http://www.jordantimes.com/Sun/homenews/homenews1.htm

Jordan Times
Janary 14, 2001
 
Multinational delegation to investigate impact of
depleted uranium on Iraqi population
By Tareq Ayyoub
   AMMAN — Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark
left for Baghdad on Saturday, leading a multi-national
delegation that will investigate the impact of
depleted uranium (DU) used by the US-led coalition
during the 1990-91 Gulf War on Iraqi population,
Jordanian sources said.
The sources also indicated that Clark's trip will
coincide with the 10th anniversary of the land battle
which forced Iraqi army to pull out of Kuwait after a
seven-month occupation of the Gulf emirate.
A statement from the International Action Centre
(IAC), which was founded by Clark, indicated that at
least 50 people will board the Royal Jordanian plane
that will transport the delegation to Iraq.
"The delegation, which is bringing solidarity medical
aid to Iraq, will have as a major project an
investigation of illnesses in Iraq caused by the
depleted uranium," the one-page statement of IAC said.

The Sanctions Challenge flight is the first to include
American passengers travelling by air following the
break in the self-proclaimed US-UK air embargo imposed
since 1991 over Iraqi airspace last year.
"The Sanctions Challenge will perform a service by
interviewing Iraqi scientists and doctors who have
investigated DU's impact on the Iraqi population," the
statement quoted Clark as saying.
"The sanctions have isolated [Iraqi] scientists from
their colleagues around the world, prevented them from
obtaining the proper equipment and stopped them from
publishing their results internationally," Clark said
in the written statement.
The Iraqi government has repeatedly said that cancer
cases have increased rapidly following the war,
especially in southern governorates.
It said that depleted uranium used by the coalition
was the major reason behind the increasing number of
cancer cases, especially leukaemia.
"Our government is responsible for enormous suffering
in Iraq and should be made to pay for the cleanup and
care of the population," Clark said in the statement,
which was made available to the Jordan Times.
Many American and British soldiers, who participated
in the 1991 war, have been affected by an illness
referred to as the Gulf War Syndrome. It is believed
in many medical circles to have been caused by the DU
used in the war.
IAC statement claimed that US left 60,000 pounds of DU
in the Gulf region.
Former Lower House member Leith Shbeilat, who will
accompany Clark on his mission to Iraq, said that the
delegation will express solidarity with Iraq, now
facing its tenth year of sanctions.
In addition to Clark and Shbeilat, the delegation
includes: Damacio Lopez, a New Mexico activist, IAC
coordinator Sara Flounders, who co-edited the book
'Metal of Dishonour: How the Pentagon Radiates
Soldiers and Civilians with Depleted Uranium Weapons.'

______________________________________
Health minister, US activists fly to Iraq
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Health Minister Tareq Suheimat flew to
Baghdad Saturday, along with a medical delegation and
a team of US activists opposed to the UN sanctions
against Iraq.
Around 20 activists were on the Royal Jordanian plane,
in what was the first US team to challenge a
decade-old UN air embargo on Baghdad.
"We want to show that we are sorry, as Americans, for
the damage the American bombs are doing," said James
Jennings, the trip's organiser and head of a US
humanitarian group called Conscience International.
"We are probably the first Americans who have flown
over Iraq for a long time who have not got bombs to
drop on the country," he said in an arrival statement,
referring to US and British air strikes on Iraq.
Jennings said his team, including social workers and
child disability experts, represented organisations
from several US states.
"All these people have come together in order to show
that there are many thousands of people in America who
are concerned about the devastating effects of these
sanctions," he said.
Jennings said the mission was organised without US or
UN authorisation, although Jordan had notified the
United Nations of its flight, and the Americans had
brought a consignment of medicine, including
antibiotics and anti-parasitical medicine.
The Jordanian delegation, meanwhile, is to attend a
"Jordan-Iraq medical week" during which surgeons
accompanying Suheimat will help their Iraqi
counterparts perform gynaecological, sterility and
heart operations.
Iraq represents a strategic market for the sale of
Jordanian drugs and medical equipment, and Amman is
determined to bolster relations with its sanctions-hit
neighbour.
Suheimat is expected to hold talks with Iraqi health
officials on means to increase the volume of medicine
sales to Baghdad and review a health agreement between
the two countries, Jordanian officials said.
Iraq has been under UN sanctions since its 1990
invasion of Kuwait but is authorised to export crude
in return for imports of humanitarian goods.
 
 

http://www.sundayherald.com/news/newsi.hts?section=News+Focus&story_id
=13697

The Sunday Herald (Scotland)
14 January 2001

  Depleted Uranium: Scots in the line of fire
Solway Firth: Just off the coast of the tiny village
of Dundrennan lie some 6000 discarded DU shells.
Torquil Crichton meets the locals living in fear
Publication Date: Jan 14 2001
IT is almost too quiet. Nestling around the ruins of
the abbey where Mary Queen of Scots spent her last
night on Scottish soil, the village of Dundrennan is a
picture postcard of tranquillity. Tractors and local
traffic pass through intermittently, cows graze in the
fields, and occasionally residents walk past with
their dogs.
With a small population and little political leverage
it is, like most parts of the world preferred by the
military , a quiet corner. But south-west Scotland is
far from somnolent. Low-flying sorties are routine and
the waters to the west are bus routes for nuclear-
powered submarines .
Across the Solway Firth is the Sellafield nuclear
reactor, Britain's most polluting civilian nuclear
site. Radioactive particles from the plant have been
blamed for polluting the Irish Sea and have been
detected as far north as Norway.
But there is an even closer threat that has set nerves
on edge along the Galloway coast . For the past 19
years the Ministry of Defence has test-fired depleted
uranium shells at the Dundrennan firing range situated
between the village and the sea. Somewhere out in the
Solway Firth are more than 6000 discarded DU shells .
The military insist there is no danger, but this does
nothing to allay local worries.
"We moved here a year ago from Edinburgh to get away
from pollution. Now we're not so sure," says May
Halliday, whose canine charges are straining at the
leash on a farm track running by the base perimeter.
Her unease is felt among the 200 or so souls of
Dundrennan whose fears over DU shells on their
doorstep have been rewakened by the flurry of recent
publicity. There have been renewed calls for the
suspension of test- firing, due to begin again at the
end of this month, and for another effort to be made
to recover the spent shells on the sea bed.
Life for the military would have been quieter if it
were not for the activities of one man with a
passionate conviction that the firing of DU shells at
the range has been poisoning the local population for
years.
Dan Kenny, a retired oilfield manager and a wartime
bomb-disposal expert, has been described as
obsessional and dismissed as a scaremonger for his
constant campaign against DU shells. Even local
environmentalists keep their distance - although they
add a respectful qualifier. "He's overly fond of
quoting his statistics, but the thing is that he may
be right," warns one environmental campaigner.
Now, international pressure is backing up his one-man
crusade . "The locals know I'm telling the truth but
our elected representatives accept all the lies and
deceit from the MoD instead of hell-raising ," he
says.
Pressure from Kenny and other activists led to demands
for a public inquiry into the environmental effects of
the test-firing at Dundrennan in the early 1990s.
The request was rejected by the government but an
independent assessment of the site was carried out. It
concluded, as did subsequent annual studies by the
MoD, that there was no danger.
Kenny disagrees. He says the range and landside
targets are the real threat. Radio-active particles
left over from the firing can disperse in the wind or
enter the soil on which the cows graze.
Kenny is driven by personal experience. His
brother-in-law, who worked as a security man on the
range, died from cancer. "They were there picking up
shrapnel with their bare hands," says Kenny. "He went
to bed in April and he never got up out of it again.
He was as yellow as a duck's foot when he died and he
was only in his fifties."
Kenny claims that five people who served as security
men at the site have died from cancer-related
illnesses, and that the same number of children died
from leukemia in the area between 1992 and 1997. L
ocal health officials say cancer rates are not
statistically abnormal.
One veteran of the Sellafield campaign sympathises
with Kenny. "People can say what they like about him
but if I came along with a proposal to set up a
business that involved hurling highly radioactive
particles into the sea I know who would be dismissed
as a crank."
There is annual monitoring of the marine and land
environment by civilian and military sources but there
has been no effort, other than one aborted attempt, to
recover the fired shells.
"The real concern is the DU shells on the sea-bed. We
don't know where they are or what is happening to
them," says David Grant, of the local council's
environmental health department. "There is concern
about DU dust coming off the range but we haven't
detected anything onshore or in the sea."As far as the
military is concerned there is no detectable pollution
and consequently no need to recover the shells. But
Kenny vows he will not rest until he makes them change
their mind about cleaning up the area.
"Some people say I'm trying to make Kirkcudbright a no
go area - well I say no, I'm trying to make it safe
for the future."

------- Forwarded message follows -------
From: antiatom@... (<antiatom@...>)
Date: Sat, Jan 13, 2001, 11:27pm (EST+14)

January 13, 2001

Dear friends of the Abolition 2000,
For your reference, attached are two letters we sent, one addressed
to
the governments of US & UK, the NATO Headquarters and the U.N., and
the other addressed to the Japanese Government. We join with all of
you to call for thorough investigation in this, and international ban
on these weapons. Yours, Rieko Asato, Gensuikyo
--------------------------------------- Letter to the Governments of
the USA and the UK, the NATO Headquarters, and the United Nations: We
Call for a Ban on Use of Depleted Uranium Shells
                                                              January
13, 2001
                                                              Japan
Council against Atomic & Hydrogen Bombs Dear Sirs,           As an
anti-nuclear peace movement representing the Japanese people, who
suffered the damage from the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we
are
deeply concerned about the reports that many people are suffering
from
leukemia and other problems inferred as having been caused by the
depleted uranium shells in and around Kosovo, where DU shells were
massively used in the NATO bombing over Yugoslavia in Spring 1999.
          The DU shells had been massively used by the US forces
during the Gulf War in 1991, and high incidence of radiation diseases
among not only Iraqi residents but also US military personnel who
took
part in the war operation developed into a serious issue.
Nevertheless, the US and its allies again massively used DU weapons
in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, and then in Kosovo. The US has even sold a
large number of DU weapons to other allied countries, encouraging
them
to use these weapons.           As known, the DU weapons, albeit they
are not in the category of nuclear weapons that produce explosive
energy by nuclear fission or fusion, have been warned from early days
that they cause serious, anti-human radiation effects directly and
through environmental contamination. The responsibility of the NATO,
and the US and the UK in particular, who continued to use the DU
weapons in spite of their position to know about their anti-human
nature, is very heavy.           We of the Japan Council against
Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, on behalf of the Japanese people, who
suffered the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, file a strong protest
against NATO, and particularly the Governments of the USA and the UK,
who keep trying to justify the use of DU weapons, and urge NATO and
the Governments of all its member states not to use nor to deploy DU
weapons. We demand that they should conduct a thorough investigation
on the damage by the DU weapons used in all the conflicts in which
NATO was involved since the outbreak of the Gulf War, and make public
the outcome of the investigation.           We also request that the
United Nations Organization will make an inquiry into the damage
caused by DU weapons, and that it will take the initiative in
enacting
international rule banning the military use of depleted uranium.
-------------------------------------- Letter to the Japanese
Government On the Problem of Depleted Uranium Weapons
                                                                Januar
y 13, 2001                                 The Japan Council against
A
and H Bombs           The news reports about a heavy human damage,
including the cases of leukemia, and environmental destruction caused
in Kosovo and other areas by depleted uranium shells, massively used
by NATO forces during the bombing over Yugoslavia, are eliciting
serious concern internationally, and even among NATO member states.
          The danger for depleted uranium to cause such damage, if
used for military purpose, has long been pointed out by many experts.
In fact, in Iraq and even among the military personnel of the NATO
side who handled DU weapons during the Gulf War in 1991, symptoms
arising from the exposure to radiation later developed. This became
known as the "Gulf Syndrome".           We have already demanded from
NATO and all its member states that they should immediately stop
deploying and using DU weapons. We also requested UN that it take the
initiative in enacting international law banning the military use of
depleted uranium.           At the same time, we are concerned that
along with the other nuclear weapons states, the USA has produced
massive DU weapons and deployed them for the US forces operating
worldwide. It has deployed DU weapons in the territories of other
countries and has even exported to its allies.           In
consideration of the desire of Japanese people, who suffered the
tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we urge the Japanese Government:
          1. To make a thorough investigation on the bringing,
deployment and/or actual use in military practices of DU weapons by
the US forces in Japan and release its outcome, and;           2. To
urge the US Administration to stop once for all the deployment or use
of DU weapons; and to demand that it should remove all DU weapons
from
Japan, if already brought in at all.
============================================== Japan Council against
A
& H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo) Email: antiatom@... 6-19-23
Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0004 Japan Tel: 81-3-3436-3205 Fax:
81-3-3431-8781 http://www.twics.com/~antiatom/

