DU is Genocide

INN World Report

Dr. Doug Rokke, PhD., former Director of the
U.S. Army Depleted Uranium Project, talks
about depleted uranium used in Lebanon."

Sickened Iraq vets cite depleted uranium

Sickened Iraq vets cite depleted uranium
Herbert Reed, 52, a veteran of Iraq, sits at
the kitchen table of his home with the
medicines and medical records that he keeps
with him Wednesday, May 17, 2006, in
Columbia, S.C. Reed was exposed to
radioactive depleted uranium while serving a
few months with the 442nd Military Police out
of New York. Herbert Reed, 52, a veteran of
Iraq, sits at the kitchen table of his home
with the medicines and medical records that
he keeps with him Wednesday, May 17, 2006, in
Columbia, S.C. Reed was exposed to
radioactive depleted uranium while serving a
few months with the 442nd Military Police out
of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)

At Hunters Point Shipyard, cyclotron
smashed atoms where Lennar wants to build
homes

by Dennis Kyne

NOTICE THE SHADOWS

a photo presentation of America's
use of nuclear weapons By SGT Dennis Joseph Kyne, Jr.

Depleted Uranium - Far Worse Than 9/11

Depleted Uranium Dust - Public Health
Disaster For The People Of Iraq and
Afghanistan

The Real WMD's in Iraq - Ours

In Afghanistan, unlike Iraq, UMRC lab results
indicated high concentrations of NON-DEPLETED
URANIUM, with the concentrations being much
higher than in DU victims from Iraq.

Afghanistan was evidently used as a testing
ground for a new generation of "bunker
buster" bombs containing high concentrations
of other uranium alloys.
"It’s a pyroforic metal which means it
burns. The bullets and big caliber shells are
actually on fire when they come out of the
gun barrel because they are ignited by the
friction in the gun barrel. Seventy percent
of the DU metal becomes a metal vapor. It’s
actually a radioactive gas weapon and a
terrain contaminant.

I’ll email you the URL of the 1943 memo
to General Leslie Grove under the Manhattan
Project. It’s the blueprint for depleted
uranium. They dropped the atomic bombs, but
they did not use the DU weapons because they
thought they were too horrific."

Heads roll at Veterans Administration

Radioactive Wounds of War
Tests on returning troops suggest serious
health consequences of depleted uranium use
in Iraq -August 25, 2005
Depleted Uranium is WMD
by Leuren Moret
August 9, 2005
Heads Roll At The Veterans Administration:
Mushrooming Depleted Uranium (DU) Scandal
Blamed -Jan 28, 2005
Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty
missiles, dirty bullets
A death sentence here and abroad
by Leuren Moret
VA denies benefits to victim
of atomic test debris
1983
The world's most accurate test for depleted
uranium exposure is now available - but only
in Britain and Germany. The Pentagon says
U.S. vets don't need it. -December 15, 2004
Uranium Weapons Cover-ups in Our Midst
Extreme Deformities
The fact is that the United States and its
military partners have staged four nuclear
wars, "slipping nukes under the wire" by
using dirty bombs and dirty weapons in
countries the US needs to control. Depleted
uranium aerosols will permanently contaminate
vast regions and slowly destroy the genetic
future of populations living in those
regions, where there are resources which the
US must control, in order to establish and
maintain American primacy.
Munition exposure linked to brain cancer in US vets

Gulf War veterans exposed to chemical
munitions at Khamisiyah, Iraq are nearly
twice as likely as their unexposed peers from
the same war to die from brain cancer,
according to a report in the American Journal
of Public Health. -Jul 25, 2005
Depleted, it ain't!
The so-called "depleted uranium" is 88
percent as radioactive as the original
uranium. There is a huge amount, about 1.5
billion pounds, of "depleted uranium" at
H-bomb factories in the US.
US media censor uranium weapons stories
Soaring birth deformities and child cancer
rates in Iraq --10 May 2005
Natural uranium ore from the mine goes
through an enrichment process designed to
separate uranium 235 (U-235), the isotope
used for nuclear weapons and nuclear
reactors, from uranium 238 (U-238), a
low-level radioactive by-product. The highly
radioactive isotope U-235 accounts for less
than 1% of mined uranium; nearly all the rest
is U-238.
Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs,
dirty missiles, dirty bullets
A death sentence here and abroad
by Leuren Moret
CommandPost.com suggests DU
welcome in own back yard:
Exposing The Depleted Uranium Myths
April 01, 2003
Tumbleweeds Absorb Depleted Uranium from Arid Soil
Tumbleweeds, known also as Russian thistle,
and some other weeds common to dry Western
lands can absorb depleted uranium from
contaminated soils at weapons testing grounds
and battlefields. November 8, 2004
"Many of the vegetables in Iraq now have
been poisoned by Depleted Uranium
[DU]. “We can’t take any vegetables from
the south now; the DU makes them all lose
their ripeness and become poisonous for
us.”"
...

"It must be noted that the Bremer Orders are
illegal under international law, because they
violate the Hague regulations of 1907, which
illegalize the transformation of an occupied
country’s laws."
...

