[ RadSafe ] Findings of enriched U in Fallujah and elsewhere

Mon Oct 24 05:31:30 CDT 2011

because it establishes that US knowingly uses mutagenic chemical agents like
"enriched uranium" - did you ever read the paper that Busby wrote when he
convinced coroner's inquest jury to blame death of former soldier from colon
cancer on DU he was contaminated with by washing British tanks after the
Gulf War - Busby brags about it - this guy may be old but he is still a
major problem and I want to cut him down to the quick by stripping him of
his academic cover.  He gets people to consult him because he is a Professor
at least in name - I doubt he has ever taught a class or had PhD students do
research under his tutelage.

Roger

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 2:16 PM, ROY HERREN <royherren2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The reference to "The devastating reproductive health effects of dioxins
> (the
> major contaminant of Agent Orange) on the Vietnamese people is well known",
> is
> at once intriguing and confusing.  Agent Orange was used as a defoliant in
> Vietnam.  Clearly the US did not use Agent Orange in Iraq, or even need a
> defoliant in the predominantly desert nations of Iraq.  This is not to say
> that
> there aren't plenty of local Iraq domestic source of dioxins.  Open burning
> of
> plastic, see  http://www.dioxinfacts.org/sources_trends/trash_burning.html,
> in
> trash pits and barrels has long been known to be a source of dioxins.
> Given
> that the US didn't use dioxins in Iraq, and that the local Iraqis' generate
> dioxins domestically I don't understand why Agent Orange was mentioned
> without
> exploring the domestic cause and effects of of dioxins.
>
> Roy Herren
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Roger Helbig <rwhelbig at gmail.com>
> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
> <radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>
> Sent: Fri, October 21, 2011 6:37:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Findings of enriched U in Fallujah and elsewhere
>
> Given the premise of the authors Busby and his Brussels Tribunal
> collaborator Malik Hamdan that something terrible has happened in
> Fallujah and it had to be due to US use of some horror weapon, the
> paper should never have been published let alone read by anyone.  I
> wonder how many on-line for profit journals that Busby had to shop
> this to.  I know that his first choice rejected it after I questioned
> the peer review of Busby associate Paola Manduca (another Brusssels
> Tribunal member with a professorship of some kind that looks like it
> was somewhat related) and Mozghan Savabiesafahani, who pretended to
> still be associated with the University of Michigan five years after
> that association had ended.  That paper also claimed that depleted
> uranium was the cause despite the fact that DU never was used in
> Fallujah.
>
> Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2011, 8, 89-96;
> doi:10.3390/ijerph8010089
> International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ISSN
> 1660-4601 www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph
>
> Case Report
>
> Four Polygamous Families with Congenital Birth Defects from Fallujah, Iraq
> Samira Alaani 1, Mozhgan Savabieasfahani 2, Mohammad Tafash 1,3 and
> Paola Manduca 4,*
> 1 Fallujah General Hospital, Althubbadh District, Fallujah, 00964,
> Iraq; E-Mails: samiraalaani at hotmail.com (S.A.); m_tafash at yahoo.com
> (M.T.)
> 2 P.O. Box 7038; Ann Arbor, MI 48107, USA; E-Mail: bahar at umich.edu
> (that e-mail no longer exists since she has not been associated with
> university for five years and she was misusing the claimed connection
> - just like Busby was using his no longer existing Honorary Fellowship
> with the University of Liverpool years after it had ended)
> 3 Medical College, Al-Anbar University, Fallujah, 00964, Iraq
> 4 Laboratory of Genetics, DIBIO, University of Genoa, Genoa 16132, Italy
> * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail:
> paolamanduca at gmail.com; Tel.: +39-10-2470145/+39-10-3538240/
> +39-3472540531.
> Received: 27 October 2010; in revised form: 3 December 2010 /
> Accepted: 21 December 2010 / Published: 31 December 2010
> Abstract: Since 2003, congenital malformations have increased to
> account for 15% of all births in Fallujah, Iraq. Congenital heart
> defects have the highest incidence, followed by neural tube defects.
> Similar birth defects were reported in other populations exposed to
> war contaminants. While the causes of increased prevalence of birth
