children born with their eyes missing. Children born with grossly deformed skulls. Children born with enormous distended bellies. Children born with no hands. Children born with no genitals. Children born with no skin over their bellies. Children born with open holes in their backs. Children born whose bodies are beyond words, in their pitiful awfulness. There has been a 10-fold increase in such birth defects in the Basra region since 1988. I have seen the photos of these children. You can see them for yourself at http://www.web-light.nl/VISIE/extremedeformities.html. But be warned - these photos are not for the squeamish, and may give some people nightmares. They are also at http://www.ngwrc.org/Dulink/du_link.htm There has also been a 17-fold increase in cancer in southern Iraq since 1988, and a sudden increase in childhood leukemia. That was Iraq. Then there was Afghanistan. The data is still sketchy, but tests on residents in Jalalabad have found a level of uranium in the urine of residents that is 400% to 2000% higher than normal. The contamination is also present in Kabul. A scientific team from the Uranium Medical Research Centre that went to Kabul in September 2002 found that people who had been exposed to debris from the US/British precision bombing were reporting pains in their joints, back and kidney pain, muscle weakness, memory problems, confusion, and disorientation. Members of the team began to complain of the same symptoms. They found that 25% of new-born infants were suffering from congenital and post-natal health problems that appeared to be associated with uranium contamination. So what happened to the US and British troops who were exposed to the same dust? It's hard to sort out, because the troops who served in the Gulf were exposed to a cocktail of injections and chemical and biological hazards, as well as depleted uranium. But the symptoms are telling. There were 700,000 US troops who served in the Gulf War in 1991. 50% were black or Latino. Many were women. 260,000 have applied for medical benefits. 159,000 have been awarded disability allowances. Many are probably on low incomes, who cannot afford expensive medical insurance. They call it Gulf War Syndrome; nobody in the military wants to talk about it. The returning troops are suffering from reactive airway disease; neurological damage; cataracts; kidney problems; lymphoma; skin and organ cancer; neuropsychological problems; uranium in their semen; sexual dysfunction; and birth defects in their offspring. Birth defects are turning up four times more often in the children of those who served in the Gulf than normal. (see www.chronicillnet.org/online/lifemag.html) That was Afghanistan. Now a new war on Iraq looms. A new round of death. A new nightmare. Unless we stand together, work together, pray together, and call out together to stop it, and to outlaw depleted uranium forever, as the United Nations has recommended. Four and a half billion years. Sources: Afghanistan: The Nuclear Nightmare Starts: www.truthout.org/docs_02/011103E.dpltd.urnim.htm Born Soldiers: Birth Defects from Depleted Uranium in the Gulf? http://www.chronicillnet.org/online/lifemag.html International Action Center's Depleted Uranium Education Project: http://www.iacenter.org Iraqi cancers, birth defects blamed on U.S. depleted uranium. Seattle Post Intelligencer: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/iraq2002/95178_du12.shtml National Gulf War Resource Center: http://www.ngwrc.org/Dulink/du_link.htm Written and compiled by Guy Dauncey, Victoria, B.C., Canada Author of Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change. Editor of EcoNews. http://www.earthfuture.com. -------------next article Afghanistan: The Nuclear Nightmare Starts By Davey Garland CoastalPost.com When questions were asked in the British parliament a year ago about whether depleted uranium (DU) weapons had been used in the military strikes on Afghanistan, "It is not being used at present" was defense minister Geoff Hoon's reply. A few days earlier, Hoon had been similarly vague on the issue, assuring us that: "No British forces currently engaged in operations around Afghanistan are armed with depleted uranium ammunition. However, we do not rule out the use of depleted uranium ammunition in Afghanistan, should its penetrative capability be judged necessary in the future." The defense minister played his cards close to his chest, no doubt having been informed that DU or other uranium weapons were being used by the United States (and no doubt British) forces to penetrate the caverns of Tora Bora and other targets (including civilian ones), especially in the vicinity of Kabul. The refusal of the Ministry of Defense to fully admit that dangerous uranium weapons may have been used in Afghanistan and the conflicts in the Balkans (Bosnia and Kosova), when evidence shows the contrary, illustrates just how sensitive the government is to the possibility that its use, or its collusion in the use, of weapons of mass destruction may be discovered. This is not just because thousands of innocent civilians will suffer due to radiological (and heavy metal) poisoning, but also because the government is prepared to send British troops and aid workers, possibly for a long occupation of the war zones, ill-equipped and vulnerable to contamination. When the Afghan crisis began, many of us believed that a great amount of DU/dirty uranium would be used to achieve the US-British campaign objectives, both to penetrate the opposition's hideouts in rocky terrain and to test new weapons systems (dirty uranium or dirty DU contains radioactive contaminants, such as plutonium isotopes, derived from spent fuel from power reactors). The amount used in Afghanistan might have exceeded the several hundred ton's of DU/dirty uranium used in the 1990-91 Gulf War and the Balkans conflicts. Startling report A startling new report based on research in Afghanistan indicates that our worst