Depleted Uranium
Depleted Uranium has been likened to the biblical wormwood, bringing with it cancers and deformity. It has also been linked with Gulf War Syndrome leaving a legacy of disease and death for generations, not only for Iraqis, but for UK/US troops too
By Robert Fisk on April 26, 2012
Part II of Robert Fisk’s report from Fallujah a decade after it was ‘liberated’ by U.S. forces
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By wmw_admin on March 28, 2011
The coalition is reportedly using Depleted Uranium ordnance in Libya. Just as it did in Iraq and Afghanistan where it is now associated with increased rates of cancer and birth defects
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By wmw_admin on March 7, 2010
‘Before 2003 [the start of the war] I was seeing sporadic numbers of deformities in babies’, Dr Ayman Qais says. ‘Now the frequency of deformities has increased dramatically’
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By wmw_admin on January 7, 2009
Norwegian medics tell Press TV that they’ve found traces of Depleted Uranium in some of the wounded they treated
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By wmw_admin on March 27, 2008
Largely unpublicised, an official U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs has put the number of U.S. soldiers who have perished as a result of exposure to Depleted Uranium based bio-chemical weapons at 73, 846 – more deaths than Vietnam
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By wmw_admin on October 21, 2007
In deposing the Taliban and removing Saddam Hussein the Anglo-American alliance replaced them with something infinitely worse. Depleted Uranium: a crime against humanity, which will be paid for by innocents for generations to come
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By wmw_admin on August 29, 2007
Iraq war veterans are increasingly falling prey to aggressive cancers, the chief suspect: Depleted Uranium
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By on August 23, 2007
Linked to horrendous birth deformities (left), cancer and Gulf War Syndrome among soldiers and civlians alike, the use of Depleted Uranium will surely go down as one of the great crimes of modern times. Yet still the Pentagon continues to use it
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By on August 23, 2007
Depleted Uranium (DU) has been likened to the biblical “wormwood”. Mark Gaffney continues his study of the use of DU and its horrific consequences
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By on May 21, 2007
It’s called “depleted” uranium, it’s radioactive and on impact and when burned it releases nano-particles of radioactive uranium into the environment. Now it appears the US is using depleted uranium rounds within its own borders for target practice
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By on May 10, 2007
Depleted Uranium (DU) has been linked to increased levels of cancer, birth deformities and Gulf War Syndrome. Yet DU is still a crucial piece of Anglo-American ordnance
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By on March 20, 2007
Depleted Uranium is no longer just taking a toll of Iraqi civilians and Coalition soldiers; its effects are now also evident among the offspring of soldiers returned from Iraq. Watch filmmaker Sue Harris’s telling 90 minute video here
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By on December 31, 2006
Take a look and see what your taxes have helped pay for: a munition that the UK and US governments insist has no harmful side effects
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By on December 29, 2006
The ‘Wormwood’ of ancient prophecy has come to pass in the form of Depleted Uranium. More on the dangers of DU and how US army Doctors and medical researchers who sought raise the alarm were lied to, threatened and derided
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By on December 28, 2006
The ‘Wormwood’ of ancient prophecy has come to pass in the form of Depleted Uranium, bringing with it disease, deformity and lingering death to Iraqi children (left) and Gulf War Syndrome to US veterans alike
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By on December 10, 2006
First came Depleted Uranium (DU), which brought widespread cancers, birth deformities and most probably Gulf War Syndrome too. Now the Israelis have taken this catalogue of horrors a step further with Dense Inert Metal Explosives (DIME)
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By on November 21, 2006
In Gulf War I the US admits to using 300 tons of Depleted Uranium, although the actual figure is probably closer to 800 tons. In Gulf War II 1500 tons were used, bringing cancer, death and deformity to Coalition troops and innocent Iraqis for generations
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By on November 5, 2006
“By illegally using hundreds of tons of depleted uranium against Iraq, Britain and America have gravely endangered not only the Iraqis but the whole world” Dr Chris Busby, radiation expert and UK delegate on the European Committee on Radiation Risk
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By on November 5, 2006
On the generally accepted principle that around 7.5 soldiers are wounded for every one killed on active duty, that equates to around 20,400 U.S. DEAD in Iraq
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By on October 22, 2006
“Depleted uranium has a half life of four and a half billion years… This means that the Middle East, Central Asia, and Yugoslavia are contaminated – forever.” – Leuren Moret, Geological Scientist, International Radiation Expert
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