[ RadSafe ] Findings of enriched U in Fallujah and elsewhere
Steven Dapra
sjd at swcp.com
Tue Oct 18 19:42:39 CDT 2011
Oct. 18
This link is to the "Independent" article by Robert
Fisk. Article is dated Oct. 28, 2006.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-mystery-of-israels-secret-uranium-bomb-421960.html
Fisk's article is based largely on a "report" by Busby.
Fisk claims that five years after the US attack on Iraq in
1991 a "plague of cancers emerged across the south of Iraq." A five
year latency period for cancer?
Steven Dapra
At 09:25 AM 10/18/2011, you wrote:
><<[as well as Fallujah]...Enriched Uranium signatures have also
>turned up in other recent battlefields, notably in the Lebanon,
>where soil from a missile crater in Khiam and also dust from an
>ambulance air filter both showed the presence of Enriched Uranium in
>2006, a finding reported in The Independent by Robert Fisk. The
>authors are unable to explain why these weapons contain or produce
>slightly enriched Uranium and call for the military to now reveal
>the truth about the weapons systems being employed in modern battlefields. >>
>
>It is not clear from Prof Busby's post where these mass
>spectrometric measurements were done. What I do think is that that
>the laboratory has an uncorrected measurement bias. Try running a
>soil or grass sample from Green Audit's back garden in the same lab,
>you may scare yourself. To extrapolate an uncorrected measurement
>bias to conclude the existence and widespread use of enriched
>uranium weaponry is rather silly.
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