[ RadSafe ] Al Jazeera English - Cancer in Southern Iraq and Depleted Uranium

Mon Oct 19 08:00:04 CDT 2009

Edmund Burke wrote "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else 
they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible 
struggle." (Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents, 1770)

Too frequently paraphrased as "All that is necessary for the triumph of 
evil is that good men do nothing."

Roger Helbig is a good man and a correspondent of many years.

Perle, Sandy wrote:
> Roger,
> 
> Good point, and I agree. Whenever I have a management meeting, one of the rules stated upfront is that "Silence is Consensus". When I used to post my news items (haven't had time and it's been a long time), one of the points I made when a news wire service published some ridiculous article, that I posted the item in order to make others aware of what is out there, and that those interested, should speak out to correct the insinuations.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sandy
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf Of Roger Helbig
> Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 3:30 PM
> To: 'Franz Schönhofer'; radsafe at radlab.nl
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Al Jazeera English - Cancer in Southern Iraq andDepleted Uranium
> 
> Franz,
> 
> Thank you, Franz.  I agree with you, except that this is what our kids are
> eating up.  Most of them know absolutely nothing on the subject beyond what
> YouTube feeds them and this is getting wide YouTube airing.  Al Jazeera
> English also poses itself as being a genuine news channel, not a propaganda
> feed, so I would think that if they are told that they have been used for
> that purpose that they will make amends.  The cancer and birth defect claims
> originated in Iraq under Saddam Hussein's propaganda machine; they have been
> continually repeated by the US/European/Japanese peace/anti-nuclear
> activists and they are widely available on the internet.  If these claims
> are not opposed, they become fact in the eyes of those who make them and
> those who they influence, including various legislative bodies around the
> world.
> 
> Roger Helbig
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Franz Schönhofer [mailto:franz.schoenhofer at chello.at]
> Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 8:12 AM
> To: 'Roger Helbig'; radsafe at radlab.nl
> Subject: [SPAM]AW: [ RadSafe ] Al Jazeera English - Cancer in Southern Iraq
> andDepleted Uranium
> 
> Roger, Ahmad, Steven and Marshall,
> 
> Dear all (RADSAFErs),
> 
> Roger, I will sure not join you in "complaining", because if I would do this
> for everything ridiculous and silly messages in Austrian press and TV I
> would have to work 49 hours a day. Sdo, how many hours do you think it would
> take to comment and protest all the nonsense which is presented all over the
> world? We all at RADSAFE should know, what to think of newspaper and other
> massmedia news and it seems that the consumers of these news know it as
> well.
> 
> One should not forget that all these horror stories of cancer incidence
> rising in Iraq, Kuwait, former Yugoslavia were raised by outspoken
> anti-nuclear groups from "the West"! There is enough research not only in
> Europe regarding "former Yugoslavia", and international organisations in the
> near east to clearly denounce the news on those cancer incidences as
> blantant propaganda.
> 
> I fully understand Ahmads reasoning. Where are the hard facts? That uranium
> as an element is chemotoxic and much less radiotoxic I had thought was
> evident within the RADSAFE community. I cannot find any difference between
> DU and Unat, except that Unat is slightly more radiotoxic. This fact is
> expressed clearly in the WHO recommendations for drinking water. One can
> always construct pathways from simple accidents to the doom of the universe.
> 
> To blame a muslim TV-station for falsifying data and conclusions is in my
> opinion (not being a muslim) totally incorrect, because in our western
> countries the same falsifications and deliberate incorrect information is a
> standard situation. You are welcome to disagree.
> 
> Franz
> 
> Franz Schoenhofer, PhD
> MinRat i.R.
> Habicherg. 31/7
> A-1160 Wien/Vienna
> AUSTRIA
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im Auftrag
> von Roger Helbig
> Gesendet: Samstag, 17. Oktober 2009 13:36
> An: radsafe at radlab.nl
> Betreff: [ RadSafe ] Al Jazeera English - Cancer in Southern Iraq
> andDepleted Uranium
> 
> Please, join me in complaining to Al Jazeera for the extremely poor quality
> of their reporting in this now widely circulating piece.
> Press.int at aljazeera.net
> 
> http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/10/20091012122745236765.ht
> ml
> 
> Doctors in Iraq are recording a sharp rise in the number of cancer victims
> south of Baghdad. Sufferers in the province of Babil have risen almost
> tenfold in just three years.
> 
> Locals blame depleted uranium from US military equipment used in the 2003
> invasion. Some 500 cases of cancer were diagnosed in 2004 alone. That figure
> rose to almost 1,000 two years later.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> In 2008, the number of cases increased sevenfold to 7,000 diagnoses. This
> year, there have so far been more than 9,000 new cases, and the number is
> rising.
> 
> Mosab Jasim reports that Iraqi researchers believe radiation is responsible
> for the increase in cancer and birth defects in the country, but he says the
> US and British militaries have sent mixed signals about the effects of
> depleted uranium.
> 
> However, Christopher Busby, a British scientist and activist who has carried
> out research into the risks of radioactive pollution, said there is proof of
> a definitive link between cancer and depleted uranium.
> 
> "I made this link to a coroner's inquest in the West Midlands into the death
> of a Gulf War One veteran ... and a coroner's jury accepted my evidence," he
> told Al Jazeera.
> 
> "It's been found by a coroner's court that cancer was caused by an exposure
> to depleted uranium.
> 
> "In the last ten years, research has emerged that has made it quite clear
> that uranium is one of the most dangerous substances known to man, certainly
> in the form that it takes when used in these wars.
> 
> Includes interview: Abdulhaq Al-Ani, author of Uranium in Iraq.
> 
> 
> 
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