http://www.jordantimes.com/Sun/opinion/opinion1.htm

The Jordan Times (Amman)
January 14, 2001
 
Editorial:
Ban the use of depleted uranium
   SUSPECTED LINKS between the use of bombs and
bullets containing depleted uranium in Kosovo and
Bosnia, in 1999 and 1994-5, respectively, and the
worrying increase in the occurrence of leukaemia,
lymphomas and various types of cancer among troops
serving there have rightly caused an uproar in Europe.

We join all those who are calling for clear and
effective international legal instruments to forbid
the use of depleted uranium ammunition: The damage
that uranium dust can inflict and has inflicted on
people — soldiers and civilians alike — who breathe
it, as well as to the environment, polluting the water
and entering the food chain, is tantamount to the
effects of other types of weapons of mass destruction
that are currently banned.
We find the use of depleted uranium weapons appalling,
and as if war was not sufficiently undignified, it
added to our outrage to learn that uranium can easily
be replaced by other metals, like tungsten, with even
"better" results as to the preciseness and performance
of the ammunition, and "less risks" to the environment
and human beings alike.
But another consideration is perhaps even more
disturbing: The international debate and scare on the
use of depleted uranium weapons in the Balkans have
proven yet again that the international community and
public opinion deem that not all human lives are worth
the same.
The West is rightly outraged by the 20 young lives of
soldiers prematurely ended by depleted uranium. But
who has until now moved a finger for the additional
2,000 cases of cancer, 75 per cent of which among
children, registered in Iraq annually, surpassing by
50 per cent the pre-Gulf War averages?
Baghdad has long denounced the atrocious effects of
depleted uranium bombs on its population, but
especially children, and said the number of congenital
deformities in infants had sharply increased since
Desert Storm.
When in 1998 Iraq first asked the United Nations to
conduct an official investigation on the impact of
depleted uranium weapons on water, the environment and
local communities, the US and Great Britain dismissed
its claims as baseless and unfounded.
Everyone should know that, if NATO troops shot some
31,000 and 10,800 depleted uranium ammunition rounds
in Kosovo and Bosnia, respectively, the destructive
power unleashed on Iraq, and especially southern
cities like Basra, has remained unmatched.
By admission of the Pentagon, US-led air strikes
dropped some 944,000 depleted uranium ammunition
rounds over Iraq.
More than a "syndrome," we would call the effects of
such fury an outright catastrophe.
On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Gulf War, we
believe that the public in the so-called "developed
world" needs to be informed, beyond governments' and
militaries' propaganda, about what really happened in
Iraq over those two months and the 10 years that
followed.
 

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From:            kevcross@...
Date sent:       Sun, 14 Jan 2001 12:43:43 -0500 (EST)

SPECIAL REPORT DEPLETED URANIUM

Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uranium/</A>

==================================
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Oak Ridge and its' industry minions
use supplanted activist organizations fabricating mysterious illness
directions to hide HF emission/toxic effects and nuclear human
experiment war crimes. Oak Ridge and other gas diffusion sites are
primarily Bhopal like chemical affected areas and secondarily a
Chernobyl like radiation affected area. Gas diffusion sites are also
affected with high coal power emissions and compounded with heavy
metal toxins and hundreds of other toxic exposure from the plants.
These exposures cause shortened longevity, impacted learning, and
produce a gullible population for political and industry profiting.
Gulf War affected have related fluoride toxic effects from nerve
gases. In common with GW and DOE gas diffusion ills are long term
halogen toxic insult via bioconcentration into the lymphatic system,
impairment of macrophages, and damage to mitochondria of cells
resulting in immune protection damage and resultant rise of viral,
bacterial, microplasma, and fungal cell damage.

In the new millenium, the truth will set all free to enter a kinder
and gentler time for environment and health.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_340000/340944.stm



Pentagon's man in uranium warning



By Environment Correspondent Alex Kirby
As debate intensifies over the use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons
in
the Balkan conflict, a former Pentagon adviser has come out against
them.


He is Dr Doug Rokke, a US health physicist who led the DU clean-up in
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq immediately after the Gulf War.


In 1994, Dr Rokke, an Army Reserve captain, was appointed director of
the Pentagon's DU project, a job he left in 1997.


He helped develop an education and training programme, and conducted
tests on DU explosives in the Nevada desert.


The Pentagon has confirmed that A-10 aircraft are using DU rounds in
the war with Serbia. They are extremely heavy, and are used for their
armour-piercing capability. Veterans from the 1991 conflict believe
DU, which is both radioactive and toxic, may help to explain the
existence of Gulf War Syndrome.


Levels of radioactivity


They point to reports from southern Iraq of much higher levels of
stillbirths, birth defects, leukaemia and other child cancers.




DU munitions are highly effective armour penetrators
But Nato says DU is no more dangerous than any other heavy metal. Its
spokesman, Major Dan Baggio, says a DU round contained about as much
uranium as would go into "a glow-in-the-dark type of watch".


And the Rand Corporation says its study of DU "found little
documented
evidence of adverse effects", from either radiation or toxicity.


It points out that DU is much less radioactive than natural uranium.


'Burning dust'


But Dr Rokke told BBC News Online it had been mislead by Major
Baggio.




What sort of Kosovo will the refugees return to?
He believes that Pentagon officials have made "a political decision
and are totally unwilling to recognise that there are health
consequences of the use of DU".


Dr Rokke says the force of the impact of a DU round converts much of
it into a spray of burning uranium dust. "Consequently, we have DU
dust which is a radioactive, heavy, metal poison on or within the
equipment", and it is scattered up to 25 or 50 metres away.


He says anyone who has inhaled or ingested this dust, or who has let
it enter a wound, will need immediate medical treatment.


A senior officer of the US Defense Nuclear Agency said in 1991 that
radiation from fragments and intact DU rounds was "a serious health
threat". He said there was "a possible exposure rate of 200 millirems
per hour on contact".


"The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's maximum limit ... is 100
millirems per year."

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Date sent:       Sat, 13 Jan 2001 12:14:03 -0800
From:            Michael Pugliese <debsian@...>
Subject:         Re: Depleted uranium
To:              kevcross@...

from npr
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/wesat/20010113.wesat.03.ram


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>From: "George Vithoulkas" <vithoulkasalon@...>
>To: asterion@..., pbein@...
>Subject: Depleted Uranium
>Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 11:28:57 +0200
>X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Jan 2001 09:28:57.0436 (UTC)
FILETIME=[6B7BD9C0:01C07E0C]
>
>Dear Friend,
>
>Finally the Greek mass media has waken up to the problem of DU but I
>am afraid that the "controlling forces" will shut it down  quite
>soon. I see an  urgent   need for   coordination of the actions of
>the different forums in Europe that are concerned with the DU problem
>and the pollution because of the bombs in Kossovo and Serbia .
>Otherwise  I am afraid that the serious actions against such crimes
>that should be taken  immediately  will be postponed and finally lost
>in a vast informational noise that can cause confusion and final
>paralysis.
>
>I would like to suggest some of the main or guiding   lines :
>
>1. The American military machine have caused a genocide that is going
>to affect for  generations the health of  the people living  in
>Kossovo and Serbia.
>
>2.These actions were taken without the consent of the United Nations
>or even the consent of the European countries that were drugged to
>this war without information, without knowing what was prepared on
>these levels by the American military machine.The European
>Governments is obvious that were taken by surprise.
>
>3.The American military machine undertook the initiative to pollute
>the area, but their political counterpart left over the governments
>of Europe to clear up the mess and to shoulder the consequences.  The
>mess was  created not only by the DU but also by the poisonous gasses
>released by the bombing of chemical factories.
>
>
>Therefore decisions for action should be taken
>
>1.To bring the heads of the military of USA as well as the state
>department people  with first and foremost Mrs. Magdalene Albright
>before a tribunal for war criminals for causing one of the biggest
>war crimes in the history of humanity.
>
>2.The European Governments should allow (and not try to cover up) the
> independent scientists who are investigating this matter , to bring
>out all the facts concerning the effects of this war   on the health
>of the people who  are going to live in these areas.
>
>3.European Governments should make clear to everybody (by allowing
>the  press to do its job)  that the humanistic reasons Magdalene
>Albright and her associates were professing in order to start this
>war, were totally hypocritical . The fact of the matter was that they
>turned to a  death place the area that they were supposed to protect
>for the return of  the refuges .
>
>4.This tragedy  will be a good excuse  for the European Governments
>to act hard against the protectionism of USA. If they loose this
>chance in vindicating the real culprit then the next move of the USA
>foreign policy will be not only  to divide Europe but also encourage
>them to go against each other in a new and even more deadly war.
>
>-------

Date sent:       Sun, 14 Jan 2001 08:24:59 -0800
From:            Peter Bein <pbein@...>


Folks,
Is there any way to take sworn testimonies from Gulf veterans? See
Davey's mssge below.

Davey, please join the list and post directly:
DU.WATCH-SUBSCRIBE@... to join  and
DU.WATCH-UNSUBSCRIBE@... to leave the list

Peter Bein
P.S. I'm forwarding personally to you, Davey, a piece that shows the
UK gov't docs on DU. It was circulated in the group already.


>Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 11:01:35 +0000 (GMT)
>From: davey garland <thunderelf@...>
>Subject: Re: DU Q from Nic Fleming
>To: Peter Bein <pbein@...>
>
>Peter,
>wonder if any one on the your list or yourself, might
>be to add some light. Was talking to a person
>yesterday who was a tank driver in the Britsh army
>1978-81, swears that tank crews inhis regiment then
>were told of the dangers of DU, or mini-nukes as they
>were termed, and especially the dangers of inhaling
>dust. I trust this source very well, as he's now a
>military historian, and not apt to distort the truth.
>So is there any more evidence to confirm this, which
>draws a conclusion that if so, then the british
>government knew of DU's effects hell of alot earlier.
>I'd appreciate any info on this.
>
>Also, as a request, does anyone know of any foundatons
>etc willing to fund research on "DU in the media", as
>I've been working on this subject as part of my
>Mphil/phd now for 18 months p/t, self-funded, (with
>many foundations, sadly not taking the issue seriously
>before)I'm based up here at lancaster university
>(UK)at the Centere forthe study of environmental
>change. So if any one could contact me, if they have
>any ideas, then that would be much appreciated.
>
>____________________________________________________________
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>Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk
>or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie
>


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From:            FluSem666@...
Date sent:       Sun, 14 Jan 2001 08:57:08 EST
Subject:         Help needed [D.U. WATCH]


Hi

In these last few days I have received well over 700 messages on the
DU subject.

