From: Blunderov (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Wed May 19 2004 - 14:30:04 MDT
[Blunderov] This must be the Rolling Stone Article that Massey mentioned.
Best Regards
http://feedthefish.org/blog/materials/johnson.html
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Iraqi civilians were also exposed to low-level radiation from DU -- and
preliminary evidence indicates that the consequences have been devastating.
Iraqi doctors, many of them specialists trained at eminent Western
institutions, such as Sloan-Kettering in New York or Great Ormond Street
Hospital in London, report twelve-fold increases in Iraqi cancer rates since
the first Gulf War, as well as sharp rises in birth defects in southern
Iraq, where much 0f the fighting took place. According to Iraqi doctors,
some infants there emerged from the womb with one eye, or no brain, or
without limbs. They add that in the dozen years since the conflict, rates of
childhood cancer linked to radiation exposure -- especially leukemia and
lymphoma -- have jumped four-fold.
As for U.S. troops, the Pentagon says that only 900 of the 700,000 soldiers
deployed during the war were exposed to DU, when they were fired upon or
went into destroyed tanks to rescue others. But scientists and military
whistle-blowers who have studied the campaign say the number of soldiers
exposed to DU dust and debris is closer to 300,000. Soon after the fighting
stopped, soldiers who worked on supply lines at the rear were loaded on
buses and taken to the battlefields so they could be photographed with their
comrades on burned-out Iraqi tanks. No one warned them to avoid the sticky
black soot coating the vehicles, which was radioactive.
Within months of the war's end, thousands of Gulf War veterans began
suffering from odd, nameless maladies, including hair loss, bleeding gums,
memory loss, joint pain, incontinence. and disabling fatigue. In 1992, Sen.
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked the General Accounting Office, an independent
research arm of Congress, to study American tanks that had been hit by DU
rounds during the war. GAO investigators learned that most soldiers had
never been informed by their superiors about the hazards of DU. The GAO's
findings were summarized in the title of its report issued a year later:
"Army Not Adequately Prepared to Deal with Depleted Uranium Contamination".
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