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Wake up America !!! DEPLETED URANIUM: THE CHILD KILLER
Depleted
Uranium is used in shells for its armor penetration and
destructive power. When a round of Depleted
Uranium hits a target up to 70% of the round can burn up
during impact and penetration. This creates a
firestorm of Depleted Uranium oxide particles of
extremely fine ceramic uranium dust (some finer than
military gas mask filters) that is spread by the wind,
inhaled and absorbed into the human and animal bodies
and is taken up by plants and animals, becoming part of
the food chain. According to the United Nations
Environmental Program any portion of the round leftover
in the soil can can pollute the environment and create
up to a hundredfold increase in uranium levels in ground
water. The Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
reported, Children playing with soil may be identified
as the critical population group, with inhalation and/or
ingestion of contaminated soil as the critical pathway.
In May-June 2003 issue of E: The Environmental Magazine
Ed Ericson wrote "the Pentagon has cashiered or
attempted to discredit its own experts, ignored their
advice, impeached scientific research into DUs health
effects and assembled a disinformation campaign to
confuse the isssue. Soldiers in the US and Brittan
who handle Depleted Uranium ammunition are required by
military regulations to wear gloves and masks. DU
is certainly a weapon of mass destruction (WMD).
Some 300 tons of Depleted Uranium were used by coalition
forces in southern Iraq in 1991. Ten years ater the war,
DU shell holes are still 1,000 times more radioactive
than the normal level of background radiation and
the areas around the shell holes are still 100
times more radioactive. Experts say that the fine
uranium dust produced by the shells has spread by the
wind, contaminating large areas of the surrounding
region, including the city of Basra, which is 200
kilometres away from sites where large numbers of DU
shells were fired.
Between 1,000 and 3,000 tons of Depleted Uranium
was used during the three-week war in Iraq in 2003 with
a considerable part of it used in the cities.
There was wholesale bombardment of targets inside
densely-populated areas. Journalist Scott Peterson from
the Christian Science Monitor used a simple Geiger
counter to measure levels that at times reached 1,900
times the normal background rate in parts of Baghdad in
May 2003. The city has a population of six million.
It took 2 to 4 years for the rise in cancers in Iraq to
become evident after Gulf War 1. By the end of the
decade there will be an explosion of cancers in the
Iraqi population with children, who play in the dirt,
making up a significant number of those to die of
cancer.
One in four of the American personnel who fought in Gulf
War 1, more than 150,000 soldiers, are suffering a range
of medical disorders including lymphomas, leukemia, and
lung, brain, gastrointestinal, bone and liver
cancers collectively described as "Gulf War Syndrome".
We have killed more of our own people than they have.
These numbers will be repeated among those returning
home from the current Iraqi war.
Terry Jemison
of the Department of Veterans Affairs told AFP that
current statistics indicate that more than half a million
veterans of the 14-year-old Gulf War I era are now
receiving disability compensation. During this period,
some 7,035 soldiers are reported having been wounded in
Iraq.
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