With so much traffic I have misplaced the web address for the
manufacturers web site, you may have seen it somewhere. It gives a
cross section view of the 30mm DU rounds used by the A10 Warthog.

A journalist has a very good reason for wanting to see that site. I
stress, it is s very good reason indeed. Can someone please send it
to
me as a matter of great urgency. I am not in the habit of making such
requests and hope you can help with this very important matter. I am
just too overloaded to search all those messages, again!

Thank you

Angus Parker


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From:            "Boyle, Francis" <FBOYLE@...>
To:              Depleted Uranium Watch <DU.WATCH@...>
Copies to:       rrozoff@...
Subject:         RE: The Dirty War [D.U. WATCH]
Date sent:       Sun, 14 Jan 2001 07:43:36 -0500



all of this came out in that British TV 4 Documentary, The Dirty War,
aired in the Spring of 1994, followed by front-page headlines over in
the UK. It would later force a UK MOD spokesperson to admit that
there
is such a thing as The Gulf War Syndrome. I served as a consultant
and
am interviewed in there, along with my client and friend, Capt. Dr.
Yolanda Huet Vaughn, who was court-martialed for desertion for
refusing to participate in the war. She spent 8 months in Leavenworth
in medium security before i could get her out. During the filming of
the video i stated my opinion that the DU munitions were clearly
illegal and that those US and UK officials who had conducted this war
in this manner were war criminals. Eventually, on advice of their
Solicitors, TV 4 had to drop those comments for fear of a libel suit.
There is no First Amendment in the UK. And having studied British
libel law myself, I accepted the decision of their Solicitors and did
not believe this was a case of censorship. TV4 did the best job they
could. The documentary is still incredibly powerful despite the
deletions. I would encourage you all to get a copy. The producer's
name there was Tessa Shaw, TV4 London. fab.

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, Ill. 61820 USA
217-333-7954(voice)
217-244-1478(fax)
fboyle@...


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Documents Reveal Orchestrated Gulf War Cover-up by Presidential Panel
Senator Warren Rudman, RADM Alan Steinman Implicated in Emails,
Resignation Letters FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12, 2001 CONTACT:
PATRICK G. EDDINGTON (301) 585-4000, ext. 162 (Washington, D.C) -- A
former United States Senator and a retired Navy rear admiral
effectively orchestrated a de facto cover-up of potential chemical
and
other toxic exposures among Desert Storm veterans, according to
documents obtained by the National Gulf War Resource Center. The
previously undisclosed correspondence ---which includes email
messages
of senior Presidential Special Oversight Board (PSOB) staff members,
as well as the resignation letter of one PSOB staff scientist --
implicates former Republican Senator Warren Rudman and retired Rear
Admiral Paul Steinman as key figures in the effort to squash any
serious inquiry into the Pentagon’s handling of Gulf War Illnesses,
run by Dr. Bernard Rostker, head of the Office of the Special
Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses (OSAGWI). In an email exchange
between Dr. Vinh Cam -- a cellular immunotoxicologist and PSOB Board
member -- and Michael Naylon -- PSOB’s former executive director --
Naylon attempts to pressure Dr. Cam into concurring with the PSOB’s
final report, which praised the Pentagon’s Gulf War investigations
and
concluded that Gulf War veterans suffered from stress, not wartime
toxic exposures. "Senator Rudman expressed his preference that you
agree with the report. As you did not submit dissenting remarks, we
will proceed as if you are in agreement with the report," Naylon
wrote
in a November 21, 2000 email to Cam. "If you do not agree, you should
notify the Chairman, Senator Rudman." In a November 15, 2000 email to
Cam, Rudman gave Cam less than 72 hours to file any dissent. "If you
wish to offer dissenting remarks, they will be included in the Final
Report. I would prefer, Dr. Cam, that you agree with our report.
Please indicate to me, within 72 hours, your position as to the Final
Report. If you have dissenting remarks, they must be submitted within
72 hours [5:00pm EST on November 18, 2000]" In her November 24 reply
to Naylon, Cam wrote that she thought "the clock for dissenting
remarks would start after the review of the revised draft final
report
as you had suggested... Where things stand now, I DON’T CONCUR with
the report." Although Cam’s remarks were ultimately included in the
final report, Rudman attacked Cam’s professionalism in his response,
denying her allegation that the PSOB had merely acted as an extension
of OSAGWI. The September 21, 2000 resignation letter of PSOB staff
scientist Dr. William H. Taylor, Ph.D. tells a far different story.
Addressing his remarks directly to PSOB Chairman Rudman, Taylor
reminded Rudman of his own efforts to steer the PSOB to conclusions
favorable to OSAGWI. "Mr. Naylon reported to PSOB staff in a staff
meeting on August 24, 2000 that he and Mr. Kaplan visited with you on
August 22, 2000. He stated that you provided guidance to them
concerning what you would like to see in the PSOB final report. Mr.
Naylon prepared a written summary of that meeting. In that document,
Mr. Naylon indicates that you wish to state in the PSOB final report
that ‘OSAGWI was ‘intensely focused,’ ‘DoD and OSAGWI get an A for
effort,’ and ‘Bouquet for Rostker by name! Per WBR’...I feel obliged
to tell you that I strongly disagree with your position concerning
the
quality of OSAGWI’s effort." Taylor’s four-page letter contains a
litany of OSAGWI’s analytical and methodological shortcomings, as
well
as several documented instances of censorship of PSOB staff analysts’
conclusions by PSOB’s executive director. "OSAGWI selectively ignored
evidence that it did uncover, and repeatedly showed to PSOB staff an
unwillingness to investigate leads that suggested a conclusion
contrary to its assessment," Taylor wrote. "In short, OSAGWI’s
investigations are biased and the conclusions and assessments that
OSAGWI states in its reports cannot be considered credible." Taylor
also highlighted PSOB executive director Michael Naylon’s efforts to
censor any PSOB staff comments that were critical of OSAGWI or
Rostker. "[Naylon’s] ‘depejoratizing’ of our reports to the Board
went
into full swing in the spring of 1999 after we presented some of our
analytical findings publicly, thus provoking Dr. Rostker’s anger.
Consequently, any suggestion by the analysts that OSAGWI’s (or DoD’s)
work was inadequate, and ay suggestion that OSAGWI’s evidence
supported a contrary assessment to that which OSAGWI reached
(particularly concerning the presence of chemical warfare agents),
was
removed from our reports before they left the PSOB office." Rear
Admiral Steinman, another PSOB Board member, also pressured Taylor
and
other PSOB staff members to toe the OSAGWI line. "RADM Steinman also
helped to squash discussion about OSAGWI’s work. PSOB analysts met
with him in July 1999 to discuss the 11th Marines case narrative. At
that meeting and again when considering the Al Jaber Air Base, and
The
Cement Factory, RADM Steinman made it clear that he did not want to
hear what we thought of OSAGWI’s evidence," Taylor noted, adding that
Steinman charged that the PSOB analysts’ contrary evaluations were
"conspiracy theories." Dr. Cam’s email exchanges with Michael Naylon
and Dr. Taylor’s resignation letter are being made public by NGWRC
today. "That a United States Senator and a flag-rank officer would
actively subvert a national investigation into Gulf War illnesses is
outrageous," said Patrick G. Eddington, NGWRC’s executive director.
"At a minimum, this represents a flagrant violation of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act, and quite possibly other statutes. We will
explore all legal avenues available to determine the full extent of
this cover up." The National Gulf War Resource Center is a nonprofit
advocacy agency serving the needs of the veteran and military
communities.

http://www.ngwrc.org/news/content/FriJan122116102001.asp

Documents Reveal Orchestrated Gulf War Cover-up by Presidential Panel

Senator Warren Rudman, RADM Alan Steinman Implicated in Emails,
Resignation Letters FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12, 2001 CONTACT:
PATRICK G. EDDINGTON (301) 585-4000, ext. 162 (Washington, D.C) -- A
former United States Senator and a retired Navy rear admiral
effectively orchestrated a de facto cover-up of potential chemical
and
other toxic exposures among Desert Storm veterans, according to
documents obtained by the National Gulf War Resource Center. The
previously undisclosed correspondence ---which includes email
messages
of senior Presidential Special Oversight Board (PSOB) staff members,
as well as the resignation letter of one PSOB staff scientist --
implicates former Republican Senator Warren Rudman and retired Rear
Admiral Paul Steinman as key figures in the effort to squash any
serious inquiry into the Pentagon’s handling of Gulf War Illnesses,
run by Dr. Bernard Rostker, head of the Office of the Special
Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses (OSAGWI). In an email exchange
between Dr. Vinh Cam -- a cellular immunotoxicologist and PSOB Board
member -- and Michael Naylon -- PSOB’s former executive director --
Naylon attempts to pressure Dr. Cam into concurring with the PSOB’s
final report, which praised the Pentagon’s Gulf War investigations
and
concluded that Gulf War veterans suffered from stress, not wartime
toxic exposures. "Senator Rudman expressed his preference that you
agree with the report. As you did not submit dissenting remarks, we
will proceed as if you are in agreement with the report," Naylon
wrote
in a November 21, 2000 email to Cam. "If you do not agree, you should
notify the Chairman, Senator Rudman." In a November 15, 2000 email to
Cam, Rudman gave Cam less than 72 hours to file any dissent. "If you
wish to offer dissenting remarks, they will be included in the Final
Report. I would prefer, Dr. Cam, that you agree with our report.
Please indicate to me, within 72 hours, your position as to the Final
Report. If you have dissenting remarks, they must be submitted within
72 hours [5:00pm EST on November 18, 2000]" In her November 24 reply
to Naylon, Cam wrote that she thought "the clock for dissenting
remarks would start after the review of the revised draft final
report
as you had suggested... Where things stand now, I DON’T CONCUR with
the report." Although Cam’s remarks were ultimately included in the
final report, Rudman attacked Cam’s professionalism in his response,
denying her allegation that the PSOB had merely acted as an extension
of OSAGWI. The September 21, 2000 resignation letter of PSOB staff
scientist Dr. William H. Taylor, Ph.D. tells a far different story.
Addressing his remarks directly to PSOB Chairman Rudman, Taylor
reminded Rudman of his own efforts to steer the PSOB to conclusions
favorable to OSAGWI. "Mr. Naylon reported to PSOB staff in a staff
meeting on August 24, 2000 that he and Mr. Kaplan visited with you on
August 22, 2000. He stated that you provided guidance to them
concerning what you would like to see in the PSOB final report. Mr.
Naylon prepared a written summary of that meeting. In that document,
Mr. Naylon indicates that you wish to state in the PSOB final report
that ‘OSAGWI was ‘intensely focused,’ ‘DoD and OSAGWI get an A for
effort,’ and ‘Bouquet for Rostker by name! Per WBR’...I feel obliged
to tell you that I strongly disagree with your position concerning
the
quality of OSAGWI’s effort." Taylor’s four-page letter contains a
litany of OSAGWI’s analytical and methodological shortcomings, as
well
as several documented instances of censorship of PSOB staff analysts’
conclusions by PSOB’s executive director. "OSAGWI selectively ignored
evidence that it did uncover, and repeatedly showed to PSOB staff an
unwillingness to investigate leads that suggested a conclusion
contrary to its assessment," Taylor wrote. "In short, OSAGWI’s
investigations are biased and the conclusions and assessments that
OSAGWI states in its reports cannot be considered credible." Taylor
also highlighted PSOB executive director Michael Naylon’s efforts to
censor any PSOB staff comments that were critical of OSAGWI or
Rostker. "[Naylon’s] ‘depejoratizing’ of our reports to the Board
went
into full swing in the spring of 1999 after we presented some of our
analytical findings publicly, thus provoking Dr. Rostker’s anger.
Consequently, any suggestion by the analysts that OSAGWI’s (or DoD’s)
work was inadequate, and ay suggestion that OSAGWI’s evidence
supported a contrary assessment to that which OSAGWI reached
(particularly concerning the presence of chemical warfare agents),
was
removed from our reports before they left the PSOB office." Rear
Admiral Steinman, another PSOB Board member, also pressured Taylor
and
other PSOB staff members to toe the OSAGWI line. "RADM Steinman also
helped to squash discussion about OSAGWI’s work. PSOB analysts met
with him in July 1999 to discuss the 11th Marines case narrative. At
that meeting and again when considering the Al Jaber Air Base, and
The
Cement Factory, RADM Steinman made it clear that he did not want to
hear what we thought of OSAGWI’s evidence," Taylor noted, adding that
Steinman charged that the PSOB analysts’ contrary evaluations were
"conspiracy theories." Dr. Cam’s email exchanges with Michael Naylon
and Dr. Taylor’s resignation letter are being made public by NGWRC
today. "That a United States Senator and a flag-rank officer would
actively subvert a national investigation into Gulf War illnesses is
outrageous," said Patrick G. Eddington, NGWRC’s executive director.
"At a minimum, this represents a flagrant violation of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act, and quite possibly other statutes. We will
explore all legal avenues available to determine the full extent of
this cover up." The National Gulf War Resource Center is a nonprofit
advocacy agency serving the needs of the veteran and military
communities.

