From: Blunderov (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Tue May 18 2004 - 05:49:19 MDT
[Blunderov] A staggering interview.
Best Regards
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6201.htm
Atrocities in Iraq: 'I killed innocent people for our government'
<excerpt>
Q: You mention machine guns. What can you tell me about cluster bombs, or
depleted uranium?
A: Depleted uranium. I know what it does. It's basically like leaving
plutonium rods around. I'm 32 years old. I have 80 percent of my lung
capacity. I ache all the time. I don't feel like a healthy 32-year-old.
Q: Were you in the vicinity of of depleted uranium?
A: Oh, yeah. It's everywhere. DU is everywhere on the battlefield. If you
hit a tank, there's dust.
Q: Did you breath any dust?
A: Yeah.
Q: And if DU is affecting you or our troops, it's impacting Iraqi civilians.
A: Oh, yeah. They got a big wasteland problem.
Q: Do Marines have any precautions about dealing with DU?
A: Not that I know of. Well, if a tank gets hit, crews are detained for a
little while to make sure there are no signs or symptoms. American tanks
have depleted uranium on the sides, and the projectiles have DU in them. If
an enemy vehicle gets hit, the area gets contaminated. Dead rounds are in
the ground. The civilian populace is just now starting to learn about it.
Hell, I didn't even know about DU until two years ago. You know how I found
out about it? I read an article in Rolling Stone magazine. I just started
inquiring about it, and I said "Holy s---!"</excerpt>
[Blunderov] Also
http://www.unobserver.com/layout5.php?id=1462&blz=1
<excerpt>
Of all the violations of the laws of war by the highest officials of our
country, none is more alarming or portentous than the widespread,
premeditated use of depleted uranium in Iraq. Eleven miles north of the
Kuwaiti border on the "Highway of Death," disabled tanks, armored personnel
carriers, gutted public vehicles - the mangled metals of Desert Storm - are
resting in the desert, radiating nuclear energy. American soldiers who lived
for three months in the toxic wasteland now suffer from fatigue, joint and
muscle pain, respiratory ailments - a host of maladies often known as the
Gulf War Syndrome</excerpt>...
<excerpt>
After the Gulf War in 1991, Iraqi hospitals recorded a surge in cancer and
birth defects. Hospital statistics from Basra show that in 1988 there were
11 cancer cases per 100,000 people. By 2001, after schools, homes, and
entire neighborhoods were leveled from the air, the number increased to 116
per 100,000. Breast and lung cancer and leukemia showed up in all areas
contaminated by depleted uranium. Dr. Jawad al-Ali, cancer specialist at the
Basra Training Hospital, noted that, "The only factor that has changed here
since the 1991 war is radiation." Thirteen members of his staff, all present
when the hospital area was bombed, are now cancer patients. </excerpt>...
<excerpt>
The growing outcry against the use of depleted uranium is not a matter of
minor legal technicalities. The laws of war prohibit the use of weapons that
have deadly and inhumane effects beyond the field of battle. Nor can weapons
be legally deployed in war when they are known to remain active, or cause
harm after the war concludes. The use of depleted uranium is a crime whose
horrific consequences have yet to run their course
Years ago in the midst of France's brutal war in Algeria, the philosopher
Jean Paul Sartre admonished the French intelligentsia:
"It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the
crimes committed in our name. It's not at all right that you do not breathe
a word about them to anyone, not even to your own soul, for fear of having
to stand in judgment of yourself. I am willing to believe that at the
beginning you did not realize what was happening; later, you doubted whether
such things could be true; but now you know, and still you hold your
tongues."<excerpt>...
http://www.hermes-press.com/depluran.htm
The Depleted Uranium
Cover-up
By Michelle Mairesse
<excerpt>
How radioactive is depleted uranium? Bertell says, "The difference in
radioactivity between natural and depleted uranium is that given equal
quantities, depleted uranium has about half the radioactivity of the natural
mixture of uranium isotopes. However, because of the concentration of the
uranium in the depleted uranium waste, depleted uranium is much more
radioactive than uranium in its natural state." </excerpt>
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