UK agrees to clean up Depleted Uranium in Iraq.

[JohnyCanuck]

Malcolm Hooper, emeritus professor of medicinal chemistry at the University of Sunderland, is chief scientific adviser to the UK Gulf Veterans' Association.

He told BBC News Online: "I welcome what the MoD has said, because it suggests someone may now be starting to say: 'Hang on, perhaps this stuff isn't as benign as we thought'.

"And I think the evidence is piling up that DU is not benign at all. The inhalation of these fine dust particles represents a health hazard that was known to the military as long ago as 1974.

"The ministry is right to say it has a moral duty to act. I think it has a legal duty as well, in the light of the child cancers and birth defects we've been seeing in Iraq since DU was used in the 1991 war."

From a BBC report at:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2970503.stm

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ya think?

[JewelDigger]

2. I know how I'm going to make my 'fortune' now......

....develop a HUGE DU vacuum cleaner thingy! Military contracts, a website, guest spots on T....V..... I's gonna be RICH!!!