Sunday Telegraph
January 14, 2001

MoD secretly tested troops for depleted uranium
poisoning
By David Cracknell and Rajeev Syal
 
THE Ministry of Defence was secretly testing for
radiation poisoning among British soldiers just months
before it sent troops to Kosovo with suspect depleted
uranium weapons, The Telegraph can reveal.
Internal documents show that research by scientists at
the military research centre in Porton Down was
"ongoing" in November 1998, well before the start of
the Balkans conflict. They show that the secret
research had been going on for at least six months
before then, with references to classified files on
the depleted uranium held at the MoD dating back to
May that year.
At the time, the MoD was refusing to launch an
official screening programme for veterans of the 1991
Gulf War who feared that their illnesses were caused
by radiation poisoning from expended DU munitions. The
disclosure goes further than last week's leaks of
internal MoD documents that showed only that officers
recognised four years ago that there was a risk of
developing lung, lymph and brain cancer from depleted
uranium shells.
The MoD was so concerned that the documents obtained
by The Telegraph had been leaked that they raided the
houses of two Gulf War veterans who they alleged had
stolen them. Yesterday the MoD refused to comment on
the leaked documents.
Iain Duncan Smith, the shadow defence secretary, said:
"The MoD must make a further statement on the issue of
depleted uranium. The fact that they were carrying out
secret testing of troops before Kosovo is further
evidence of how this episode has been shrouded in
secrecy and terribly mishandled." Telegraph has
obtained a copy of minutes of a meeting of the MoD's
Gulf Veterans' Medical Assessment Programme (GVMAP) on
November 9, 1998, which say - contrary to official
statements at the time - that "research was also
ongoing on depleted uranium and NAPS [nerve agent
protection tablets]".
The document goes on to refer to work being done at
the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency at Porton
Down into suspected poisoning of troops. The minutes
also list five hitherto classified files held in the
MoD's database, including a document entitled: "DU
testing of UK Gulf Veterans". The Tories last night
demanded that these documents also be made public by
the MoD.
At the time the documents were compiled, the MoD was
refusing requests by Gulf War veterans for depleted
uranium testing. Former soldiers who complained of
mystery illnesses after the conflict had to pay for
their own private tests to be done in Canada. It was
only in September 1999, after the Kosovo conflict was
over and nearly a decade after the end of the Gulf
War, that the MoD finally relented to pressure and
agreed to retest a small number of veterans for
depleted uranium.
Ministers last week staged a dramatic U-turn and
relented to pressure for an official, full-scale
screening programme for depleted uranium for troops
who had served in either the Balkans or the Gulf. It
emerged yesterday that the Royal Navy is phasing out
depleted uranium ammunition used on some of its
warships after the American manufacturers stopped
producing the shells because of safety concerns.
The Telegraph has also learnt that nearly 100 Gulf
veterans are to sue the MoD over their exposure to
depleted uranium, in a test case that could cost tens
of millions of pounds. Peter Bright, a senior partner
at solicitors Nash and Co, based in Plymouth, said the
proceedings will be issued in the light of recent
evidence that shows the MoD had full knowledge of the
risks of depleted uranium.
He represents veterans who claim they were exposed to
depleted uranium in the Gulf while serving in
Operation Desert Storm. Some of the veterans also saw
service in the Balkans. Around half were medics in the
field, who claim that they were exposed to the
materials as they tended Iraqi and British soldiers.
www.telegraph.co.uk.

Date sent:       Sun, 14 Jan 2001 10:27:45 +0000 (GMT)
From:            davey garland <thunderelf@...>



In relation to the Britsh government having evidence
on the effects of DU on servicemen prior to the gulf
war, I had an interesting meeting yersterday with an
ex-tank driver, operating 1978-81, who swears that
tank crews in his regiment were warned about Du, or
"mini-nukes" as they were termed, and specificially
the dust factor was highlighted. Do we have any more
verification on this, anyone out there shed any more
light. I have great faith in my source, only that he
might of confused it with something else, but as he's
now a military historian and accademic I trust his
preciceness. ANything to add folks.

Also if anyone out there knows of any foundations who
would be interested in funding research on "DU in the
media" (which I've been working on for my mphil for
the last 18months, self-funded, then any advice would
be much appreciated.
cheers
Davey Garland

http://www.sundayherald.com/news/newsi.hts?section=News+Focus&story_id
=13698

The Sunday Herald (Scotland)
14 January 2001

  Depleted Uranium: The horrific legacy of Basra
Iraq: Children are born grotesquely deformed and
cancer is rife, but the West will still not
investigate. What has it got to hide? asks Ron McKay
Publication Date: Jan 14 2001
FORTY-EIGHT hours after the Gulf war ended, an Iraqi
Republican Guard tank division was making for its base
outside Basra along a narrow causeway over Lake Hamar.
It was one of five agreed exit routes for the defeated
army to take in its retreat. The ground war had lasted
just 100 hours and there had been 79 American deaths,
eight of them among the 24th Division, commanded by
General Barry McCaffrey, whose armour and ordnance was
lying about three miles away from the causeway.
Suddenly, and over-riding a warning from the division
operations officer, McCaffrey ordered an assault on
the column. Later he would claim that his troops had
been fired on by the retreating Iraqis, which is hotly
denied by the Republican Guard commander. Apache
attack helicopters, Bradley fighting vehicles and
artillery units pummelled the helpless column for
hours. It was, as McCaffrey later commented, "one of
the most astounding scenes of destruction I have ever
participated in."
More than 10 years later, the destruction can still be
seen. What is left of the division pokes rustily from
the sand over several square miles. It is one of the
world's largest junkyards. And it could also be said
to be the epicentre of the controversy over depleted
uranium. DU shells and rockets had ripped into the
column in the most prolonged use of this ordnance on
any one spot in the history of their invention.
Six months ago, when I visited the site of what has
become known as the Battle of Rumaila, with a
scientist carrying a Geiger counter, the needle
threatened to burst out of its casing as he repeatedly
ran it over sand and wreckage, gun barrels, tank parts
and spent DU detritus. Which may, of course, prove
nothing.
Dr Jawad Khadim al-Ali is a British-trained doctor and
a member of the Royal College of Physicians. He works
in Basra's main hospital. He showed me his maps of
cancer and leukaemia clusters which coincide with the
most intensive use of DU weapons in the war. Again,
connection could be coincidental.
The doctor also showed me the book of horrors kept by
the medical staff - photographs of the grotesque,
mis-shapen, stillborn children born in the hospital.
There are kids with no brains, some with one eye in
the middle of the head, others with extra limbs. It is
the most diverse collection of malformations and
deformities I have ever seen - and, I suspect, any
doctor anywhere outside of southern Iraq.
According to Dr Jawad there has been a four-fold
increase in cancers in the area where the use of
uranium-tipped weapons was most severe. Two in a
hundred children in Basra are now being born with
birth defects. If could be, of course, as my old pal
Doug Henderson has alluded, propaganda. When he was a
defence minister he poured doubt on any increase in
cancers and birth defects in southern Iraq. "The
government has not seen any peer-reviewed
epidemiological research data on this population to
support these claims ," he said.
There is none, of course . Because the World Health
Organisation, invited by Iraq to start research into
the cancers, was persuaded not to do so by the British
and US. And a group of Royal Society scientists tasked
by the British authorities to investigate the local
effects of DU declined to visit Iraq.
Dr Kamil Mahdi, of the Institute of Arab and Islamic
Studies at the University of Exeter, attended a
seminar last February at the Foreign Office where the
then head of the Middle East section said that the
ministry was going to cooperate with the Department
for International Development and the WHO on research
into the health effect of DU in southern Iraq. "When I
probed Ron White of DFID he said that it would only
support research into the health effects of the Iraqi
regime's use of chemical weapons in Halabja in 1988,"
he says now.
The Basra hospitals are full of young people suffering
from horrendous tumours, most of them not even born
when the Gulf war ended. Most are largely untreated
because of the shortage of medicines, drips,
anti-coagulants and basic life-saving equipment.
British and US ministers are fond of quoting that
there is no embargo on food or medicines, but the UN
sanctions committee in New York continually delays
essential supplies .
The patients lie on sheetless beds because detergents
are banned on the grounds that they can be put to dual
use - a crude bomb manufactured from a box of Persil,
presumably. One of those patients was Ali Mohammed, a
soldier who escaped the initial carnage of Rumaila.
His belly was distended from a massive tumour, and one
testicle had been removed. Dr Jawad held up his hands.
"There's nothing we can do. Maybe if we had the drugs
É maybe if we had caught it earlier."
Across the hot room - the air-conditioning equipment
has long since ground to a halt, replacement parts
sanctioned - eight-year old Hassan is lying comatose,
blood spots on his pallid cheeks a tell-tale sign of
intestinal bleeding. He came from Kerbala, close to
Iraqi military bases blitzed with DU during the war. I
found out later that it took him about three weeks to
bleed to death.
Perhaps the upsurge in cancers is a by-product of the
burning oilfields set alight by Saddam's armies, or
from the direct hits on his chemical weapons
factories. But there is a more likely explanation
lying on the sands, in the water table and in the
blood . Gulf war veterans know it. Other European
governments suspect it. It is just Britain and the US
who refuse to even properly investigate.
These victims are Iraqis, of course, Muslims in a
distant and hostile country. They are not Europeans or
Caucasians . But what is happening in Basra is likely
to be mimicked in Belgrade . It's only losers, of
course, who go on trial for war crimes.

