-Caveat Lector- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: <A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_227000/2275 59.stm"> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_227000/227559.stm </A> ======================================================== December 3, 1998 Veterans back Iraq over Gulf war illness Iraq blames DU for increase in deformities Veterans from the 1991 Gulf war against Iraq are joining the Iraqi authorities in saying that ammunition used by the allies in the war has caused severe health problems. The veterans are attending an international medical conference in Baghdad on the impacts of depleted uranium, DU, which Iraq says is still poisoning the population. Iraqi doctors say they have seen a huge increase in problems in former combat areas and that childhood cancers have increased four-fold. DU, a metal residue left when natural uranium is refined, gives shells extra penetrating power. On impact, the shells create an airborne dust, which can be poisonous if inhaled or ingested. Two British Gulf War veterans, Ray Bristow and Colin Purcell-Lee, have travelled to Baghdad to gather more information on DU. The two men say they are suffering from the effects of DU. Our correspondent in Baghdad, Jeremy Cooke, says the fact that two British ex-servicemen are at the symposium, sitting with their former enemies, is clearly embarrassing for the UK Government. MoD raids soldier's home Mr Bristow has learned that his home in Hull has been raided by Ministry of Defence police and several official documents removed. The former warrant officer said he expects to be arrested when he gets home, but is not worried. ''I'm not frightened of the truth. Maybe the Ministry of Defence are, the government are. I'll do what's just and right. That is being patriotic to one's country. I'm not atraitor,'' he added. Our correspondent says the veterans know Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein will use them for propaganda purposes, but they are not apologising. The MoD says there is no evidence that British troops were exposed to depleted uranium. Child cancers soar The two-day conference, attended by 600 Iraqi doctors and scientists, called for a ban on DU and urged affected families to seek compensation from the US and Britain. Iraqi scientists showed pictures and slides of disfigured babies who were born without hands or legs or with distorted heads. They said the number of babies with birth defects had increased three-fold around the city of Basra in the south, which was close to Gulf War battlefields. And hospital statistics indicated that the number of Iraqi children with cancer rose to 130,000 in 1997 from 32,000 in 1990. 'Oil well fires could be to blame' But a Canadian scientist, Dr Hari Sharma, said although the deformations were heartbreaking, the Iraqis had failed to prove a link to DU. He suggested the increase in cancer could be caused by the huge oil well fires during the war or the subsequent UN sanctions which led to severe shortages of food and medicines. But he said he had found DU in urine samples from allied Gulf War veterans who had complained of unexpected ailments following service. British and American veterans said they had come to the conference because their own countries were withholding information on DU. =========================================================== Comments: The CIA recently leaked an area called Kamaishu as being a chem/bioweapons site the US blew up to destroy way out in the middle of no where. Yet---right in the middle of a huge area where soldiers were an ammo depot that cought fire ---burned up---blew up---- with enough DU to kill half the town with DU toxicity goes uninvestigated or modeled to the degree of the one out in the middle of no where. DU and heavy metal poisioning has the apearance of some biological agent because it alters the immune response and virals, bacteria, and other problems accompany the neurotoxic damages. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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