"Once lodged in the soil, the munitions can
pollute the environment and create up to a
hundredfold increase in uranium levels in
ground water, according to the
U.N. Environmental Program..... Dr. Doug
Rokke...said: 'Verified adverse health
effects from personal experience, physicians
and from personal reports from individuals
with known DU exposures include reactive
airway disease, neurological abnormalities,
kidney stones and chronic kidney pain,
rashes, vision degradation and night vision
losses, lymphoma, various forms of skin and
organ cancer, neuropsychological disorders,
uranium in semen, sexual dysfunction and
birth defects in offspring....'"
The U.S. Armed Forces Radiobiology Research
Institute has found that DU produces
literally one million times as much
chromosome damage as would be predicted from
its radioactivity alone (J Inorg
Biochem. 2002 Jul 25; 91(1): 246-52), and
that it causes a form of "delayed
reproductive death," which doesn't cease like
exposure to simple radioactivity does (J
Environ Radioact. 2003; 64(2-3): 247-59.)
The war's littlest victim
He was exposed to depleted uranium.
His daughter may be paying the price.
DU Syndrome Stricken Vets Denied Care
Cancer Epidemic Caused by U.S. WMD
M.D. Says Depleted Uranium Definitively Linked
Pictures That Bush Does
Not Want You To See
There Are No Words ...
Radiation in Iraq Equals
250,000 Nagasaki Bombs
Depleted Uranium Keeps On Killing
Munitions that contain low-grade uranium 235
– insufficient to trigger nuclear
explosion – are chemical-radiological
weapons. They contain other toxic-radioactive
elements and have indiscriminate
effects. They are illegal by virtue of
international conventions, laws and customs
of war.
Army ignored uranium poisoning complaints
In May, 2003, the United States dumped 2,200
tons of depleted uranium on Iraq, according
to reliable sources, and it's logical to
assume that more depleted uranium is being
employed in the current attacks on Faluja
that began April 8 to put down Iraqi
resistance to the American presence there.
"Sixty-seven percent of babies born to the
400,000 vets who suffer from Gulf War
Syndrome have birth defects,"

DU has a half-life of 4.5 billion years

Federation of American Scientists
WHO suppressed scientific study into depleted
uranium cancer fears in Iraq.
FOIA Document shows Navy has been aware
problems associated with DU since 14 May 1984
When this war ends, George Bush will have
caused the poisoning of hundreds of thousands
more humans than he said Saddam Hussein
poisoned.
The origin of depleted uranium (DU) weapon
technology goes back to the middle of the
1960s. Instead of tungsten, the United States
Army began to apply DU in the core of
antitank shells. Later, DU also became part
of the interior of tank armor to prevent
hostile attack by munitions. Supervised by
the US Army, the first DU antitank shells
were tested during the Yom Kippur War (1974)
by the Israeli Army.

Afghan DU Fund
Thus, birth defects are way up in Afghanistan
since the invasion: children "born with no
eyes, no limbs, tumors protruding from their
mouths ...deformed genitalia," according to
the tribunal report.
The public first became aware the US military
was using DU weapons during the Persian Gulf
War in 1991. But it had been used as far back
as the 1973 Yom Kippur war in Israel.
"The depleted uranium rounds, which were used
with great success by British armored units
in both Iraq wars and in the Kosovo campaign,
are expected to be removed from service
within six years and replaced with a new type
of tank shell, which uses a different
warhead."

Great. Then we can simply wait 4.5 billion
years for the half-life. But what of the
tanks containing DU?

That nearly one-third of the American tanks
used in Desert Storm were made of uranium 238
is another story, for their crews were
exposed to whole body gamma radiation.
By mid-April last year, the US air force had
deployed more than 19,000 guided weapons and
311,000 rounds of uranium A10 shells.
US ARMY TRAINING VIDEO:
Depleted Uranium Hazard Awareness

The War Against Ourselves

An Interview with Major Doug Rokke
BURNING 'DEPLETED' URANIUM:
AN ETERNAL MEDICAL DISASTER
Issues on the Use and Effects
of Depleted Uranium Weapons

Civilians face health
risk after latest use of
depleted uranium

April 18 2003
Hundreds of tonnes of depleted
uranium used by Britain and the
United States in Iraq should be
removed to protect the civilian
population, said the Royal
Society, Britain's premier
scientific institution,
contradicting Pentagon claims
it is not necessary.

Depleted Uranium
and Anglo-American
Infanticide in the Wake
of the Gulf War

Extremely disturbing photos

Gulf troops face tests for cancer

Paul Brown, environment correspondent
Friday April 25, 2003
The Guardian

The Depleted
Uranium Cover-up

By Michelle Mairesse

DEPLETED URANIUM
EDUCATION PROJECT

updated: 23 March, 2003

What is DU?

DU Library

BBC In Depth:
Depleted Uranium

Gulf War Syndrome II

By Steve Rosenfield
TomPaine.com
April 9, 2003

Depleted uranium:
war hazard?

Travis Dunn
Baltimore
December 28, 2002
They deliberately blew up tanks
with DU rounds, then ran over and
jumped on the tanks while they were
still burning. They videotaped the
uranium-oxide clouds pouring out,
and they measured the radiation
being thrown off.

In the past decade, Rokke said 30 men
out of 100 who were closely involved in
these operations dropped dead.

DU is Genocide

A total of 320 tons of DU munitions were fired during the Gulf
War. Rokke's job was to figure out how to clean up US tanks, the
unfortunate victims of "friendly fire," which had been blown apart by
DU rounds.

After years of this kind of this work in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and
on practice ranges in the US Rokke reached a conclusion in 1996.

He told the Army brass that DU was so dangerous that it had to be
banned from combat immediately.

That conclusion, Rokke said, cost him his career.



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