The recent documentary film BEYOND TREASON details the
horrific
effects of depleted uranium exposure on American troops and Iraqi
civilians
in the Gulf region in 1991; not to speak of those civilians
continuing
to live in permanently contaminated and thus uninhabitable
regions.
"Did the use of Uranium weapons in Gulf War II result in contamination of
Europe? Evidence from the measurements of the Atomic Weapons Establishment
(AWE), Aldermaston, Berkshire, UK," reported the Sunday Times Online (February
19, 2006) in a shocking scientific study authored by British
scientists Dr. Chris Busby and Saoirse Morgan.
The highest levels of depleted uranium ever measured in the atmosphere in
Britain, were transported on air currents from the Middle East and Central
Asia; of special significance were those from the Tora Bora bombing in
Afghanistan in 2001, and the "Shock & Awe" bombing during Gulf War II in
Iraq in 2003.
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Out of concern for the public, the official British government air
monitoring facility, known as the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), at
Aldermaston, was established years ago to measure radioactive emissions from
British nuclear power plants and atomic weapons facilities.
The British government facility (AWE) was taken over 3 years ago by
Halliburton, which refused at first to release air monitoring data to Dr.
Busby, as required by law.
An international expert on low level radiation, Busby serves as an official
advisor on several British government committees, and co-authored an
independent report on low level radiation with 45 scientists, the European
Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR), for the European Parliament. He was able
to get Aldermaston air monitoring data from Halliburton /AWE by filing a
Freedom of Information request using a new British law which became effective
January 1, 2005; but the data for 2003 was missing. He obtained the 2003 data
from the Defence Procurement Agency.
The fact that the air monitoring data was circulated by Halliburton/ AWE to
the Defence Procurement Agency, implies that it was considered to be relevant,
and that Dr. Busby was stonewalled because Halliburton/ AWE clearly recognized
that it was a serious enough matter to justify a government interpretation of
the results, and official decisions had to be made about what the data would
show and its political implications for the military.
In a similar circumstance, in 1992, Major Doug Rokke, the Director of the
U.S. Army Depleted Uranium Cleanup Project after Gulf War I, was ordered by a
U.S. Army General officer to write a no-bid contract "Depleted Uranium,
Contaminated Equipment, and Facilities Recovery Plan Outline" for the
procedures for cleaning up Kuwait, including depleted uranium, for Kellogg,
Brown and Root (KBR), a subsidiary of Halliburton.
The contract/proposal was passed through Madeleine Albright, the Secretary
of State, to the Emirate of Kuwait, who considered the terms and then hired
KBR for the cleanup.
Aldermaston is one of many nuclear facilities throughout Europe that
regularly monitor atmospheric radiation levels, transported by atmospheric
sand and dust storms, or air currents, from radiation sources in North Africa,
the Middle East and Central Asia.
After the "Shock and Awe" campaign in Iraq in 2003, very fine particles of
depleted uranium were captured with larger sand and dust particles in filters
in Britain. These particles traveled in 7-9 days from Iraqi battlefields as
far as 2400 miles away.
The radiation measured in the atmosphere quadrupled within a few weeks
after the beginning of the 2003 campaign, and at one of the 5 monitoring
locations, the levels twice required an official alert to the British
Environment Agency.
In addition to depleted uranium data gathered in previous studies on Kosovo
and Bosnia by Dr. Busby, the Aldermaston air monitoring data provided a
continuous record of depleted uranium levels in Britain from the other recent
wars.
Extensive video news footage of the 2003 Iraq war, including Fallujah in
2004, provided irrefutable documented evidence that the US has unethically and
illegally used depleted uranium munitions on cities and other civilian
populations.
These military actions are in direct violation of not only the
international conventions, but also violate US military law because the US is
a signatory to The Hague and Geneva Conventions and the 1925 Geneva Gas
Protocol.
TITLE 50 > CHAPTER 40 > § 2302§ 2302. Definitions Release date:
2005-03-17 In this chapter: (1) The term weapon of mass destruction means
any weapon or device that is intended, or has the capability, to cause death
or serious bodily injury to a significant number of people through the
release, dissemination, or impact of (A) toxic or poisonous chemicals or
their precursors; (B) a disease organism; or (C) radiation or radioactivity.
(2) The term independent states of the former Soviet Union has the meaning
given that term in section 5801 of title 22. (3) The term highly enriched
uranium means uranium enriched to 20 percent or more in the isotope U235. source
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After action mandates have also been violated such as US Army Regulation AR
700-48 and TB 9-1300-278 which requires treatment of radiation poisoning for
all casualties, including enemy soldiers and civilians, and remediation.
Dr. Busby's request for this data through Halliburton from AWE, and
subsequently provided by the Defence Procurement Agency, was necessary to
establish verification of Iraq's 2003 depleted uranium levels in the
atmosphere.
These facts demonstrate why Halliburton (AWE) refused to release the 2003
data to him, and it obviously establishes that weaponized depleted uranium is
an indiscriminate weapon being distributed all over the world in a very short
period of time, immediately after its use.
The recent documentary film BEYOND TREASON details the horrific effects of
depleted uranium exposure on American troops and Iraqi civilians in the Gulf
region in 1991; not to speak of those civilians continuing to live in
permanently contaminated and thus uninhabitable regions.
Global increases since 1991 of melanoma, infant mortality, and frog
die-offs can only be explained by an environmental contaminant. Alarming
global increases in diabetes, with high correlation to depleted uranium wars
in Iraq, Bosnia/Kosovo, and Afghanistan, demonstrate that diabetes is a
sensitive indicator and a rapid response to internal depleted uranium
exposure.
Americans in 2003 reported visiting Iraqi relatives in Baghdad who were
suffering from an epidemic of diabetes.
