[ RadSafe ] Re: [Global_Police_State] Use of Uranium Weapons Never Were Used in Lebanon

[Roger Helbig]

Romi Elnagar continues to beat a dead horse to death -- there were no "uranium weapons" used in Lebanon - her activist friends claim that there were, but the weapons they claim were used don't exist and her message is designed to poison as many minds as possible.  Elnagar is virulently anti-Israeli and virulently anti-American - truth and accuracy, things that you would expect out of a retired librarian - retired librarians run Snopes as well, are completely foreign to Enlarger.  She wallpapers the net with every single article that she can find about depleted uranium which she terms "uranium weapons" whether or not there is a shred of believability to what she is saying.  Unfortunately, it is pretty much impossible to keep up with her misinformation campaign, but it is intended to be deadly, deadly to Americans and deadly to Israel.  Here is what others say about "uranium in Lebanon" --

Roger Helbig

To: du-watch at yahoogroups.com 
From: "Henk van der Keur" <henk.vdkeur at antenna.nl> (an anti-uranium/nuclear power activist himself, now viewed as a "traitor to their cause" by the likes of Elnagar .. who does not have any scientific credentials and does not do any research beyond finding articles and reposting them to her AmericanDUST and dozens of other groups)
  Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:50:36 -0000 
Subject: [DU-WATCH] Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions used in Lebanon? 

Amsterdam, 8th October, 2006

Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions used in Lebanon?

During and after the 33-days war in Lebanon the story was rumored
that the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) should have used DU antitank
shells or other types of munitions made from DU. The attention was
especially focussed on the article "Scientists suspect Israeli arms
used in South contain radioactive matter" by Mohammed Zaatari in the
Daily Star (August 21, 2006) in which nuclear physicist Dr. Ali
Kobeissi, a member of the Lebanese National Council for Scientific
Research said that a crater caused by an Israeli munition in Khiam
contained "a high degree of unidentified radioactive materials." Many
people within the movement against uranium weapons considered
Kobeissi's statements as a "piece of evidence" for the alleged use of
DU by the IDF.  

In order to verify or to falsify the assertions that DU has been used
I brought a visit to Lebanon as part of a delegation from the
Amsterdam based organisation Dromen, Denk, Durven, Doen (Dreaming,
Thinking, to Dare, to Do), among others working on human rights issues
and questions on the Middle East.

On September 25 I visited Dr. Kobeissi in Nabatiyeh. He told that he
tested some deep pits made by Israeli weapons with a Geiger counter
from a local scrap dealer and that his results indicated the presence
of uranium. He stressed that he has never said `depleted uranium' and
regretted the political bickerings between different sects. He
measured 50 nanosievert (nSv) per hour in the outside rim of the pits
and 300 nSv in the heart of most pits with the exception of one which
measured 800 nsV/h. He also declared that these dose rates in the pits
decreased considerably day by day. On my suggestion that these higher
measures could be due to the concentration of uranium in the ash
(`concentrated background radiation from the burnt material') he
agreed that this possibility is highly likely.

At his home Kobeissi had collected tens of samples from shrapnel and
soil from more than 50 different places. None of these samples
measured a higher radiation dose rate than the background radiation
dose rate. The samples were measured with a calibrated Geiger counter
from Laka Foundation.

Finally there is no reason to assume that the IDF has used DU antitank
shells. Firstly there were no armored targets in Lebanon and secondly
the Mine clearance teams - present on many places in the south of
Lebanon, especially because of the enormous abundance of cluster bombs
- haven't found no spent DU antitank shells.

According to Peter Boeckhart, who is in charge for making reports in
post-conflict areas for Human Rights Watch, only a few bunker busters
have been used in Lebanon (on bridges), but he couldn't tell me where.
No chance that these munitions were equipped with a load of DU. Instead
of  bunker buster types of munitions Boeckhart said that the use of
serial bombing was much more seen. A mosque in Beirut was bombed with
a load of more than 20 tons by serial bombing.

In short, there is no reason to believe that DU weaponry has been used
by Israel. 

Henk van der Keur
Laka Foundation
www.laka.org

Statement attributable to Achim Steiner,

http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=485&ArticleID=5416&l=en

United Nations Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director

NAIROBI, 7 November, 2006 - The fieldwork of the post conflict environmental 
assessment of Lebanon has been completed by a team from the United Nations 
Environment Programme (UNEP), which carried out its work in Lebanon from 30 
September to 21 October 2006.

The experts covered the following disciplines; Asbestos; Contaminated land; 
Coastal and marine issues; Solid and hazardous waste management; Surface and 
ground water; Weapons and munitions. From these respective disciplines a 
wide range of samples were transported to three independent and recognized 
laboratories in Europe for tests.

During the fieldwork one of the UNEP sub-teams focused on munitions used 
during the July-August 2005 conflict, and investigated specifically the use 
or non-use of depleted uranium (DU) and unconventional weapons. The weapons 
sub-team visited 32 sites south and north of the Litani River. Following 
strict field procedures a range of smear, dust and soil samples were taken. 
The samples were analyzed in October-November at an internationally 
recognised laboratory in Switzerland.

The samples taken by the UNEP scientists show no evidence of penetrators or 
metal made of DU or other radioactive material. In addition, no DU shrapnel, 
or other radioactive residue was found. The analysis of all smear samples 
taken shows no DU, nor enriched uranium nor higher than natural uranium 
content in the samples.

