[ RadSafe ] Fwd: Depleted Uranium - Suppressed Reports and Veterans' Suffering Given Little Coverage

Wed Apr 6 14:30:47 CEST 2005

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> Subject: Depleted Uranium - Suppressed Reports and
> Veterans' Suffering Given Little Coverage
> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 21:59:28 -0700
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> Professor Doug Rokke, ex-director of the Pentagon's
> depleted uranium project -- a former professor of
> environmental science at Jacksonville University and
> onetime US army colonel who was tasked by the US
> department of defence with the post-first Gulf war
> depleted uranium desert clean-up -- said use of DU
> was a 'war crime'.
>   -- Sunday Herald (Australia's leading newspaper),
> 3/30/03
>
>
> April 5, 2005
> Dear friends,
>
>
> Depleted uranium is a major issue which has received
> little media coverage in spite of its extensive use
> in the Gulf War and the two recent wars. The
> military and other government officials claim it is
> not harmful except at very close range, while other
> experts testify that depleted uranium is responsible
> for a wide range of problems, including the ravaging
> Gulf War Syndrome experienced by so many Gulf War
> veterans.
>
> Scientific studies on the subject have been
> repressed. Key witness testimony by hundreds of
> victims has been ignored or inadequately explained
> away. Below are excerpts from several articles
> dealing with depleted uranium on the websites of top
> media outlets with links to the original articles.
> Why are the facts on this important matter being
> suppressed? Why are our governments not addressing
> the cause of suffering of these many recent war
> veterans?
>
> To understand the reasoning for the suppression, I
> highly recommend our summary of highly decorated US
> General Smedley Butler's book War is a Racket at
> http://www.WantToKnow.info/warisaracket. General
> Butler gives an insiders perspective on how powerful
> economic forces promote war for reasons of profit
> while ignoring the very serious consequences to the
> many military and civilian lives affected. Let us
> all do what we can to call for the prominent
> publication of the scientific studies on depleted
> uranium which have been suppressed. Please help to
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> Fred Burks for the WantToKnow.info Team
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>
>
> US forces' use of depleted uranium weapons is
> 'illegal'
> Sunday Herald (Australia's leading newspaper) March
> 30, 2003
> http://www.sundayherald.com/32522
>
> BRITISH and American coalition forces are using
> depleted uranium (DU) shells in the war against Iraq
> and deliberately flouting a United Nations
> resolution which classifies the munitions as illegal
> weapons of mass destruction. DU contaminates land,
> causes ill-health and cancers among the soldiers
> using the weapons, the armies they target and
> civilians, leading to birth defects in children.
>
> Professor Doug Rokke, ex-director of the Pentagon's
> depleted uranium project -- a former professor of
> environmental science at Jacksonville University and
> onetime US army colonel who was tasked by the US
> department of defence with the post-first Gulf war
> depleted uranium desert clean-up -- said use of DU
> was a 'war crime'. A study of Gulf war veterans
> showed that 67% had children with severe illnesses,
> missing eyes, blood infections, respiratory problems
> and fused fingers.
>
> Silver Bullet: Depleted Uranium
> CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Canada's
> ABC)
> http://www.tv.cbc.ca/national/pgminfo/du/
>
> A year after war's end, [Gulf War Vet Jerry] Wheat
> got startling evidence from his father -- a
> technician at the famous Los Alamos Nuclear Research
> Centre, who just out of curiosity tested the
> shrapnel that came from his son's body and gear. The
> shrapnel was radioactive. Today, eight years after
> the Gulf War, that shrapnel still lights up a Geiger
> counter. He also keeps other pieces.
>
> Jerry's great fear is that whatever he brought back
> with him from the Gulf is now afflicting his family.
> His older son Joe was hospitalized with breathing
> problems the day after Wheat dragged his
> contaminated gear into the house. Derrick, his
> youngest son, who was born after the war, suffers
> strange blisters on his hands. His wife suffered a
> miscarriage. Jerry himself recently had a tumour
> removed from his shoulder. He now worries
> continually about cancer. Jerry says the military
> has never shown any interest in his shrapnel. The
> military said Jerry's health problems are due to
> post traumatic stress.
>
> WHO 'suppressed' scientific study into
> depleted uranium cancer fears in Iraq
> Sunday Herald, Feb. 22, 2004
> http://www.sundayherald.com/40096
>
> An expert report warning that the long-term health
> of Iraq's civilian population would be endangered by
> British and US depleted uranium (DU) weapons has
> been kept secret. The study by three leading
> radiation scientists cautioned that children and
> adults could contract cancer after breathing in dust
> containing DU, which is radioactive and chemically
> toxic. But it was blocked from publication by the
> World Health Organisation (WHO), which employed the
> main author, Dr Keith Baverstock, as a senior
> radiation advisor. He alleges that it was
> deliberately suppressed, though this is denied by
> WHO.
>
> Baverstock also believes that if the study had been
> published when it was completed in 2001, there would
> have been more pressure on the US and UK to limit
> their use of DU weapons in last year's war, and to
> clean up afterwards. Hundreds of thousands of DU
> shells were fired by coalition tanks and planes
> during the conflict, and there has been no
> comprehensive decontamination. Experts from the
> United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have so
> far not been allowed into Iraq to assess the
> pollution.
>
>
>
> For more information, The Christian Science Monitor
> has a compilation of 16 articles exposing the
> dangers of depleted uranium at
>
http://www.csmonitor.com/atcsmonitor/specials/uranium/
>
> BBC also has a webpage listing 10 of their articles
> both pro and con regarding depleted uranium at
>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/europe/2001/depleted_uranium/default.stm
>
>
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