Depleted spent uranium (atomic number 238 with some 233 still in it along with other isotopes) from our reactor cores after refueling is being used in missiles and bombs instead of lead (209) to use it up instead of bury it. This is sick - no wonder we are seeing all the deformities and cancer deaths in Iraq, Kosovo, and other heavily bombed countries
UN troops in Nato uranium food scare
BYLINE:
By Felicity Arbuthnot
GERMAN soldiers serving as United Nations
peacekeepers in Kosovo have been told not to eat local produce after fears that
deposits of radioactive uranium from Nato air strikes have contaminated the
countryside.
The UN has warned its officials in Kosovo that the water supply may be
contaminated. Last year Dutch soldiers in Prizren were ordered to hand in all
clothes and equipment, which were shipped back to the Netherlands in sealed
bags.
Depleted uranium, used in military shells, has been linked to Gulf war syndrome
and the spiralling levels of cancer and birth deformities in Iraq.
The use of depleted uranium in shells has twice been condemned as a weapon of
mass destruction by the UN commission of human rights.
A UN environmental mission last year cited serious contamination, but the report
was allegedly suppressed.
The orders to German soldiers come a week after a seven-page document warning of
the dangers of depleted uranium was put into the mail boxes of all personnel
working from the UN building in Pristina.
More than 31,000 missiles were fired into the former Yugoslavia, Nato estimates
say.
Scientists estimate that the amount of uranium in the soil in the worst affected
areas is up to 20 times the naturally occuring amount. Yugoslavia has said an
urgent clean-up is needed.
One sick Edinburgh-based Gulf war veteran, who served for 13 years with the 1st
Battalion of the Royal Scots, said: "The unit is ravaged by Gulf war
illnesses. An entire platoon - 36 men - are unwell and four friends who worked
from the same vehicle have cancer.''
Linlithgow MP Tam Dalyell said he would pursue the issue in Parliament this
week.
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Further Reading:
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1) 'It Turns Out Depleted Uranium Is Bad For NATO Troops In Kosovo' by Felicity Arbuthnot at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/arbuth/port.htm
2) Allies
'told in 1991 of uranium cancer risks'
by Felicity Arbuthnott and Neil Mackay (From 'Sunday herald') at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/told.htm
4) 'Deaths
threaten unity of Nato' at http://emperors-clothes.com/news/dudisunity.htm
(1-8-2001)
From the London "Times':
"Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, said: 'Even if this risk was not there, I do not like the idea of using these particular weapons. I want the truth to be ascertained.'
"In Washington the Pentagon insisted that there was no evidence linking its depleted uranium weapons with leukaemia, but privately senior Nato officials were furious at Signor Prodi's remarks and said that they risked whipping up public hysteria." Deaths Threaten Unity