[lenthy forward info snipped]
>From: rrozoff@... (Rick Rozoff)
>Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 09:02:39 -0600 (CST)

>Dear List Members,
>                                Francis's concerns about the
>orchestrated (from the government angle) press blackout on DU deaths
>are well take. Check out the major English-language press wire
>services: Not one word on DU or the Balkan Syndrome in the past
>twenty four hours on AP. Reuters, UPI, BBC or Agence France Presse.
>Instead, today's New York Times and International Herald Tribune
>(both newspapers of record)  have major stories of the
>denial/minimization sort. Barely short of affirming that depleted
>uranium is good for one. This is phase two of the NATO-run
>propapanda/disinformation/blackout strategy. Phase one was conducted
>from March-June of 1999, replete with hysterical assertions of Kosovo
>killings (William Cohen: 100,000; David Sheffer two days later:
>200,000) and adamant denials of bombings of civilans and civilian
>targets by NATO. It's a revelation even to me, though, how thoroughly
>compliant the corporate, ostensibly independent, media are in these
>matters. All the more reason for us to employ all outlets and
>contacts we have to get this story out, and to network with all
>peace, anti-nuclear, anti-Iraq sanctions, Vieques solidarity and
>disarmament activists to make common cause against this scourge and
>the system behind it. Thanks, Rick
>

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>DEPLETED URANIUM DANGERS EVEN THEN. From: "john jay"
><ppdscat@...> To: "STOP NATO: XNO PASARAN!"
><STOPNATO@...>,
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>CC: LES PRIEST <leslie.lawrence@...>
>
>
>
> The US government document presented below is a key proof that:
>
>
>> 1. DU is used in civilian aircraft to date.
>> 2. The US authorities knew that DU is a dangerous radioactive and
>> toxic material in 1984:
>>
>>
>>>viz...
>>> "The main hazard associated with depleted uranium
>>> is the harmful effect the material could have if it
>>> enters the body. If particles are inhaled or digested,
>>> they can be chemically toxic and cause a significant
>>>"
>>>
>
>>
>The FAA document ends by stating that all protective clothing used in
>crash ""
> and disposed of accordingly.
>
> The document was reported on by journalist Craig Roberts and
> disclosed in a casual e-mail on a list-serve discussion group on
> january 11. Publisher Mike Ruppert saw the e-mail and immediately
> notified Gulf War Vet Spokesperson Joyce Riley and French
> documentarians Audrey Brohy and Gerard Ungerman. Both have found the
> existence of the FAA document to be
>"" to the official U.S.
>
> Piotr (Peter)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kevcross@... [mailto:kevcross@...]
> Sent: January 11, 2001 11:51 PM
> To: [snip]
> Subject: + URGENT_Depleted Uranium in Aircraft
>
>
> EXCUSE CROSS POSTING - PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY -- Kevin.
> =================================
> Right now on http://www.coasttocoastam.com radio talk show Joyce
> Riley is discussing DU and just directed listeners to the following
> on Mike Ruppert's posting at The Wilderness Publications
> http://www.copvcia.com ================ + ================ Depleted
> Uranium in Aircraft http://www.copvcia.com/du.htm
>
> FTW SUBSCRIBER BULLETIN 01-01
> 1984 FAA MEMO: DEPLETED URANIUM USED COMMONLY IN AIRCRAFT
> MANUFACTURE POSES SERIOUS HAZARD TO CRASH INVESTIGATORS (c)
> COPYRIGHT 2001. FROM THE WILDERNESS PUBLICATIONS. ALL RIGHTS
> RESERVED. www.copvcia.com. 818-788-8791. 01/11/01 - As the scandal
> regarding the 1999 U.S. use of depleted uranium (DU) rounds in
> Kosovo spreads and re-ignites controversy about the Gulf War
> Syndrome that has damaged the health of thousands of
>"" has today obtained a copy of a 1984 FAA
> Advisory Circular - still in effect - that shows that DU has been in
> use as a component in aircraft manufacture for years and that the
> U.S. government has always treated DU as a hazardous material in
> full awareness of health risks it presents. The existence of this
> advisory bulletin belies the official U.S. Government position that
> it was largely unaware of health risks connected with DU and raises
> questions about U.S. prioritization of the relative value of human
> lives as it becomes increasingly apparent that the United States
> Government chose to not advise NATO allies in Kosovo or Iraq, or
> even certain members of its own armed forces of known dangers
> connected with DU exposure. Moreover, the bulletin specifically
> indicates that U.S. aircraft manufacturers like McDonnell-Douglas,
> now owned by Boeing, routinely posted health advisory and safety
> precautions in aircraft manuals as far back as 16 years ago. This
> was, according to the FAA, a result of cadmium-plated DU
>"ailerons, rudders and elevators on
>"
>"Avoiding or
> Minimizing Encounters With Aircraft Equipped With Depleted Uranium
>" The two-page memo was
> written to warn FAA crash site investigators that, as a result of an
> air crash, DU weights in various parts of the aircraft might have
> had their
>"While the depleted
> uranium normally poses no danger, it is to be handled with caution.
> The main hazard associated with depleted uranium is the harmful
> effect the material could have if it enters the body. If particles
> are inhaled or digested, they can be chemically toxic and cause a
> significant and
>"
> FAA spokesman Les Dorr today confirmed for FTW that the 1984
> Advisory was valid and still in effect.
>"... only
> 'depleted' uranium is used, which means it has been processed to
> remove most of its uranium 235, the most highly radioactive form
> used in
>"
> The 1984 memorandum, written by FAA Director of Airworthiness, M.C.
> Beard, and circulated to all FAA crash site investigators, ends with
> a list of safety precautions for investigators at crash sites
> including protective gloves, eye protection, respirators and other
> protective clothing. The memorandum ends by stating that all such
> protective
>""
> and disposed of accordingly.
> A full copy of the FAA memorandum, including FAA verification of its
> authenticity can be found at the end of this document. While the
> advisory itself does not specifically list which military or
> commercial aircraft are currently equipped with DU components FTW
> has contacted corporate spokespersons for the Boeing Aircraft
> Corporation in Seattle. As of this writing no response has been
> received. The current revelation, along with developing stories on
> Sarin Gas and CNN's wrongful termination of producers April Oliver
> and Jack Smith as well as the U.S. Government's insistence on the
> use of the fungicide fusarium oxysporum in Colombia are strong
> indicators that charges that the Unites States has assumed an
> arrogant and careless posture with regard to human life are well
> founded. As the major media ignore or downplay the damning evidence
> of American guilty foreknowledge in the use of DU, European media
> and European military allies increasingly wonder whether the U.S.
> has assumed an Imperial posture in its dealings with the rest of the
> world. This would include its so-called NATO allies who were
> reportedly not warned of the dangers of DU use in either the Middle
> East or the Balkans. Such questions also give new credibility to
> continuing claims from U.S. Gulf War veterans that they were used as
> Guinea Pigs in a conflict where DU was a main staple of the U.S.
> military machine. The FAA Advisory Circular was reported on by
> author journalist Craig
>"")and disclosed in a casual e-mail on a
> list-serve discussion group this morning. FTW Publisher Mike Ruppert
> saw the e-mail and immediately notified Gulf War Vet Spokesperson
> Joyce Riley and French documentarians Audrey Brohy and Gerard
> Ungerman whose
>"" will
> air throughout Europe on January 17. Both have done extensive
> research on DU and both found the existence of the FAA memorandum to
> be
>"" to the official U.S. positions on the subject.
> A more complete story will be published in the January 31, issue of
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> Uranium Contamination Sealed Off in Kosovo
>
> PRISTINA, Kosovo, Yugoslavia, January 11, 2001 (ENS) - More than 18
> months
>after NATO stopped firing shells containing depleted uranium on Serb
>troops in Kosovo, civilians there are being protected from possible
>ill effects from the ammunition.
>
> The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)
> today
>began posting signs at sites known to have been targeted by shells
>containing depleted uranium.
>
>
> UNMIK chief Dr. Bernard Kouchner watches a demonstration by Italian
> troops
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THE INDEPENDENT

Sick, bleeding and losing nails: the girl who played
with Nato uranium

By Robert Fisk in Bratunac, Bosnia


14 January 2001

Sladjana Sarenac remembers the pieces of a
depleted-uranium bomb that she picked up outside her
home in Sarajevo. "It glittered and I did what all
children do," she says. "I was six years old and I
pretended to make cookies out of the bits of metal and
the soil in the garden. Then I hid the pieces on a
shelf because my puppy Tina was playing with it."

Sladjana is now 12 and has been seriously ill ever
since. Her nails have repeatedly fallen out of her
fingers and toes. She has suffered internal bleeding,
constant diarrhoea and vomiting. When her Serb parents
fled their home in the Sarajevo suburb of Hadjici
after the Dayton Accord, she took her dog with her. It
had three puppies. Then Tina died. Then the puppies.
Sladjana has a desperately pale face and tired eyes.

Everyone tells her she will be all right. I tell her
that too. Sladjana's parents spend 450 German marks a
month (£140) for her medicines – she takes 2mg of
Benesedin twice a day, 600mg of magnesium tablets once
a day – but the family are too poor to pay the bills.
In their refuge home in Bratunac the electricity has
been cut off. The landlady wants them out. And,
needless to say, no one from Nato has bothered to
enquire about Sladjana's mysterious sickness.

Nato's raids followed the shelling of the Sarajevo
marketplace and the Serb massacre of thousands of
Muslim refugees in and around Srebrenica. Sladjana did
not see the American A-10 aircraft that dropped the
bombs around her home in the summer of 1995, including
the round that exploded on her family's small farm.
She was hiding downstairs. But her father Jovo watched
the planes, so low that he could see the pilot of each
aircraft as they dived. "The houses in our street were
very close to a [Serb] army base which made the
bombing very intense," he says. "From 30 August to 15
September 1995, we not only got Nato bombings but also
shells fired by the [Nato] Rapid Reaction Force on
Mount Igman. The pilots were breaking the sound
barrier and Sladjana never slept."

Sladjana's sickness yet again places a heavy onus upon
Nato to disclose all it knows about depleted uranium
munitions and to start an immediate investigation
among Bosnian Serbs from Hadjici about how those
closest to the bombings in 1995 became so frequently
the victims of cancer and leukaemia. Nato has already
acknowledged that ingestion of DU particles in the
immediate aftermath of a bomb explosion can have a
serious effect on health. Here are civilians who
clearly were only metres away from DU explosions who
are suffering a devastating incidence of cancer, who
would willingly speak to Nato investigators, but who
Nato has not made the slightest effort to talk to.

Jovo and his wife, Sretanka – and Sladjana herself –
believe that her fascination with the bomb parts was
her undoing. "She was playing with them like all
children do," Sretanka says. "Out of curiosity, we all
went to see what it looked like after the bombings. We
went into the fields where the craters were. Then in
the middle of October Sladjana had this kind of yellow
sand under the nails on her hands and toes. Then the
skin round the nails became red and it hurt her a lot.
She was upset, crying a lot, vomiting and suffering
diarrhoea."

That's when Sladjana began her calvary of hospitals; a
clinic in Sarajevo, a clinic in Bratunac, medical
examinations in Belgrade. Sretanka produces a wad of
fading, thin carbon copies of typed hospital reports.
In a hospital at Blazuj, she was given two-days of
blood transfusions. Doctors told her she had somehow
been irradiated. Her fingernails and toenails fell
out. She spent 30 hours in a coma. "In the early
stages, we didn't think it was anything to do with the
bombing," her father says. "Now we are aware of the
kind of bombs that were fired and of what happened to
other people from Hadjici." Up to 300 men, women and
children who lived close to the site of the bombings
in 1995 have died of cancers and leukaemia over the
past five years.