> defects are under investigation, we opted to release this
> communication to contribute to exploration of these issues. By using a
> questionnaire, containing residential history and activities that may
> have led to exposure to war contaminants, retrospective reproductive
> history of four polygamous Fallujah families were documented. Our
> findings point to sporadic, untargeted events, with different
> phenotypes in each family and increased recurrence. The prevalence of
> familial birth defects after 2003 highlights the relevance of
> epigenetic mechanisms and offers insights to focus research, with the
> aim of reducing further damage to people's health.
>
> Keywords: Iraq; birth defects; war contaminants; epigenetics
> OPEN ACCESS
>
> Many known war contaminants have the potential to interfere with
> normal embryonic and fetal
> development. The devastating reproductive health effects of dioxins
> (the major contaminant of Agent Orange) on the Vietnamese people is
> well known. Data is also accumulating on increased rates of
> reproductive diseases in veterans of U.S. and U.K. wars during the
> last 20 years. As environmental effectors, metals are potential good
> candidates to cause birth defects. Metals are also integral to modern
> --augmented and --targeted weapons [3]. Metals, which are toxicants at
> relatively low concentrations, are highly persistent in the
> environment and in the body of exposed individuals, where they
> accumulate. Metals can disrupt events associated with embryo/fetal
> development and can act synergistically with other metals and/or with
> other environmental toxicants to induce phenotypic changes at the
> level of the cell, and to disrupt tissue homeostasis [4]. Many metals
> are weak mutagens but strong carcinogens, which implies that metals
> act more commonly at the epigenetic level leading to changes that are
> inherited by the progeny of cells
>
> and later
>
> Teratogens in the postwar environment include metals and metal alloys
> which persist in the environment and in the body, and are potential
> risks to health (genotoxic, fetotoxic and epigenetic mechanisms of
> action). Metals are involved in regulating genome stability, in X
> chromosome inactivation, in gene imprinting, and in reprogramming gene
> expression. They act as metalloestrogens, inhibit DNA repair, alter
> DNA methylation, change transcriptome and microRNAs production,
> histone acetylation and methylation; all of which can lead to birth
> defects, whether translated into mutations or not [4]. As a
> consequence of internal radiation, some metals can induce sporadic
> gene mutations or oxidative DNA damage. In the case of depleted
> uranium (DU) it is unclear whether its radiation-derived mutational
> effects or its chemical toxic effects are more relevant. DU can induce
> epigenetic changes that are associated with leukemia via
> hypomethylation of the DNA.
>
> No other cause is suggested, just DU - despite its not being there.
> It is a given, right, in the Busby accolyte community that if there
> are US forces somewhere that DU is there too and if DU is not present,
> then it has to be the new more nefarious secret enriched uranium
> weapons.
>
> Hindin's Busby peer-reviewed article is referred to here -
>
> Frequent miscarriages in several women during the last years are also
> indicative of a general negative (teratogenic) load from the
> environment. Epidemiological evidence on birth defects which are
> caused by war contaminants is common in the literature. Hindin et al.
> offered a review of epidemiological studies on the teratogenicity of
> DU and concludes that human epidemiological evidence is consistent
> with increased risk of birth defects in the offspring of persons
> exposed to this war contaminant [5]. Studies in another war
> contaminant, Agent Orange, also find parental exposure to be
> associated with an increased risk of birth defects in the offspring
> [6].
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Steven Dapra <sjd at swcp.com> wrote:
> > Oct. 21
> >
> >        A quick correction ---
> >
> >        I have not read Busby's Fallujah paper --- the one about hair
> > samples, etc.  When I asked Busby if it had ever occurred to him that
> some
> > of us on RADSAFE had read his paper I was asking a rhetorical question.
> It
> > should be obvious that some of us have read it.  I have skimmed the
> Fallujah
> > paper and have read some portions of it however I have not read the
> entire
> > thing.
> >
> > Steven Dapra
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