British Scientists to study risk from Depleted Uranium Weapons

[Monkeyman]

Scientists to study risk from uranium weapons

The effects of a toxic metal used for armour-piercing weapons in both Gulf wars is to be studied by British scientists.

Depleted uranium (DU) is nearly twice as dense as lead and highly valued for its ability to Punch through armored vehicles.

But concerns have been raised about the lasting health risks it poses. When a weapon made with DU tip hits armour it goes straight though it and then erupts in a burning cloud of vapor. The vapor settles as a dust, which is chemically poisonous and also radioactive.

Because of the difficulties of carrying out research in war zones , little is known about DU's effects, but veterans from the Gulf and Kosovan wars claim it has made them seriously ill.

http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1951377

[whistle]

1. We already know what luminous toxins can do, DU is no different

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_girls

[Monkeyman]

2. Yep but how many troops and Iraqi 's will die from this crap

[whistle]

3. How many will die of DU toxins? Everyone who has injested even

....small minute quantities of this stuff

[Monkeyman]

4. More then we will ever know Cover Up Coming

[libodem]

5. Curious

I would like to know the extent of the increase of birth defects in places we bombed in Iraq and how our own soldiers' offspring have been affected. Sad and sick.

[Monkeyman]

6. Here you can get part of that info from larry

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[crickets]

7. Birth defects

Afghanistan:

Voices - Death Made In America (WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS)
By: Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, PhD
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2006/04/29/p7926

Iraq:

EXTREME BIRTH DEFORMITIES (WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS)
http://www.uksociety.org/us_crimes_against-humanity_1.htm
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~gw/extremedeformities.htm


It's a little tougher to find much concrete information about children being born to US soldiers and veterans. Maybe someone else has more.

Depleted uranium: The next generation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1122566.stm

Depleted Uranium - Far Worse Than 9/11
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20060503&articleId=2374

Dr. Hardan also states:

"I arranged for a delegation from Japan's Hiroshima Hospital to come and share their expertise in the radiological diseases we are likely to face over time. The delegation told me the Americans had objected and they decided not to come. Similarly, a world famous German cancer specialist agreed to come, only to be told later that he would not be given permission to enter Iraq."

Not only are we poisoning the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, but we are making a concerted effort to keep out specialists from other countries who can help. The U.S. Military doesn"t want the rest of the world to find out what we have done.
...

In a group of eight U.S. led Coalition servicemen whose babies were born without eyes, seven are known to have been directly exposed to DU dust. In a much group (250 soldiers) exposed during the first Gulf war, 67% of the children conceived after the war had birth defects.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=depleted+uranium+birth+defects&btnG=Google+Search


It's horrifying. What the hell has been done in our name? And how do we get it STOPPED?