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

Wed Apr 6 15:44:44 CEST 2005

Although I know this is a bit off topic, I think it is important to set the
record straight. The CBC, like the BBC is publicly owned. It is not Canada's
ABC.
Bill

Norm Cohen wrote:

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>   From: "WantToKnow.info" <wecare at wanttoknow.info>
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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
> > spread the word on this important topic by
> > forwarding this information to your friends and
> > colleagues. Together, we can make a difference.
> >
> > With best wishes,
> > Fred Burks for the WantToKnow.info Team
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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> "A time comes when silence is betrayal.
> Even when pressed by the demands of
> inner truth, men do not easily assume
> the task of opposing their government's
> policy, especially in time of war.
> Nor does the human spirit move without
>   great difficulty against all the apathy
> of conformist thought, within one's own
> bosom and in the surrounding world."
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