(10 Apr 2003) Informative interview
with Dr. Doug Rokke, former US Major and expert on depleted uranium,
on its use in US weaponry in Iraq in 1991 and now, and its effect on
people, the environment and the seabed. CHARLES BOYLAN, Shunpiking
IRAQ
(17 Nov 2004) A new British inquiry
confirms that the Gulf War Syndrome is genuine, and London must now
accept that it afflicts thousands of veterans of the 1991 war against
Iraq. RADIO HAVANA CUBA
(1 Sep 2003) -- Soldiers and civilians
in Iraq face a health time bomb after dangerously high levels of radiation
were measured around Baghdad. EXPRESS, London
(15 May 2003) Christian Sience Monitor
finds high levels of radiation left by US armor-piercing shells. The
whole place is contaminated and no one is warning or protecting the
inhabitants. SCOTT PETERSON
(30 Mar 2003) Coalition forces are
using DU shells in the war against Iraq and deliberately flouting a
UN resolution which classifies the munitions as illegal weapons of mass
destruction. NEIL MACKAY, The Sunday Herald (Scotland)
(Nov 2002) Interview with US Major
DOUG ROKKE in Boston. Traprock Peace Center
(20 Dec 2002) If US fights Iraq,
it would use a weapon that left a radioactive trail in Gulf War. SCOTT
PETERSON, Christian Science Monitor
AFGHANISTAN
(22 May 2003) A small sample of Afghan
civilians have shown "astonishing" levels of uranium in their urine,
an independent scientist says. ALEX KIRBY, BBC
Startling new report on exposure
to uranium dust and debris, despite Anglo-American denial of DU use.
DAVEY GARLAND, Green Left Weekly, Australia
(Mar 2002) The US loudly and proudly
boasted this month of its new bomb being used in Afghanistan. ROBERT
JAMES PARSONS, Le Monde Diplomatique
(1 Dec 2001) The effect of using
depleted uranium in Irak - Are we using it in Afghanistan also? ANDY
KERSHAW, The Independent, London
PALESTINE
(11 Oct 2002) Time for a dossier on
Israel. The crash of El Al flight LY1862 in the Netherlands, 4 October
1992. NEIL SAMMONDS, Middle East International
(27 Nov 2000) Israel is DU-armed and
capable, and shielding on Israeli tanks is DU-reinforced. International
Action Center
YUGOSLAVIA /
BOSNIA
(2 Jan 2003) Experts from the UN
Environment Program (UNEP) recently found three radioactive foci in
Bosnia-Herzegovina from recovered missiles containing U-238 depleted
uranium used by NATO in the 1995 air attacks. HUGO ALONSO, Prensa Latina
(18 Aug 2004) The Pentagon's use of DU weapons means a death sentence both here and abroad, according to a former weapons laboratory whistleblower. Are Physicians for Social Responsibility part of the medical cover-up?
(21 Jul 2004) Since 1991,
the United States has staged four wars using depleted uranium
weaponry, illegal under all international treaties, conventions
and agreements, as well as under the US military law. LEUREN
MORET
(14 Mar 2004) -- An international
citizens' tribunal in Tokyo found US President George W. Bush guilty
of war crimes for attacking civilians with indiscriminate weapons and
other arms during the US-led antiterrorism operations in Afghanistan
in 2001. NAO SHIMOYACHI, Japan Times
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