During the fieldwork, the UNEP sub-team also found that all remnants of 
weapons found at sites visited during the period of the assessment could be 
identified as being weapons of well-known design. The team also confirmed 
the use of white phosphorous-containing artillery and mortar ammunition by 
the Israeli Defense Force (IDF).

In the context of weapons used, UNEP agrees with the findings and 
conclusions of the mission of the Human Rights Council's Special Rapporteurs 
(published 2 October 2006), which recognized the huge number of cluster 
bombs with a low detonation rate dropped by the IDF over the last days 
before the ceasefire as the main remaining problem to return to normal life 
in the affected regions.

The final UNEP Post Conflict Assessment-report on Lebanon will be ready for 
publication in mid-December 2006. It is hoped that the report will make a 
positive contribution to on-going international and domestic efforts of 
reconstruction and rehabilitation in the Lebanon.

Contact: Nick Nuttall, UNEP Spokesperson, Office of the Executive Director, 
Tel: (254-20) 762-3084, Mobile in Kenya: 254 (0) 733 632755, E-mail: 
nick.nuttall at unep.org

Here is where you can read about what a real "bunker buster" weapon is made of -- there is no DU in it

 http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/gbu-28.htm 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Romi Elnagar" <bluesapphire48 at yahoo.com>
To: "Romi Elnagar" <bluesapphire48 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 11:41 PM
Subject: [Global_Police_State] Use of Uranium Weapons in Lebanon



  http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/campanas/stopwar/uranium_weapons/index.html
    archives of global protests
  Digest: Use of Uranium Weapons in Lebanon  
  The use of radioactive weapons is in any cases one of the most suppressed fact since its first use in the 1st Gulf war. Since then they where frequently used in Iraq, in Kosovo and in Aghanistan. And recently, obviously during the Israel attack on Lebanon.
  Depleted Uranium (DU) is a "Waste" of Nuclear Plants. It is still higly radioactive and toxic. It is devastating to hature and health for generations and the damage is irreversible. It is destroying human cells and DNA and causes deathly cancer (the so called "Gulf War syndrom") and other irreversible diseases. Especially children and unborn life are highly affected. Also Soldiers who got in contact with DU are affected. Many Gulf war veterans are already dead. And their children die as well.
  It is contradictionary to the Geneva Convention cause it causes irreversible and uncontrolable damage.
  But it is the "silver bullet" for militaries, cause it goes through steel and bunkers like through butter.
  below you'll a few links to articles concerning the use of DU during the Lebanon war.
    
   Depleted Uranium Weapons Used in Lebanon (September 06) 
 www.sjvgreens.org/current/duLebanon.shtml   
   UN priorities for investigating uranium and other suspected illegal weapons in the Israel/Lebanon conflict. - by Dai Williams - 2006-09-01 
 www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20060901&articleId=3123   
   A Citizen Of Mosul: Depleted Uranium, again but now in Lebanon (July 06) 
 moslawi.blogspot.com/2006/07/depleted-uranium-again-but-now-in.html   
   Unknown News: Facing ugly facts about AmerIsrael (July 06) 
 www.unknownnews.org/060731a-MrChuckles.html   
   The Cedars of Lebanon Weep: Depleted Uranium and the Lebanon War 
 thecedarsoflebanonweep.com/   
   Depleted Uranium Situation Worsens Requiring Immediate Action By Bush, Blair, Ol (July 06) 
 www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/08/346886.html   
   Lebanon faces deadly legacies of war (September 06) 
 www.cieh.org/ehn/news_focus/2006/september/articles/lebanon_faces_deadly_legacies_of_war.htm   
   Israelis Rain Down Deadly DU On Lebanese Civilians (July 06) 
 www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/july2006/290706deadlydu.htm   
   Action item: DU use in Lebanon 
 peacehousetulsa.blogspot.com/2006/07/action-item-du-use-in-lebanon.html   
   Depleted Uranium Situation Worsens Requires Action (July 06) 
 www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00452.htm   
   APPENDIX TO ILLEGAL WEAPONS IN LEBANON (August 06) 
 indexresearch.blogspot.com/2006/08/appendix-to-illegal-weapons-in-lebanon.html   
   My Lebanon is being burned to ashes (August 06) 
 www.independence05.com/blog/2006/08/illegal-use-of-depleted-uranium-by.html   
   WEAPONS USED, TARGETS HIT, BOMBING INTENSITY IN LEBANON-BY THE ISRAELI MILITARY (August 06) 
 melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/08/120565.php   
   Besieged in Lebanon UPDATE: URANIUM DEPLETED INFO (September 09) 
 besiegedinlebanonupdate.blogspot.com/2006/09/uranium-depleted-info.html   
   Israel bezieht Uranbomben aus den U.S.A f? Libanon (July 06) 
 erhard-arendt.de/deutsch/palestina/Stimmen_international/israel_uranbomben_aus_usa_.htm   
   Depleted Uranium in Lebanon (July 06) 
 www.green-rainbow.org/pipermail/jpgreens-discuss/2006-July/001385.html   
   Highlights of the Noon Briefing (August 06) 
 www.un.org/News/ossg/hilites/hilites_arch_view.asp?HighID=637   
   Depleted Uranium shells fired at Lebanese 'targets' (August 06) 
 www.dissidentvox.com/blog/_archives/2006/8/6/2202675.html   
   DEMOLISHING LEBANON - PART 2 (July 06) 
 www.medialens.org/alerts/06/060726_demolishing_lebanon.php   
   War crimes and Lebanon - Hiroshima Depleted Uranium (August 06) 
 melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/08/118647.php 
  
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