It does occur to me – though I do not say so – that
there are doctors aplenty in S-For, the Nato force now
controlling Bosnia. And that those doctors must know
all about depleted-uranium munitions and its risks. I
have a feeling they will not be visiting the dark
house in Bratunac where Sladjana lives.

The Sunday Times

January 14 2001 BRITAIN


Gulf war file gave uranium warning



Report excerpts
WARNINGS that depleted uranium (DU) from weapons used
in the Gulf war posed serious health risks have been
revealed in leaked documents from the government's
adviser on nuclear safety, writes Jonathon Carr-Brown.


The Atomic Energy Authority (AEA) prepared a risk
assessment and calculated that, if all the DU dust
used was inhaled, up to 500,000 people could
"theoretically" die. It admitted that this could not
happen in practice, but added: "It does indicate a
significant problem."

The paper was sent to Royal Ordnance, the military's
principal ammunition supplier, by AEA Technology, part
of the Atomic Energy Authority, which advises on
nuclear issues.

Last week Geoff Hoon, the defence secretary, repeated
the government's position that DU ammunition is safe.
However, the AEA document and others show the risks
have been known for at least a decade.

Sean Rusling, from the Gulf Veterans Association,
said: "There is now too much documentary evidence for
the government to ignore. The precautionary approach
demands we stop using these weapons as they clearly
cause indiscriminate damage to health - and that's
been known about since they invented DU munitions."

The paper, marked "restricted", calculates that at
least 5,000 tank rounds were fired by the US alone
during the Gulf war. This would mean 50,000lb of DU
would have been left on the battlefied either in
shrapnel or dust.

Using formulas from the International Committee of
Radiological Protection, it calculates the maximum
deaths possible and warns of "potential hazards" from
the possible "spread of radioactive and toxic
contamination as a result of firing in battle".

Another section states: "Inhalation of airborne DU
dust particles can lead to unacceptable body burdens
and manufacturers of DU munitions take precautions to
ensure that their staff are not exposed to undue risk
for this reason."

DU shells flare when they are fired, leaving a vapour
trail of radioactive dust along the shell's
trajectory. Once the shell hits its target, the DU is
reduced, under extreme temperatures, to a fine cloud
of low-level radioactive dust.

The "threat report" was distributed among personnel at
Royal Ordnance, the Ministry of Defence and sent to
the UK's ambassador in Kuwait.

A covering letter accompanying the report, written by
Paddy Bartholomew, a business development manager,
says: "The whole subject of the contamination of
Kuwait is emotive and thus must be dealt with in a
sensitive manner. It is necessary to inform the Kuwait
government of the problem in a useful way."


Ray Bristow, a Gulf war veteran, was last night
prevented from travelling to Iraq when the Foreign
Office refused to allow his chartered plane to leave
Britain. Bristow wanted to see the alleged effects of
DU on children in the south of Iraq.
********

Extracts from "threat report" compiled by the UK's
Atomic Energy Agency after the Gulf War to assess
impact of using Depleted Uranium shells.

"An accurate figure for the quantity of DU fired is
difficult to acquire. A best estimate is that the US
tanks fired more than 5000 DU rounds, US aircraft many
10s of thousands and UK tanks fired a small number of
DU rounds. The tank ammunition alone will amount to
greater than 50,000lbs of DU, which is equivalent to
approoximately 360 GBq of radioactivity....If the tank
inventory of DU was inhlaed, the latest International
Committee of Radiological Protection (ICRP) risk
factor of 5 x 10 (-2) per Sv calculates 500,000
potential deaths. Obviously this theorectical figure
is not realistic, however it does indicate a
significant problem."

"Inhalation of air borne DU dust particles can lead to
unacceptable body burdens and manufacturers of DU
munitions take precautions to ensure that their staff
are not exposed to undue risk for this reason."

"The limit of intake for members of the public [of DU]
is less than 2.2 x 10h 3g in one year and this could
easily be exceeded if special arrangements are not
made. This would equate to a radioactive doese of ImSv
per year, the limit that has been proposed by the
ICRP. Exceeding the does puts the public at risk."


Letter from Paddy Bartholomew, Business Development
Manager, Defence, at AEA Industrial Technology
(commercial arm of the UK's Atomic Energy Agency) to
J.Y Sanders at Royal Ordnance dated 30 April 1991.
Marked UK Restricted

"The whole subject of contamination of Kuwait is
emotive and thus must be dealt with in a sensitive
manner. It is necessary to inform the Kuwait
Government of the problem in a useful way and this Mr
Alastair Parker, Regional Marketing Directorate1,
Defence Export Services has suggested is probably best
done in conjunction with the UK Ambassador in Kuwait"


Extract of Memo from US Army Chemical Medical School
on Depleted Uranium Safety Training dated 18 August
1993 written by Col Robert G Claypool director of
Professional services

"When soldiers inhale or ingest DU dust, they incur a
potential increase in cancer risk. The magnitude of
that increase can be quantified (in terms of projected
day of life lost) if the DU intake is known (or can be
estimated)."

"Expected pysiological effects from exposure to DU
dust include possible increased risk of cancer (lung
or bone) and kidney damage."

"You are correct in your assessment that much of the
needed data on DU does not exist"


Extract of memo marked Secret from the Department of
the Navy outlining the need to make the Saudi Arabians
aware of the effect of DU weapons dated 8 September
1990.

"Additionally Maj Knipple related that the spent
rounds emit low level Alpha radiation which can be
washed off after contact, but prolonged exposure could
cause illness"

"In the meantime, all efforts should be made by the I
MEP to 'lay the cards on the table' to the Saudis on
the DU round radiation characteristics."


Report prepared for the US Army Production Base
Modernisation Activity, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey
on the pros and cons of using DU shells versus
Tungsten shells in the Gulf War dated July 1990.

Material Properties

DU:     Heavy metal, radioactive...
Tungsten:      Heavy metal, not radioactive ...

Combat

DU:      Exposure to military personnel may be greater
than those allowed in peacetime, and could be locally
significant on the battlefield. Cleanup of penetrators
and fragments, as well as impact site decontamination
may be required.

Public Relations

DU:      Public relations efforts are indicated, and
may not be effective due to the public's perception of
radioactivity. Fielding and combat activities present
the potential for adverse international reaction.

Tungsten:      Public relations efforts are not
needed.

Comment:      Increased costs can be expected for Du
public relations when compared to tungsten.

Potential Health Hazards

DU:      Low level alpha radiation emitter which is
linked to cancer when exposurers are internal,
chemical toxicity causing kidney damage. Health
hazards (i.e. uranium) have been extensively
investigated.

"It is our initial hypotheses that impacts to civilian
populations will not be significant from combat use
[of DU], including post combat impacts. However,
aerosol DU exposure to soldiers on the battlefield
could be significant with potential radiological and
toxicological effects. These health impacts may be
impossible to reliably quantify even with additional
detailed studies."


Internal memo from Defense Nuclear Agency dated March
1991

"Toxic war souvenirs, political furor and post
conflict clean-up (host nation agreement) are only
some of the issues tht must be addressed. Alpha
particles (uranium oxidants) from expended rounds is a
health concern but Beta particles from fragments and
intact rounds is a serious health threat, with a
possible exposure rate of 200 milliruds per hour on
contact."

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Saturday, January 13 4:17 AM SGT

Study says pesticides not ruled out as cause of Gulf
War illnesses
WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (AFP) -
Pesticides cannot be ruled out as a possible cause of
unexplained illnesses reported by many
veterans of the 1991 Gulf War, the Pentagon said
Friday, adding that further study was needed.

Troops were exposed to 64 different pesticides during
the war, including a number whose active
ingredient have been linked to symptoms similar to
those reported by some Gulf War veterans,
officials said.

"The bottom line we found, based on the scientific
literature, is that a potential role for some
pesticides cannot be ruled out in the undiagnosed
illnesses of some Gulf War veterans," said
Ross Anthony, a researcher who co-authored a
Pentagon-commissioned review of the scientific
literature by Rand, a think tank.

A Pentagon survey and interviews with veterans found
only a single case of acute pesticide
poisoning.

But it also found that soldiers overused pest strips,
used flea and tick collars that were
deemed "unsafe and illegal," and mishandled pesticide
sprays because of poor training.

Pest strips and pesticides sprayed outside living
quarters, mess tents and latrines contained
organophosphates, an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor
that is critical to nerve signaling. Other
pesticides used were carbamates, another
acetylcholinesterase inhibitor.

"We do find that acetycholyinesterase inhibitors do
present in the literature chronic symptoms
that have been reported by some Gulf War veterans,"
said Anthony.

"If you're exposed to that you do find symptoms that
are similar to those reported by Gulf War
veterans; you see muscle and joint pain, headaches,
cognitive problems and sleep disruptions,"
he said.

Other acetylcholinesterase inhibitors are sarin gas
and pyridostigmine bromide, the pills US
soldiers were given as a precaution against attack
with the nerve agent soman.

The survey found that army troops in the field tended
to use more personal pesticides and
pyridostigime bromide while at the same time being
exposed to more field pesticides.

Some investigators have suggested that interactions
among PB, insecticides and repellents may
contribute to undiagnosed illnesses in Gulf War
veterans.

The most commonly used repellent -- by more than 30
percent of the troops -- was DEETS, which
although judged to be safe is reported to enable other
chemicals to penetrate the skin more
easily.




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In a message dated 13/01/01 19:00:59 GMT Standard Time,
mirsvima@... writes:

<< Saturday, January 13 4:17 AM SGT

  Study says pesticides not ruled out as cause of Gulf War illnesses
  WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (AFP) - Pesticides cannot be ruled out as a
  possible cause of unexplained illnesses
reported by many veterans of the 1991 Gulf War, the Pentagon said
Friday, adding that further study was needed. >>

Hi
(I know this is off subject but I would like to respond to the posted
message. I will answer questions off list if need be.)

Regarding the above paragraph taken from a posting to
DU.WATCH@.... It can be taken as a prime example of everything
that is wrong with the official investigations of the Gulf War
Syndrome (GWS).

"Pesticides cannot be ruled out."
Very true, because for many veterans OP pesticides are without doubt
the primary reason for ill health. This is well documented and even
agreed by UK Ministry Of Defence (MOD) doctors. (Before they were told
to retract their diagnoses and tried!). The synergistic affect of OP's
with pyridostigmine bromide being particularly nasty. For more details
of this I strongly suggest you contact Jim Moss (CC), who on behalf of
the DOD conducted detailed laboratory investigations into this very
subject. Only to have his results removed and buried before they could
be published. He said all of this to a presidential commission.
Incidentally, the same refusal to accept truthful scientific endeavour
was why Dr Asaf Durakovic from the <A
HREF="http://www.umproj.org/">Uranium Medical Project</A> lost his job
with the VA.

" ... unexplained illnesses reported by many veterans of the 1991 Gulf
War .." This is a real hoot, under other circumstances it would be
very amusing. Terms such as unexplained, undiagnosed, ill defined or
even "mystery". Creep in evertime a spin doctor has his say, rather
than a qualified medical doctor. Certainly in the UK the only people
who do not accept the conection between the exposures of the Gulf War
and GULF WAR SYNDROME, are those who have something to loose once this
is taken to a court of law. There is no mystery, ill health is not
unexplained and there is little confusion as to what caused it. I will
explain.

