Depleted uranium tests for US troops returning from Iraq
Friends!
First it should be mentioned that the three papers in England -The Independent, The Guardian and The Observer, are all three NOT reliable! Their history shows it.
All people working for United Kingdom media - like for the BBC too - are consored and muzzled when the UK (and US) military feels like it - by the now permanent 'D-Notice': http://www.serendipity.li/cda/dnot.html
They mix a lot of newspeak with some dots of truth and hope this way to create fatefull folowers. It should be repeated: they are not to be trusted and one has to read carefully between their lines.
It is wise to first have a look at what an internationally renowned US expert in the Depleted Uranium field has to say:
From: Dr. Leuren Moret
Here is a 14 minute clip from a 1 hr. program I am doing for TV.
Url.: http://www.art101.com/101temp/wethemedia
Pls. click on "Watch this now"
This is how the US has poisoned the world.
Leuren Moret
Some Google imgaes on the effect of DU - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/e2jbx
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Depleted uranium tests for US troops returning from Iraq
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
Published: 28 September 2005
US troops returning from Iraq are for the first time to be offered state-of-the-art radiation testing to check for contamination from depleted uranium - a controversial substance linked by some to cancer and birth defects.
Campaigners say the Pentagon refuses to take seriously the issue of poisoning from depleted uranium (DU) and offers only the most basic checks, and only when it is specifically asked for. But state legislators across the US are pushing ahead with laws that will provide their National Guard troops access to the most sophisticated tests.
Connecticut and Louisiana have already passed such legislation and another 18 are said to be considering similar steps. Connecticut's new law - pioneered by state legislator Pat Dillon - comes into effect on Saturday.
"What this does is establish a standard," said Mrs Dillon, a Yale-trained epidemiologist. "It means that our Guardsmen will have access to highly sensitive testing that can differentiate between background levels of radiation." DU - a heavy metal waste-product of nuclear power plants - has been used by the US military since the 1991 Gulf War. It is used to tip tank shells and missiles because of its ability to penetrate armour. On impact DU burns at an extremely high temperature and is widely dispersed in micro particles.
The science surrounding DU remains hotly contested though the majority of studies have concluded there is no genuine risk from battlefield contamination. One 2001 study by the Royal Society, concluded: "Except in extreme circumstances any extra risks of developing fatal cancers as a result of radiation from internal exposure to DU arising from battlefield conditions are likely to be so small that they would not be detectable above the general risk of dying from cancer over a normal lifetime."
But, campaigners such as the British-based Campaign Against Depleted Uranium (CADU), cite other studies which suggest a risk. In 2003,New Scientist reported that a study by the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, found that human bone cells could suffer genetic damage when exposed to DU, even at levels deemed to be non-toxic.
Gerard Matthew has no doubts about the effect of DU. The former member of the New York National Guard served in Iraq from April to September 2003. On his return he was not offered testing until a New York newspaper offered to arrange it for him and some friends. "[With the military] it never came up. They suppressed the whole DU thing," he said.
Mr Matthew, who said he was found to have considerable radiation exposure, said two years on he suffers from migraines, erectile dysfunction and a swollen face - conditions that have developed since he returned from Iraq. But his conviction about the dangers of DU was fixed when his daughter, Victoria Claudette, was born with only two digits on her right hand.
Whatever debate may be going on among scientists, Mr Matthew is convinced his daughter - conceived the month after he returned from Iraq - suffered because of his own exposure to DU.
"It's concealment," he said. "We have 18 and 19-year-old coalition forces out there fighting and they should not be exposed to this." Dr Doug Rokke, a health physicist who was part of a Pentagon team that studied DU in the mid 1990s, concluded that there was no way DU weapons could be used without the risk of contamination. He said the Pentagon responded to his conclusions by denouncing him.
He told the In These Times newspaper: "DU is a war crime. It's that simple. Once you've scattered all this stuff around and then refuse to clean it up you've committed a war crime."
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Google concerning Depleted Uranium and it's horrible effects - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/by8xq
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* *The Dutch author this far has worked abroad 4 decades for international media as a fully independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism: you harvest what you sow! - At present - like other honest journalists - 'Persona non Grata' in his native - but now neocon - country :-) - The managers of the Netherlands operate a US 'neocolony' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/a44ek
* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC video & text - interview United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v
* Never trust them, the neocon's BBC - (Broadcasting Blair's Crap) - and their warmongering:
Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6td3d
*Corporate News Media: Incompetent, Criminally Negligent or Complicit? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cqpfe
*Colin Powell: 'It is not anti-Semitic to criticize the policies of the state of Israel' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/22p6c - Who creates our money? - And what is 'Press Freedom' about? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/atxyk - 'American' neocons - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b5vsb
* Brainwashed? Take the free 'Gullibility Factor' test to find out if you're really a mind slave or not - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cbgnc
* The World Can't Wait! Drive out the Bush Regime. Mobilize for November 2, 2005! - Url.: http://www.worldcantwait.org/
*Former PM Wim Kok, and other Dutch Govt's War criminals in Court - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/662pp
*Help the troops come back from abroad! We need them badly at home in many countries, to fight our so called 'governments' - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
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First it should be mentioned that the three papers in England -The Independent, The Guardian and The Observer, are all three NOT reliable! Their history shows it.
