Bulgaria runs radioactive tests for Kosovo troops

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

and then again, here we have:

Bulgaria runs radioactive tests for Kosovo troops
  
SOFIA, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Bulgaria will run medical tests on Thursday 
to check whether its peacekeepers in Kosovo were affected by 
radiation from depleted uranium ammunition used by NATO, the Defence 
Ministry said. 

"We have ordered the checks due to increased public interest, though 
so far we have not registered any health problems among our soldiers 
in Kosovo caused by radiation," Defence Minister Boiko Noev told a 
press conference. 

He said 39 Bulgarian soldiers were in Kosovo as part of a United 
Nations peacekeeping force which entered Kosovo in 1999 following 
NATO's air war to oust Serb forces. 

Results of the checks are expected on Friday or Saturday. 

There are rising concerns in Europe over mysterious illnesses among 
veterans of Balkan peacekeeping missions. 

Some NATO countries have urged the alliance to investigate claims 
that soldiers serving in the Balkans were killed by exposure to 
depleted uranium from spent ammunition used in NATO airstrikes 
against Yugoslavia. 

Noev said that Bulgaria, which borders Yugoslavia, had not so far 
registered any environmental pollution caused by the NATO campaign. 
"I believe that the possibilities for such pollution in Bulgaria are 
equal to zero," he said. 

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