After returning to the US following 2-3 weeks in Iraq, they discovered
within a few months that they too had diabetes.
Japanese human shields and journalists who worked in Iraq during the 2003
war are sick and now have symptoms typical of depleted uranium exposure.
Likewise, after the US Navy, several years ago, moved depleted uranium
bombing and gunnery ranges from Vieques Island in Puerto Rico to Australia,
health effects there are already being reported.
The documentary film BLOWIN' IN THE
WIND, has an interview with a family with two normal
teenage daughters, living near the bombing range where depleted uranium
weaponry is now being used.
The parents showed photos of their baby born recently with severe birth
defects. The baby looked like Iraqi deformed babies, and like many of the
Iraqi babies, died 5 days after birth.
Other than anonymous British government officials denying that Iraq was the
source of the depleted uranium measured at Aldermaston by AWE, and some
unnamed 'establishment scientists' blaming it on local sources or natural
uranium in the Iraq environment, there is no one, as of this writing, willing
to lend their name or office to refuting this damning evidence reported by Dr.
Busby.
All of the anonymous statements used by the media thus far are contradicted
by the factual evidence found in the filters, which was all transported from
the same region.
The natural abundance of uranium in the crust of the earth is 2.4 parts per
million, which would not become concentrated to the high levels measured in
Britain during a long journey from the Middle East. These particles traveling
over thousands of miles would dilute the concentration rather than increase
it.
There are no known natural uranium deposits in Iraq which make it
impossible for these anonymous claims to have scientific credibility.
Unnamed government sources blamed local sources in Britain such as nuclear
power plants; however that would also leave evidence of fission products in
the filters which were not in evidence.
The lowest levels measured at monitoring stations around Aldermaston were
at the facility, which means it could not be a possible source. Atomic weapons
facilities would be more likely to produce plutonium contamination, also not
reported as a co-contaminant at Aldermaston.
In other words, all factual evidence considered, the question must be
asked, what were the media's anonymous experts and government officials basing
their claims on?
Dr. Keith Baverstock exposed a World Health Organization (WHO) cover-up on
depleted uranium in an Aljazeera article, "Washington's Secret Nuclear War"
posted on September 14, 2004. It was the most popular article ever posted on
the Aljazeera English language website.
See: Radiological toxicity of
DU K. BAVERSTOCK, C. MOTHERSILL & M. THORNE Repressed
WHO Document 5nov01
Baverstock leaked an official WHO report that he wrote, to the media
several years ago after the WHO refused to publish it. He warned in the report
about the mobility of, and environmental contamination from, tiny depleted
uranium particles formed from US munitions.
Busby's ECRR report challenged the International Committee on Radiation
Protection (ICRP) standards for radiation risk, and reported that the
mutagenic effects of radiation determined by Chernobyl studies are actually
1000 times higher than the ICRP risk model predicts.
The ECRR report also establishes that the ICRP risk model, based on
external exposure of Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims, and the ECRR risk model,
based on internal exposure, are mutually exclusive models. In other words, the
ICRP risk model based on external exposure cannot be used to estimate internal
exposure risk.
The report also states that a separate study is needed for depleted uranium
exposure risks, because it may be far more toxic than nuclear weapons or
nuclear power plant exposures. In July of 2005, the National Academy of
Sciences reported in their new BEIR VII report on low level radiation, that
there is "no safe level of exposure".
The report also finally admitted that very low levels are more harmful per
unit of radiation than higher levels of exposure, also known as the
"supralinear" effect.
This is extremely alarming information on low level radiation risk, since
the AWE data from Aldermaston confirms that rapid global transport of depleted
uranium dust is occurring.
Dr. Katsuma Yagasaki, a Japanese physicist at the University of the Ryukyus
in Okinawa, has estimated that the atomicity equivalent of at least 400,000
Nagasaki bombs has been released into the global atmosphere since 1991, from
the use of depleted uranium munitions.
It is completely mixed in the atmosphere in one year. The "smog of war"
from Gulf War I was found in glaciers and ice sheets globally a year
later.
Even more alarming is the non-specific catalytic or enzyme effect from
internal exposures to nanoparticles of depleted uranium. Soldiers on depleted
uranium battlefields have reported that, after noticing a metallic taste in
their mouths, within 24-48 hours of exposure they became sick with Gulf War
syndrome symptoms.
Who is profiting from this global uranium nightmare? Dr. Jay Gould revealed
in his book THE ENEMY WITHIN [see excerpt],
that the British Royal family privately owns investments in uranium holdings
worth over $6 billion through Rio Tinto Mines. The mining company was formed
for the British Royal family in the late 1950's by Roland Walter "Tiny"
Rowland, the Queen's buccaneer.
Born in 1917 through illegitimate German parentage, and before changing his
name, Roland Walter Fuhrhop was a passionate member of the Nazi youth movement
by 1933, and a classmate described him as "...an ardent supporter of Hitler
and an arrogant, nasty piece of work to boot."
His meteoric rise and protection by intel agencies and the British Crown
are an indication of what an asset he has been for decades to the Queen, as
Africa's most powerful Western businessman.
Africa and Australia are two of the main sources of uranium in the world.
The Rothschilds control uranium supplies and prices globally, and one serves
as the Queen's business manager.
Filmmaker David Bradbury made BLOWIN' IN THE WIND to expose depleted
uranium bombing and gunnery range activities contaminating pristine areas of
eastern Australia, and to expose plans to extract over $36 billion in uranium
from mines in the interior over the next 6 years. Halliburton has finished
construction of a 1000 mile railway from the mining area to a port on the
north coast of Australia to transport the ore.
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By Leuren Moret President,
Scientists for Indigenous People, City of Berkeley Environmental Commissioner
Past President, Association for Women Geoscientists Berkeley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [More by Leuren Moret] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
