Re: more on DU

[Daveandrewswxm1@AOL.COM]

Dear Norm,


Interesting articles. Strange that one of the first mentions of Jovanovic's report says that "25 % of wartime Hadzici residents have died etc" but the very next sentence says "In Bratunac alone in the last four years 500 of the 5000 Hadzici refugees had died." This is more like 10%. 


The article also first calls the DU  used "bombs" although it is clear that it was in the form of cannon  rounds from A-10s. These contain approx 270 gms of DU each so in total around 290 kgs of DU was used in Bosnia. This compares to the 320+ tonnes used in the Gulf War.


I'm not trying to say that there are'nt health problems associated with the use of DU weapons nor that there have'nt been health problems for the former residents of Hadzici but that the assertion that there has been a mushrooming of cancer deaths resulting from a substance that is 200,000 times less radioactive than plutonium is difficult to credit.


In peace,  Dave