Attached is a list if symptoms and illness accepted by the UK
government as resulting from Gulf War Service. The veteran who agreed
to have his WPA award braoadcast was sent to see 15+ doctors, who all
concur with the diagnosis. 90% of the very long list is shared by
several thousand UK vets and pensioned by the government accordingly.
There is more than sufficient epidemiological evidnece to support the
diagnosis GULF WAR SYNDROME. But all access to the official War
Pension Agency (WPA) files is restricted. I wonder why?

No research has ever been conducted using the database of diagnosed
illness held by the WPA. Only self assessment paper chases. If those
tasked with investigating the GULF WAR SYNDROME fail to look in the
right place, then true to plan, they will continually find nothing. A
tried and tested method of concealment.

The MOD and DOD spin doctors will have their say, sure in the
knowledge that there is no evidence to support the veterans claims. Of
course you now know how false and engineered such statements are. The
DU fiasco is clear evidence that a cover-up of the causes of GWS is
widespread.

Small Cell Carcinoma (used to be called oat cell carcinoma when I did
my histopathology training in the 1970's) and leukaemia are not
mystery, undiagnosed or unexplained illnesses.

It would be foolish of me to end this message giving the impression
that only DU and pesticides in conjunction with pyridostigmine
bromide, were the cause of GULF WAR SYNDROME. Particularly as between
then they only account for 40% of the symptoms, at best. By far the
most important causative agent was the enforced vaccination programme.
It resulted in widespread autoimmunity, randomly affecting any and all
of the body systems. There is a wealth of published data on that
subject too. Try this one first  <A
HREF="http://www.idealibrary.com/cgi-bin/links/citation/0014-4800/68/5
5"> exmp.1999.2295</A>

It is interesting to note, that even those veterans who were
vaccinated in readiness but never deployed, suffer from the symptoms
we all recognise as GULF WAR SYNDROME.

One last point, some very unlucky veterans suffer the autoimmunity
aspect of GWS together with the neurological damage due to the
pesticide/pyridostigamine brominde synergism. They have then tested
positive to DU poisoning and developted cancer. Unlucky, I would say
so.

Stay well

Angus Parker
========================
30 July 1999

Dear All

A fellow veteran has authorised me to broadcast the contents of his
War Pension award. I must stress that his name is being withheld by
request.

It will be of interest to our American brothers in arms that British
war pensions are only granted for those medical conditions, which have
been accepted as "due to service". The onus being on the War Pensions
Agency to disprove the claims of the soldier, but only if those claims
are made within seven years of service. The soldier in question lodged
his claim in 1994 having served as a member of the Territorial Army.
His only service to speak of was during the Gulf War.

Yours sincerely

G A Parker
NATIONAL GULF VETERANS AND FAMILIES ASSOCIATION
Registered as THE MM NATIONAL GULF VETERANS AND FAMILIES BENEVOLENT
ASSOCIATION Charity Number 1074867 PATRON: The Rt. Hon Earl Kitchener
of Khartoum Head Office - 4 Maspin Close, Kingswood, Kingston upon
Hull HU8 8LU
  Tel: 01482 833812 Fax: 01482 833816



Transcript as follows:

The accepted conditions
q Vaccination reaction 1991
q Allergic rash 1991
q Chronic fatigue syndrome
q Irritable bowel syndrome
q Signs and Symptoms of an Ill Defined Condition (This is the title of
a chapter in the ICD) q Anti thyroid microsomal antibodies q Back
strain 1986 q PTSD

The following conditions have been accepted as part and parcel of the
War Pensions Accepted Disablements. 1. Lethargy 2. Tiredness 3.
Headaches 4. Poor sleep 5. Muscle pains 6. Joint pains 7. Impaired
memory 8. Nightmares 9. Sweats 10. Bleeding PR (from arse) 11.
Feelings of parasthaesia arms and legs 12. Skin pigmentation and
ulcers 13. Muscle weakness 14. Breathing difficulties 15. Blackouts
16. Dizzy spells 17. Excessive perspiration 18. Stomach cramps 19.
Rashes 20. Mouth ulcers 21. Nasal infections 22. Dyspepsia 23.
Vomiting 24. Mood changes 25. Personality change 26. Haematuria 27.
Proteinuria 28. Renal impairment 29. Light sensitivity 30. Neck pains
31. Spinal and joint pains 32. Muscle fatigue including post-exertion
muscle fatigue 33. Muscle weakness including weakness right arm 34.
Stomach cramps and flatulence 35. Reduced lymphocyte sub-population
36. Raised ESR 37. Raised creatinine 38. Pains in spine 39.
Multi-joint pains 40. Vaccine damage 41. Numbness hands and feet 42.
Oedema both legs 43. Haematemesis 1999 (Vomiting blood)

Please note that vaccine damage has been accepted.


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Saturday January 13 1:19 PM ET
Hundreds Died of Cancer After DU Bombing -Doctor
By Gordana Filipovic
BELGRADE (Reuters) - A Yugoslav pathologist said on Saturday about
400
Bosnian Serbs from an area bombarded by NATO with depleted uranium
shells in 1994 later died of various forms of cancer. Doctor Zoran
Stankovic, head of the Department of Forensic Medicine of the
Yugoslav
Military-Medical Academy in Belgrade, linked the deaths -- which
totaled about 10 percent of the community -- to radioactive weapons.
Some of the victims had worn flak jackets made from shells with
depleted uranium (DU), he told Reuters in an interview. ``Four
hundred
people died of various forms of cancer in the past five years. They
were part of a community of some 4,000 Serbs from Hadzici (near
Sarajevo) who moved to Bratunac north-east of Sarajevo,´´ Stankovic
said. ``The death pattern was easy to follow in an isolated
population, particularly with an increased occurrence of malignant
diseases and deaths,´´ Stankovic, who performed some 4,000 autopsies,
said. Many of the Serbs from Hadzici had worked in a factory
repairing
tanks and armored vehicles that was heavily bombed by NATO in 1994.
At
the time, DU shells found on the ground were recycled and used to
produce flack jackets. ``Some of these Serbs wore the jackets and
died,´´ Stankovic said. He said no organized multi-disciplinary study
had been launched to establish links between DU and health hazards.
But he said he strongly felt the link existed. Doubts Du Is Harmless
He was commenting on reports by experts from some Western countries
that denied any link between radioactive weaponry and cancers after a
renewed DU scare swept many European states whose soldiers serve in
Kosovo, where NATO fired thousands of missiles containing the
radioactive substance. ``If it is so harmless as some people say, I
would like them to collect all the remainders of the DU shells, take
them to a nice house somewhere in Brussels, store the shells in the
cellar and have their children playing in the house,´´ Stankovic said.
Cases of cancer have been reported among Italian, Belgian, French,
Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese soldiers who served a peacekeepers in
Bosnia and Kosovo. NATO faces a potential split over the long-lasting
health impact of using the armor-piercing depleted uranium shells
which critics blame for cancer among the troops. Britain, NATO and the
United States insist there is no evidence of a link between DU weapons
and cases of leukemia among Italian soldiers. But Italy has demanded a
probe into the deaths of at least seven of its soldiers from leukemia
after duty in Bosnia and Kosovo. Stankovic said DU munitions were
inflicting physical and thermal damage on human beings, while exposure
to their ionizing radiation was seen as affecting bone marrow and the
reproductive tract and causing congenital anomalies. Particles from DU
explosions were contaminating the soil and underground waters, posing
threat to plants and animals, he added. Un Must Investigate Du Hazards
``The Americans have studied effects of the Gulf war on their
soldiers. Their study showed that 76 percent of their descendants were
born with physical anomalies. Some were born with six fingers, some
without an arm or a leg,´´ he said. Stankovic said the United Nations
had to organize a study of possible links between DU weapons and
health hazards, as the world organization was directly responsible for
the use of the depleted uranium weapons. But the study should take
time because an illness takes time to develop, he said. ``NATO will
have to finance the research. NATO will have to pay for regular
medical screening of the local population. If we want to help the
people, they must be screened every six months. NATO must also send
its experts to collect the leftover DU shells, because we don´t need
them,´´ Stankovic said. NATO says it had fired 31,000 shells
containing DU during its 1999 three-month bombing of Yugoslavia to
halt Belgrade's repression in Kosovo. Most hit Kosovo, southern Serbia
and Montenegro. The Yugoslav Army has so far reported no cases of
cancer among its members who served in Kosovo during the air strikes.
It says screening of 1,000 soldiers had negative results. But
Stankovic said the 1,000 soldiers represented less than one percent of
some 150,000 troops deployed in Kosovo. He also said he had received
reports of two cases of eyeball cancers. ``These two soldiers had
served in the area where thousands of shells fell. My question to
international medical experts is how does the surface of the eye-ball
reacts when exposed to the DU dust and does the dust causes the
cancer.´´

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The New York Times
January 13, 2001

Fray in Europe Over Uranium Draws Doubters
By GINA KOLATA

A furor has been growing in Europe for weeks over
contentions that some
allied troops contracted leukemia from exposure to
depleted uranium used in
NATO ammunition in the Balkans, and that civilians
were put at risk by
military testing.

But physicists and medical experts say it is
biologically impossible for
depleted uranium to have caused the leukemia, and they
doubt that the metal
caused any illnesses in Europe.

If the uranium was causing leukemia, it would
presumably do so by emitting
radioactive particles that would damage the bone
marrow.

But Dr. Frank von Hippel, a physicist who is a
professor of public and
international affairs at Princeton University, said
depleted uranium was not
much of a radioactivity hazard. It is what its name
implies — depleted. It is
what is left when the more highly radioactive uranium
235 has been removed
from its more abundant atomic cousin, uranium 238.

Uranium 235 is used to fuel nuclear reactors and
nuclear weapons. But uranium
238 "is very weakly radioactive," Dr. von Hippel said.

Even if one assumes that there is a ton of depleted
uranium dust for every
square kilometer in Kosovo, he said, its radiation
would be just one
one-hundredth, or 1 percent, of the naturally
occurring level of radiation in
the environment. "So this is not a very significant
hazard," he said.

Moreover, uranium 238 emits alpha radiation, said Dr.
Michael Thun, who
directs epidemiological research for the American
Cancer Society, and that
radiation does not even penetrate the skin. The
radiation that is known to
cause leukemia, gamma rays and X-rays, passes through
the body and reaches
the marrow, damaging cells and giving rise to disease.


Uranium is a heavy metal, and as with all heavy metals
it can be toxic. When
it enters the body, it lodges in the kidney, which it
can damage. But studies
of a handful of gulf war soldiers who were hit by
friendly fire and left with
fragments of uranium 238 in their bodies have been
reassuring, said Dr.
Charles Phelps, the provost at the University of
Rochester and a member of an
Institute of Medicine committee that reported on the
problem last year.

Uranium 238 clearly was leaching into the soldiers'
kidneys, he said. "They
had very high levels of uranium salts in their urine,"
Dr. Phelps said. "But
there is no evidence of kidney disease."

Depleted uranium has long been used to strengthen
weapons because it is
extremely dense, 65 percent denser than lead. A weapon
made with depleted
uranium can penetrate even steel-armored tanks. It
also ignites when it hits.

"When you fire into or through steel, it actually
vaporizes the steel," said
Dr. Bruce Kelman, a toxicologist who is a president of
GlobalTox, a business
in Seattle that studies industrial hygiene and
toxicology for governments and
industry. "You get a mist of depleted uranium and
steel."

