Hi Karen,
 
Supposedly US came in in 2002 with their "counterterrorism" (wink wink) unit.
Here's an article that suggests that Alciaduh has been (manufactured) there,
too... but, as this states, not till after 9/11...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/HH23Ae01.html
 
DU military advantages? Hmmm... They claim that they use it in order to
penetrate tanks, yet that never does explain why they drop Uranium bombs and
fire Uranium missiles where there are no tanks and no armor that requires
penetrating.
 
But more precious than gold in the Phillipines? There's apparently not gold
chunks, but yellow cake- ie, Uranium, in dar dere yonder Phillipine hills (or,
rather,
thick, mountainous jungles, deep ravenes, muddy creeks, flat rice-paddies, sugar
cane fields and grassland). http://tinyurl.com/5dv8uw
 
What we have done in the Philippines - and so many other islands... is just
unbelievably devastating. Here's one article that talks of some of it.
http://www.radioproject.org/transcript/2000/0048.html
 
Apparently, the US has used all sorts of toxic and radioactive substances at its
military bases and firing ranges. Two law suits against the US government are
listed here under Toxic Waste: http://www.yonip.com/index/-Toxic.html
 
I found some more interesting reading (below).
The more I research, the more ashamed I become.
 
Cathy Garger
 
Philippines example
 

Growing popular struggles against the joint military exercises and the CSL bases
in the Philippines may have an impact on anti-base struggles around the world.
 

For over 110 years the Philippines has been U.S. imperialism’s prime military
outpost and stepping stone to China and the Asian mainland. U.S. bases in the
Philippines enabled the U.S. military to control strategic sea lanes.
 

Philippine law has banned U.S. bases since a mass movement forced them out in
1992. Yet today 30,000 to 50,000 U.S. troops are stationed there and are in
constant operation. Under the Balikatan joint war exercises, the Pentagon is
bringing in logistical equipment and building installations.
 

According to a Feb. 26 report from Foreign Policy in Focus, the number of
troops, ships, equipment and infrastructure grows each year. The year 2005 saw
24 joint military exercises involving U.S. and Philippine troops. This grew to
37 scheduled exercises in 2006—or one U.S. military exercise every 10 days.
 

“Training missions” and military exercises mean a continuing presence of U.S.
troops in the Philippines. It also comes with a special name: the Joint Special
Operations Task Force-Philippines. The JSOTF-P has been based in the Philippines
for more than six years on an ongoing “temporary training mission.” The U.S.
stay has become open-ended and, as with the “temporary” CSL bases, its
permanence is unofficial and unacknowledged.
 

Immediately after 9/11 Washington used as an excuse for the re-entry of its
forces that the Philippines needed help in fighting a “terrorist threat” from a
small, secretive armed group known as Abu Sayyaf. The Manila Times of Aug. 27,
2007, reported that, “Even as the United States denies plans to set up a
military base in the Philippines, the American military is reportedly building a
host of projects across Mindanao.”
 

A Rand Corporation report prepared for the U.S. Air Force entitled “Ungoverned
Territories” and available online summarizes U.S. military presence globally. It
highlights the Pakistan/Afghanistan border area, East Africa, West Africa, the
Caucasus, the Venezuela/Colombia border and Mindanao Island in the Philippines.
The U.S. “area of operations” in the Philippines presently covers 8,000 square
miles, including the entire island of Mindanao and surrounding islands.
 
Paying for occupation
 

In the Philippines and many other underdeveloped countries drowning in debt, the
“host” country must pay for the U.S. military presence.
 

According to a Mutual Logistics Support Agreement, available online, that the
Philippines signed with the U.S. in November 2002, the Philippine government
must supply the Pentagon with all the logistical support needed during the
endless military and training “exercises” and “other U.S. military deployments”
to maintain their forces in the region. This Support Agreement lists everything
from food and water to ammunition, spare parts and components, billeting,
transportation, communication, medical services, operation support, training
services, repair and maintenance, storage services, port services and
construction of “temporary structures.”
 

Everything the U.S. used to supply for its own use at its former bases in the
region, such as the giant Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base, is now to be
provided by the impoverished Philippine government on an as-need basis.
 

The newsletter U.S. Intervention Watch, published by Initiatives for Peace in
Mindanao in coordination with US Troops Out Now! Mindanao Coalition, explains
that the widely publicized U.S. humanitarian missions are really military
operations and a cover for a permanent military presence.
 

“The objective is not to provide health care to peasant farmers, but to secure
U.S. economic interests in the Asia-Pacific by turning the Philippines into a
base of operation. This base will serve to protect U.S. multi-billion dollar
investments and promote prospective commerce in the Philippines in oil, energy,
minerals and plantations, keep an eye on the Malacca Straits where 25 percent of
all globally traded oil passes, and threaten nearby China as its rise to global
power continues,” says the newsletter.
 
Massacre made in USA
 

U.S. occupation troops bring attacks, massacres and rapes of the local civilian
population. According to a news article in Bulatlat, a weekly Philippine online
news magazine, “U.S. troops were present during the February 4 assault by
combined Army and Navy elite forces on Barangay village, Ipil, Maimbung, Sulu,
that killed eight non-combatants, including an Army soldier home on vacation.”
 

