CANADA | WORLD | COMMENTRIES | DOCUMENTS| MEDIA CULPA/DISINFORMATION| LINKS & RESOURCES|   Released on the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima and Hagasaki, August 6 2005 CANADA Depleted uranium released during plane crash (24 Oct 2003) Crash of Boeing 747 at Halifax International Airport exposes little-known use of DU in commercial jets. CHRISTOPHER BOLLYN, American Free Press The case of Capt. Terry Riordan (3 Jul 2004) Presentation by Susan Riordan of Yarmouth, NS to the Halifax International Symposium on Media and Disinformation. (Forthcoming)   The last gift of Terry Riordan (17 Nov 2004) The test results indicated that traces of a radioactive metal, depleted uranium, remained in his body -- nine years after he left the field of conflict. RAYMOND D. COHEN, Abilities Magazine Uranium activist's home burglarized (26 Mar 2001) Someone broke into the rural Nova Scotia home belonging to the widow of Capt. Terry Riordon, a Canadian Forces veteran who allegedly died of Gulf War Syndrome, say the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. MURRAY BREWSTER, CP Catastrophe - Ill Gulf Vets contaminated partners with DU (9 Feb 2001) "We are in a navy city ... Ten years ago most (Gulf war veterans) were sexually functional ... We could be only beginning to see the problems," she told the committee. CLARE MELLOR, Halifax Herald 'Today I am ashamed' (9 Feb 2001) Gulf War vet's widow stuns politicians with tales of neglect. CLARE MELLOR, Halifax Herald Veterans misled about depleted uranium poisoning, say experts (14 Nov 2000) Canada's veterans who think they were poisoned in the 1991 Gulf War and in the Balkans can't trust the government when it says they're fine, said scientists at an international conference. CBC News Depleted uranium found in tissue of Gulf War veteran (7 Feb 2000) New scientific evidence may help determine why so many Gulf War veterans are sick. Defence Minister's empty promise. CBC News Two institutions that deserve our outrage (Defence Minister) Art Eggleton says "it's very sad.'' It's not "very sad.'' It's criminal negligence and it's outrageous. MICHELLE LANDSBERG, Toronto Star Radioactive regiments (8 July 1999) Is Canada knowingly sending its soldiers off to Kosovo to die from uranium dust? SID TAFLER, Now, Toronto Puzzling illness claims Gulf War veteran (5 Jan 1999) "Failing grade" for military treatment. "An absoluite cover-up by the government", says president of the Canadian Peacekeeping Veterans Association. LOIS LEGGE, Halifax Herald   CANADA / CANADIAN NAVY Media Culpa: Hurricane Juan and depleted uranium (24 Oct 2003) Canadian Forces clean up "other debris". MITZI BOWMAN with TONY SEED, Shunpiking Online Canadian navy dumps six tons of depleted uranium rounds   Waters off Halifax conceal radioactive shell casings (22 Sep 1999) Tons of potentially toxic radioactive material is sitting just off the coast of Nova Scotia. CBC News Fishermen assured underwater depleted uranium safe. (25 Sep 99) The Navy met with fishermen for an hour this week "to clear up the situation". CBC News   Depleted uranium weapons used in Iraq, coastal waters (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 WORLD IRAQ British study accepts Gulf War Syndrome (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 Dangerously high levels of radiation measured around Baghdad (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 Remains of toxic bullets litter Iraq (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 US forces' use of depleted uranium weapons is 'illegal' (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) The war against ourselves (Nov 2002) Interview with US Major DOUG ROKKE in Boston. Traprock Peace Center A 'silver bullet's' toxic legacy (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 Afghans' uranium levels spark alert (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 Afghanistan: poisoning of troops and civilians Startling new report on exposure to uranium dust and debris, despite Anglo-American denial of DU use. DAVEY GARLAND, Green Left Weekly, Australia Depleted uranium in bunker bombs: America's big dirty secret (Mar 2002) The US loudly and proudly boasted this month of its new bomb being used in Afghanistan. ROBERT JAMES PARSONS, Le Monde Diplomatique A chamber of horrors next to the Garden of Eden (1 Dec 2001) The effect of using depleted uranium in Irak - Are we using it in Afghanistan also? ANDY KERSHAW, The Independent, London PALESTINE Israeli plane carrying weapons of mass destruction (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 Is the Israeli military using depleted-uranium weapons against the Palestinians? (27 Nov 2000) Israel is DU-armed and capable, and shielding on Israeli tanks is DU-reinforced. International Action Center YUGOSLAVIA / BOSNIA NATO's use of radioactive weapons (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 COMMENTARIES Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets (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? Depleted uranium: the trojan horse of nuclear war (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 Depleted uranium shells decried; Citizens find Bush guilty of Afghan war crimes (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   International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan at Tokyo (10 Mar 2004) Final Written Opinion of Judge Niloufer Bhagwat   What does the US Government know about DU? (PDF File) (25 Nov 2003) LOREN MORET Is the Pentagon giving our soldiers cancer? (2 Oct 2003) US military might relies on depleted uranium, which incinerates tanks on impact. But soldiers and civilians alike say the radioactive ammo is making them sick. HILLARY JOHNSON, Rolling Stone Years of living dangerously (31 Oct 2002) Armed conflicts have exacerbated the health situation across the Middle East. HALA SAKR investigates the relationship between health and war and highlights the problems created by the US use of depleted uranium in Iraq. Al-Ahram Weekly, Cairo Making choices (31 Oct 2002) Gro Harlem Brundtland, WHO director general and former prime minister of Norway, talks of the fine line one has to tread between mandate and compromise. Al-Ahram Weekly, Cairo Mystery metal nightmare in Afghanistan? (Jan 2002) Mystery metal bombs and Afghan war syndrome. The silence of government, UN agencies and the media, and the vailidity of official research.. Collected studies and public domain sources compiled by DAI WILLIAMS, independent researcher. Orginal Source http:www.eoslifework.co.uk/du2012.htm Health risks of using depleted uranium (5 Nov 2001) Survey article, especially regarding military aviation and weaponry. Venik's Aviation Allies told in 1991 of uranium cancer risks (7 Jan 2001) Leaked documents cover up claim. NEIL MACKAY and FELICITY ARBUTHNOTT, The Sunday Herald, Scotland DU's global spread spurs debate over effect on humans (29 Apr 1999) At least 17 countries have in their arsenals bullets made from depleted uranium. Many -- such as Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Taiwan -- get them from the US. England and France buy DU wholesale from the US. Russia now sells DU rounds on the open market. SCOTT PETERSON, Christian Science Monitor MEDIA CULPA/DISINFORMATION British Defence Dept lied over depleted uranium (29 Feb 2004) Claims by the Ministry of Defence that depleted uranium is not a risk to life have been undermined by a Sunday Herald investigation that found the British army is telling soldiers in Iraq that it can cause ill-health. NEIL MACKAY and AMY WILSON, The Sunday Herald. Uranium weapons cover-ups in our midst (16 Oct 2003). Detailed analysis of information warfare and its modus operandi presented to the World Uranium Weapons Conference. PIOTR BEIN Weapon of mass deception (20 Jun 2003) What the Pentagon doesn't want us to know about depleted uranium. FRIDA BERRIGAN, In These Times Canadian Forces medical officer dismisses depleted uranium concerns as 'fantasy' (3 Apr 2003) One of the highest-ranking medical officers in the Canadian Forces has dismissed as a "fantasy" a series of media reports linking the use of radioactive weapons with a wide range of illnesses suffered by some Gulf War veterans. MURRAY BREWSTER, CP Lie of the millenium? (15 Mar 2001) The reasoning behind the ongoing campaign of deception is made clearer by a Los Alamos National Laboratory memo entitled "The Effectiveness of Depleted Uranium Penetrators" dated 1 March 1991, the day after the Gulf cease-fire and the day before the slaughter on the Basra road using DU weapons. FELICITY ARBUTHNOT, Al-Ahram Weekly LINKS & RESOURCES World Uranium Weapons Conference (16-19 Oct 2003) Depleted uranium and other uranium weapons: trojan horse of a nuclear war. Hamburg, Germany http: //www.uraniumweaponsconference.de/ Fact sheet from World Health Organization http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs257/en/ Traprock Peace Center, Deerfield, MA http://traprockpeace.org/depleteduranium.html Federation of American Scientists - Depleted Uranium Souces and Resources http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/du.htm International Action Center - Depleted Uranium Project http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/du.htm The National Gulf War Resource Center, Inc. - essential resources http://www.ngwrc.org/ Eos life-work resource centre - Updating Depleted Uranium weapons 2001-2002, Mystery metal nightmare in Afghanistan, January 2002 report by Dai Wiliams http://www.eoslifework.co.uk/du2012.htm Discounted Casualties: The Human Cost of Depleted Uranium By Hiroshima journalist Akira Tashiro, introduction by Leuren Moret. 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