Dr. von Hippel said that although the metal was
radioactive, "its half- life
is 4.5 billion years, which is, by coincidence, the
age of the solar system."
That means that it would take 4.5 billion years for
half the uranium 238
atoms in a chunk of the metal to decay by emitting
radioactive particles.

Because the radiation does not go to the marrow, it is
biologically
impossible for depleted uranium to cause leukemia,
said Dr. John Boice,
scientific director of the International Epidemiology
Institute, a research
concern in Rockville, Md., and an expert on radiation
and cancer.

"To get leukemia," Dr. Boice said, "you need to get
the radiation to the bone
marrow. And uranium 238 will not get to the bone
marrow."

Dr. Bruce Boecker, a radiation biologist at the
Lovelace Respiratory Research
Institute in Albuquerque, said, "I don't think it
causes leukemia at all."

If a person inhales uranium 238, it lodges in the
lungs where, in theory at
least, it might cause lung cancer or it might travel
to the lymph nodes and
theoretically cause lymphoma.

But Dr. Boice said extensive studies of workers who
processed uranium, some
exposed to high levels by breathing uranium dust, did
not find any
association between inhaling uranium 238 and
developing lung cancer or
lymphomas.

Lymphomas do not seem to be caused by radiation in any
case, Dr. Boice said.
But lung cancer can be, although the study of uranium
workers did not find
that.

"We would not have been surprised at these high levels
to find a link with
lung cancer," he said. "But there was none."

Dr. Thun of the cancer society said even though
science might not support the
idea that depleted uranium is causing health problems
in Europe, that does
not mean that scientists should turn their backs on
the concern. People think
they have leukemia because they were exposed to
depleted uranium, and those
fears will not easily go away.

"What I've been telling people," Dr. Thun said, "is
that we need a
systematic, open and prompt evaluation of the
situation, which would involve
determining the cases of leukemia, determining the age
of the patients, the
diagnosis, and the type of leukemia.

"In most cases, one of the major reasons for doing a
systematic evaluation is
to determine what is actually going on and to provide
some real information,
rather than rumors."



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http://www.centraleurope.com/news.php3?id=254288

Bosnian Employed by NATO Troops Died of Cancer

SARAJEVO, Jan 13, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) A
Bosnian working for Italian troops serving with the
NATO-led Stabilization Force (SFOR) in Bosnia died
from cancer, but it was unclear whether the case could
be linked with NATO's use of depleted uranium (DU), a
Bosnian official said Friday.

A 23-year-old man who had worked as a translator for
the Italian SFOR troops in 1997 died from lymphatic
cancer last September, the Health Minister of the
Muslim-Croat half of Bosnia, Bozo Ljubic, told
journalists.

An investigation aimed at detecting whether DU used in
NATO's 1994-95 intervention was the cause of his
disease was underway, Ljubic said.

Health ministry officials have recently met with SFOR
representatives following reports from European
countries that peacekeepers serving in the Balkans had
died from cancer.

SFOR experts are drawing up maps of the zones where DU
munition was used, Ljubic said, adding that it had
been agreed that his government would be provided with
the maps and all relevant findings.

The health ministry announced earlier this month that
the number of cancer cases in the Muslim-Croat part of
Bosnia increased in 1999, but could not confirm if
they were caused by radioactive contamination due to
DU rounds used by NATO.

The ministry said it lacked the adequate equipment to
measuring precisely the radioactivity in water and
food, stressing that the increase of cancer cases was
however "certainly" influenced by risk factors of
diet, smoking, alcoholism and pollution. ((c) 2001
Agence France Presse)

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1. Dutch daily NRC:

"After Kosovo war. Information on ammunition incomplete

By our editor Steven Derix

Rotterdam, 13 January [2001]

The United States have kept the Dutch ministry of Defence uninformed
for months on the true extent of the use of depleted uranium
ammunition during the Kosovo war. This is apparent from internal
ministry of Defence documents ... it now becomes apparent that The
Netherlands were completely dependent on the information provided by
the NATO headquarters SHAPE to the member states ...

Pentagon Silent on Uranium

... Until the UN General Secretary intervened: "Dear Kofi [Annan], I
can confirm that DU was used [letter by NATO General Secretary
Robertson, to Annan, 7 February 2000]." ... International
environmental organizations, peace activists, and Leftist politicians
already during the [Kosovo] conflict worried on the health effects of
the use of DU ammunition."

2. Germany, from German TV teletext, 13 January:

"The chairman of the Soldiers' League [Bundeswehrverband], Gertz, has
reproached Defence Minister Scharping, of having made untrue
statements on the preparation of soldiers in dealing with uranium
ammunition.

In the TV news magazine Focus he said it was "definitively wrong" when
the Minister said that the first troops contingent to Kosovo in its
training had been prepared to deal with uranium ammunition.

Until 1 July 1999, 2900 [German] troops had already entered Kosovo.
However, the Ministry of Defence only on 2 July had announced measures
to protect from radiation. According to Scharping, the use in the war
of uranium had been made public in May" [even earlier, really;
however, by opponents of the war; not by Scharping].


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Food [D.U. WATCH]
	 Ban

Friday January 12 4:33 PM ET
Group Urges Balkan Uranium Cleanup
BERLIN (AP) - Scientists studying the health risks of depleted
uranium
for the German government recommended Friday that Kosovo be cleaned
of
traces of the metal left by NATO weapons. The experts found no
evidence that German peacekeepers were likely to suffer health
problems after serving in Kosovo, where depleted uranium ammunition
was used during NATO's 1999 air campaign. But people living in areas
where the weapons were used should be warned of possible risks, said
the scientists from the Munich-based Research Center for Environment
and Health. ``In particular, the danger of uptake through children
playing there should be made clear,´´ they said in a statement.
``Contaminated areas should be marked and sealed and cleansed of
uranium traces.´´ Research has shown no link between the depleted
uranium used in armor-piercing weapons and serious illnesses such as
leukemia. Still, children are feared to be at risk if they inhale
uranium dust or put hands soiled with the toxic metal in their mouths.
Scientists say more research is needed into long-term effects on the
human body. United Nations officials said peacekeepers had begun
marking known bomb sites this week. On Friday, Italy's Agriculture
Minister Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio said he had asked the European Union
to impose controls on agricultural imports from the Balkans due to the
radiation scare. Speaking on Italian radio, Scanio said he had written
letters asking the EU to inspect produce from contaminated areas -
especially mushrooms and animals - for depleted uranium and other
chemical substances linked to the war. Italy is looking into a
possible link between exposure to depleted uranium and the illnesses
of 30 Italian soldiers who served in Bosnia and Kosovo. Seven have
died of leukemia or other cancers. Depleted uranium is a byproduct of
natural uranium and about 40 percent as radioactive. Because of its
extreme density it has an unmatched ability to punch through armored
vehicles and is used to tip anti-tank ammunition. It also is
self-igniting, creating secondary explosions. U.S. and British tanks
and warplanes first used ammunition containing depleted uranium in
combat during the Gulf War, and more than 300 tons still litters
battlefields in Iraq, according to U.N. officials. U.S. forces fired
about 30 tons in air raids in Kosovo two years ago, and smaller
quantities in Bosnia. Unfired munitions pose little health risk
because they emit virtually no radiation. But when depleted uranium
ammunition penetrates armor, it creates dust particles that can be
inhaled, ingested or enter the body through an open wound. Because it
is a heavy metal, depleted uranium can be both a chemical poison and a
radiation hazard. The chemical hazard is greater, according to the
U.S. Army. Russian Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev called Friday for
an
international conference on the hazards of ammunition containing
depleted uranium.

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Athens News
January 13, 2001

DU fallout debate rocks parliament

BY GEORGE GILSON

Torching back: Young Greek women carry torches as they
join protesters marching towards the US embassy in
Athens on Thursday night during a protest against the
use of depleted uranium in Nato bombing raids on the
Balkans.

SPARKS flew in parliament yesterday as Prime Minister
Costas Simitis defended his government's handling of
the depleted uranium (DU) crisis, especially regarding
precautions taken to protect Greek troops in Kosovo,
in response to questions from Left Coalition leader
Nikos Constandopolulos and former New Democracy chief
Miltiadis Evert.

Although Greece did not participate in the 1999 air
strikes against Yugoslavia, Constandopoulos blasted
the government for signing on to the campaign,
allegedly knowing and concealing the hazards of DU,
and depicted Athens as the handmaiden of Western
interests. "You all knew. But you were silent... Even
at this late date you should say 'Enough manipulation
of Europe by the leadership of the US and Nato every
time. Europe should undertake with its own policy its
responsibility to restore and cure what was struck',"
he said.

"You say: 'We didn't want to, but what can we do, we
approved. We didn't want dangerous weapons but, what
can we do, we won't destroy them. We didn't take part
in the campaign but, what can we do, we offered all
facilities requested. The issue should be
investigated, but let Nato do it," said
Constandopoulos.

The Left Coalition leader said that the government
should call on the EU and Nato to destroy all
dangerous weapons in their arsenals and ban them. "It
is clear that you don't want to. You don't dare," he
said.

The recriminations came on the heels of revelations by
the Greek chapter of Helsinki Watch that Athens bought
504, "Adam M692" landmines containing depleted uranium
from the US prior to 1992, when a moratorium was
imposed on their export. That contradicts Greek
defence ministry assurances that 40,000 DU rounds used
for training by the Greek navy were the only DU
munitions in the Greek arsenal, though it is unclear
whether the mines were deployed.

Simitis maintained that a Greek veto of the Kosovo
campaign would have changed nothing as the war would
have proceeded anyway. "In that case, Greece would
have found itself weakened and unable to influence
developments. Who can challenge the fact that Greece
influenced developments, contributed to peace, sent
the most humanitarian aid, went first to Kosovo,
cooperated with Yugoslavia on a solution. That there
is peace in Yugoslavia right now is due, in part, to
Greece, which acted effectively," he said.

While reiterating the health precautions Greece took
for its peacekeepers and criticising Nato for not
providing adequate information on DU hazards, Simitis
said it would be "ridiculous" for Greece as a
non-combatant to raise objections to the kind of
munitions its allies deployed.

In answering Evert, the PM insisted that it is in
Athens' interest to keep its peacekeepers in Kosovo
and Bosnia in place. "We sent Greek troops because
that was required by our country's interests. "Since
you are complaining loudly, Mr Evert, you should have
at the time brought all the evidence which you mention
in your question. But even now you can produce no
evidence," Simitis responded. The PM denied press
reports that Evert produced indicating that the
cabinet was divided over whether to send peacekeepers.


The PM asserted that proof of a link between DU and
cancer is required and that testing results from the
Greek Atomic Energy Commission must be awaited because
Athens cannot rely on scientific hearsay. "There are
alarming suspicions and data and we are worried. We
don't want to have problems. That is why we took care
to equip Greek troops with the necessary means so
that, if there is a danger, we can handle the
situation," he said, referring to the fact that troops
receive food and drink from Greece. Simitis underlined
that Athens had called for an international probe of
the health and environmental effects of the bombings
as early as April, 1999, when Nato's campaign was
still underway. "Greece does not accept all that it is
told. Greece investigates, but it does so responsibly.
Greece acts responsibly. It cannot act on the basis of
mere rumours and inconclusive data and under pressure
or political crescendos," said Simitis.

Meanwhile, Archbishop Christodoulos of Greece has
expressed a desire to visit Kosovo on January 19-20
and is awaiting a response from the Yugoslav
government.


ATHENS NEWS , 13/01/2001 , page: A04
Article code: C12850A041