Sulu’s Governor Abdulsakur Tan said: “This is not the first time that the U.S.
troops were reported to have taken part in Philippine military operations in
Sulu.” He corroborated the U.S. role in an attack in early 2007, when U.S.
troops were supposedly doing “road construction” in the village of Barangay
Bato-Bato, Indanan.
 

Temogen Tulawie, convener of the Concerned Citizens of Sulu and former Jolo
councilor, said the latest massacre is part of a larger picture. Starting in
2003, Balikatan military exercises were held in Sulu. This provoked waves of
protest from the people, who still remember an historic massacre committed in
1906 when hundreds of Moro resistance fighters were gunned down by U.S.
occupation forces.
 

Kawagib Moro Human Rights Organization and Suara Bangsamoro have filed a case
before the U.N. Human Rights Council on the latest massacre.
 

The U.S. military presence is no longer covert in the Philippines. A mass
movement is paying growing attention and mobilizing against this new form of
U.S. occupation. As Initiatives for Peace and U.S. Troops Out Now! Mindanao
Coalition explained: “Mindanao has a long history of resistance to
colonization.”
http://www.iacenter.org/philippines/philippine-resistance033008/






--- On Mon, 12/8/08, ied@... <ied@...> wrote:

From: ied@... <ied@...>
Subject: Re: [DU-WATCH] Islamic Boogeyman Manufactured in Phillipines, too
To: du-watch@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 3:23 PM






HI Kathy. The Philippines and the Moro front have been fighting for years. Long
before 9/11. The US has also aided in this for a long time. Any evidence of use
of weapons with DU? Actually, it doesn't make sense as the military advantages
of DU are of no use in this war. karen

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>From: Cathy Garger <savorsuccesslady3@ yahoo.com>
>Sent: Dec 8, 2008 9:53 AM
>To: V911T@yahoogroups. com, FightTheseWars@ yahoogroups. com,
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>Subject: [DU-WATCH] Islamic Boogeyman Manufactured in Phillipines, too
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>In the sold-out affiliate of THE NY TIMES story below we read about how Uncle
Sam has, in this post-9/11 world, helped teach the peace-loving Filipinos
to pick off those pesky Islamic internationa l terrorists as if they were flies.
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>Maybe it's just me, but has anyone else noticed how the world's Muslims were
rather a contemplative 'n' spiritual, peaceful bunch, minding their own business
down the ages... until some "dustification"  (courtesy www.drjudywood. com )
was perpetrated upon a few sky scrapers a little over 7 years back?
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>Obliterating the towers into fine dust was obviously a serious clandestine
"shock and awe" quasi-military affair... fair warning, you might say, for other
world leaders to sit down and shut up (if they know what's good for 'em) and
watch in horror while *real* international  imperialist terrorists began
to rape, rob, desecrate, and radioactively contaminate with Uranium poison dust
and gas one nation after the next under the cloak of fighting some glorified
mission that historians most certainly will one day designate "The Era of
the US-Islamic Crusades."
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>Can anyone please tell me how come, whenever the US military comes to a nation
to bring "humanitarian" relief, coincidentally, while they're there.... those
labeled and branded as Muslim rebels, terrorists, radicals, extremists, and
"separatists" suddenly appear out of nowhere... only to require Uncle Sam's
special brand of "humanitarian" relief and assistance.. . out of the barrel of a
Uranium-loaded 
>cannon or Gatling gun?
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>One thing's for dang certain. Peace is never safe whenever, wherever the red,
white, and blue comes a callin'.
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>May the nations of the world take heed!  In the future, simply refuse the drops
of disposable diapers, powdered milk, and vaccines filled with unlabeled potions
- and the camouflage, guns, and carnage that comes with it... and just say NO to
any and all offers of what is deceptively pimped as US humanitarian "assistance.
"
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>Like a skull and cross flag on a pirate ship, the arrival of the stars and
stripes to a nation's shores is but a clear and certain signal that trouble's a
brewin'... and that it's time to quickly lock up and secure your women, your
children, and your natural resources, too.
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>Cathy Garger 
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>Troops and separatists clash in southern Philippines
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>Published: December 8, 2008
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>MANILA:  As many as five marines and five Muslim separatist rebels were killed
during intense fighting in the southern Philippines, military officials said
Monday. They said an undetermined number of government troops and rebels were
also wounded.
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>The fighting began Sunday and continued Monday morning in the two
Muslim-dominated provinces of Sulu and Basian, islands that the government had
earlier declared to be free from terrorists and Islamic extremists after a
U.S.-supported counterterrorism campaign that began in 2002.
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>Officials said Monday that the number of those killed could sharply increase,
particularly on the side of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a Muslim
separatist group.
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>"We are now on a defensive stance," said an army spokeswoman, Lieutenant
Steffani Cacho. She said the government was mainly going after members of the
Abu Sayyaf and "rogue elements" of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the
separatist group. She said a recent spate of kidnappings in the region prompted
the military operation.
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>Cacho said that the marines were killed in a firefight in the town of Al-Barka
in Basilan Province, a former stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf. In July last year,
14 marines were also killed in the same town after a firefight, 10 of whom
were beheaded.
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