The Queen's Death Star
Depleted Uranium Measured in British Atmosphere from
Battlefields in the Middle East
LEUREN MORET / Mindfully.org 26feb2006



The Queen's Death Star: Depleted Uranium Measured in
British Atmosphere from Battlefields in the Middle
East LEUREN MORET / Mindfully.org 26feb2006





Leuren Moret
President, Scientists for Indigenous People
City of Berkeley Environmental Commissioner
Past President, Association for Women Geoscientists
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"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.

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
U–235.

source 27feb2006

Depleted uranium weaponry meets the definition of a
Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) in two out of three
categories under US Code TITLE 50, CHAPTER 40 Sec.
2302 [at right].

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.

See documentary:

The Carlyle Group Exposed
· Low Bandwidth Version
· High Bandwidth Version
· MP3 audio of the soundtrack

The Queen's favorite American buccaneers, Cheney,
Halliburton, and the Bush family, are tied to her
through uranium mining and the shared use of illegal
depleted uranium munitions in the Middle East, Central
Asia and Kosovo/Bosnia.

The major roles that such diverse individuals and
groups as the Carlyle Group, George Herbert Walker
Bush, former Carlyle CEO Frank Calucci, the University
of California managed nuclear weapons labs at Los
Alamos and Livermore, and US and international pension
fund investments have played in proliferating depleted
uranium weapons is not well known or in most instances
even recognized, inside or outside the country.

God Save The Queen from the guilt of her complicity in
turning Planet Earth into a "Death Star."

[See: Did the use of Uranium weapons in Gulf War 2
result in contamination of Europe? Busby &
Saoirse1jan06]

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