fears have been realized. The study, produced by the Uranium Medical Research Centre (UMRC), points to the likelihood of large numbers of the population being exposed to uranium dust and debris. Dr. Asaf Durakovic, a professor of nuclear medicine and radiology and a former science adviser to the US military, who set-up the independent UMRC, has been testing US, British, and Canadian troops and civilians for DU and uranium poisoning over the past few years. His findings confirm significant amounts in the subjects' urine as much as nine years after exposure. Two scientific study teams were sent to Afghanistan in the aftermath of the conflict in 2001-02. The first arrived in June 2002, concentrating on the Jalalabad region. The second arrived four months later, broadening the study to include the capital Kabul, which has a population of nearly 3.5 million people. The city itself contains the highest recorded number of fixed targets during Operation Enduring Freedom. For the study's purposes, the vicinity of three major bomb sites were examined. It was predicted that signatures of depleted or enriched uranium would be found in the urine and soil samples taken during the research. The team was unprepared for the shock of its findings, which indicated in both Jalalabad and Kabul, DU was possibly causing the high levels of illness but also high concentrations of non-depleted uranium. Tests taken from a number of Jalalabadd subjects showed concentrations 400% to 2000% above that for normal populations, amounts which have not been recorded in civilian studies before. Those in Kabul who were directly exposed to US-British precision bombing showed extreme signs of contamination, consistent with uranium exposure and with some types of chemical or biological weaponry. These included pains in joints, back/kidney pain, muscle weakness, memory problems and confusion and disorientation. Many of these symptoms are found in Gulf War and Balkans veterans and civilians. Those exposed to the bombing report symptoms of flu-type illnesses, bleeding, runny noses and blood-stained mucous. The study team itself complained of similar symptoms during their stay. Most of these symptoms last for days or months. The team also conducted a preliminary sample examination of new-born infants, discovering that at least 25% may be suffering from congenital and post-natal health problems that could be associated with uranium contamination. These include undeveloped muscles, large head in comparison to body size, skin rashes and infant lethargy. Considering that the children had access to sufficient levels of nutrition, the symptoms could not be due to malnourishment. Durakovic and his team have searched for possible alternative causes, such as geological or industrial sources, or the likelihood of Al Qaeda having uranium reserves. But the uranium found is not consistent with the "dirty bomb" scenario proposed by the US (in which stores of radioactive materials might explain the findings), nor is it connected to DU, or an enriched uranium-type dust that has been found in Iraq and Kosova. The only conclusion is that the allied forces are now possibly using milled uranium ore in their warheads to maximize the effectiveness and strength of their weapons, as well as to mask the uranium, hoping that it may be discounteded as part of any local natural deposits. However, marked differences between natural uranium and the uranium used in the metal fragments found in Afghanistan was uncovered with the use of an electron microscope, which revealed the presence of small ceramic particles produced by the high temperatures created on impact. This method of disguising uranium would benefit governments that are under pressure from the growing anti-DU lobby. Repeated warnings of this possible contamination was sent to both the British and Afghan governments in April by scientific researcher Dai Williams in her report, "Mystery Metal in Afghanistan". Warning were also sent to the UN Environment Program, the World Health Organization and Oxfam. All have ignored them and failed to conduct their own investigations. Iraq Present information and studies stressing the growing mortality rates amongst young children, especially the new born, indicate that malnutrition and other social causes cannot be the only attributable source of this phenomenon. This is confirmed by health specialists, international observers and a few brave officials from local hospitals who are convinced that this rise in illnesses and malformation are due to uranium/DU weapons. In October, Durakovic spoke on al Jazeera television, claiming that the amount of DU/uranium used in Afghanistan far exceeded that of past conflicts. He also warned that if the scale of the attacks in Afghanistan was matched or exceeded in a forthcoming war in Iraq, then the consequences would be of appalling proportions for both civilians and military forces alike. This scenario has substance, if the $393 billion defense authorization bill that Congress approved recently is taken into account. More than $15 million was assigned to modifying bunker busters bombs to nuclear capable, quite apart from uranium being added to conventional and bunker buster systems.s. Money was also invested in other weapons of mass destruction, including thermobaric and electromagnetic weapons. The anti-war movement must oppose radiological and other weapons, as well as research and access to the source materials. Many of us have seen the heart-wrenching pictures of deformity and death in Iraq, and know of the growing cancer wards in Bosnia and Kosova, not to mention the 80,000 American, 15,000 Canadian and thousands of British, Australian, French and other troops! who are suffering a painful existence from Gulf War Syndrome plus the growing number suffering from a Balkans equivalent. Davey Garland is a coordinator of the British-based Pandora DU Research Project. 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