All people working for United Kingdom media - like for the BBC too - are consored and muzzled when the UK (and US) military feels like it - by the now permanent 'D-Notice': http://www.serendipity.li/cda/dnot.html
They mix a lot of newspeak with some dots of truth and hope this way to create fatefull folowers. It should be repeated: they are not to be trusted and one has to read carefully between their lines.
It is wise to first have a look at what an internationally renowned US expert in the Depleted Uranium field has to say:
From: Dr. Leuren Moret
Here is a 14 minute clip from a 1 hr. program I am doing for TV.
Url.: http://www.art101.com/101temp/wethemedia
Pls. click on "Watch this now"
This is how the US has poisoned the world.
Leuren Moret
Some Google imgaes on the effect of DU - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/e2jbx
*****************************************************************
Depleted uranium tests for US troops returning from Iraq
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
Published: 28 September 2005
US troops returning from Iraq are for the first time to be offered state-of-the-art radiation testing to check for contamination from depleted uranium - a controversial substance linked by some to cancer and birth defects.
Campaigners say the Pentagon refuses to take seriously the issue of poisoning from depleted uranium (DU) and offers only the most basic checks, and only when it is specifically asked for. But state legislators across the US are pushing ahead with laws that will provide their National Guard troops access to the most sophisticated tests.
Connecticut and Louisiana have already passed such legislation and another 18 are said to be considering similar steps. Connecticut's new law - pioneered by state legislator Pat Dillon - comes into effect on Saturday.
"What this does is establish a standard," said Mrs Dillon, a Yale-trained epidemiologist. "It means that our Guardsmen will have access to highly sensitive testing that can differentiate between background levels of radiation." DU - a heavy metal waste-product of nuclear power plants - has been used by the US military since the 1991 Gulf War. It is used to tip tank shells and missiles because of its ability to penetrate armour. On impact DU burns at an extremely high temperature and is widely dispersed in micro particles.
The science surrounding DU remains hotly contested though the majority of studies have concluded there is no genuine risk from battlefield contamination. One 2001 study by the Royal Society, concluded: "Except in extreme circumstances any extra risks of developing fatal cancers as a result of radiation from internal exposure to DU arising from battlefield conditions are likely to be so small that they would not be detectable above the general risk of dying from cancer over a normal lifetime."
But, campaigners such as the British-based Campaign Against Depleted Uranium (CADU), cite other studies which suggest a risk. In 2003,New Scientist reported that a study by the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, found that human bone cells could suffer genetic damage when exposed to DU, even at levels deemed to be non-toxic.
Gerard Matthew has no doubts about the effect of DU. The former member of the New York National Guard served in Iraq from April to September 2003. On his return he was not offered testing until a New York newspaper offered to arrange it for him and some friends. "[With the military] it never came up. They suppressed the whole DU thing," he said.
Mr Matthew, who said he was found to have considerable radiation exposure, said two years on he suffers from migraines, erectile dysfunction and a swollen face - conditions that have developed since he returned from Iraq. But his conviction about the dangers of DU was fixed when his daughter, Victoria Claudette, was born with only two digits on her right hand.
Whatever debate may be going on among scientists, Mr Matthew is convinced his daughter - conceived the month after he returned from Iraq - suffered because of his own exposure to DU.
"It's concealment," he said. "We have 18 and 19-year-old coalition forces out there fighting and they should not be exposed to this." Dr Doug Rokke, a health physicist who was part of a Pentagon team that studied DU in the mid 1990s, concluded that there was no way DU weapons could be used without the risk of contamination. He said the Pentagon responded to his conclusions by denouncing him.
He told the In These Times newspaper: "DU is a war crime. It's that simple. Once you've scattered all this stuff around and then refuse to clean it up you've committed a war crime."
[enditem] - Url.; http://tinyurl.com/dgutm
Google concerning Depleted Uranium and it's horrible effects - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/by8xq
Fwd. by:
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/66dmo
The Netherlands
FPF@Chello.nl
* *The Dutch author this far has worked abroad 4 decades for international media as a fully independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism: you harvest what you sow! - At present - like other honest journalists - 'Persona non Grata' in his native - but now neocon - country :-) - The managers of the Netherlands operate a US 'neocolony' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/a44ek
* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC video & text - interview United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v
* Never trust them, the neocon's BBC - (Broadcasting Blair's Crap) - and their warmongering:
Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6td3d
*Corporate News Media: Incompetent, Criminally Negligent or Complicit? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cqpfe
*Colin Powell: 'It is not anti-Semitic to criticize the policies of the state of Israel' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/22p6c - Who creates our money? - And what is 'Press Freedom' about? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/atxyk - 'American' neocons - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b5vsb
* Brainwashed? Take the free 'Gullibility Factor' test to find out if you're really a mind slave or not - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cbgnc
* The World Can't Wait! Drive out the Bush Regime. Mobilize for November 2, 2005! - Url.: http://www.worldcantwait.org/
*Former PM Wim Kok, and other Dutch Govt's War criminals in Court - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/662pp
*Help the troops come back from abroad! We need them badly at home in many countries, to fight our so called 'governments' - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.: http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/17/107.html
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