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into the country's leadership but some fear it could mean meeting to the nationalistic far right. party now investigates a weapon to strike down those from both sides of conflicts were its used to the dangers of a depleted uranium is next. my illness is. the most of all to listed on my wall and children's but. i'm not sure i can remember each and every one i was always tired of headaches could never go away. the fairy sensitive to light as far as i am with the pain was just unbelievable that we will lead up like you know like fetuses in the bed i pray. i do have. friends i made sure the desires i dunno we've lost all desire is gone i'm not as active as they used to be and it's about them to talk about that. between just go well surely i

mean some bosses niggling fringe noone again they should have to ration community and all the same as the tumor was caused by the depleted uranium that was put into the truth. from. what's pissed in the office they keep bringing up the issue that is not really. it's there bring something else all you're getting all the guys i know it's a convention tell you any lies to cover up for the worse. for

them i want and it was a cold morning. and you my soul was in finance new clothes though never forget the sandwiches make us on the way they held on to their families you can't so much cry hands. sadness. from worry that she said. take care of my kids as if they were heels. i don't know fall back. thank god he's come back even if he was hurt because many of them didn't. we don't know new mothers small's this. picture of big bull dina's husband lives in the bronx in new york city he was sent to iraq in two

thousand and three he was a sergeant and of serving in a national guard unit for over twenty years in iraq he became a military policeman you never saw live combat. if this is. an error akki soldier is. everything. just a few months after vien in iraq started feeling ill suffering from intense migraine headaches and muscular pain he was declared unfit for service was discharged and he returned home the piece still suffers from severe headaches fatigue in pain for months the arjun of his symptoms was a mystery he had some medical tests the results where he had been poisoned by depleted uranium a radioactive material that had been used in the war. more

of damage off has been arrested about fifty times it's always for the same reasons and he's about to do it again on this bitter cold morning in minnesota he's protesting for what he sees as a just cause he has fought many such peaceful battles in his lifetime he's even won some. sacks. freedom rides. like steep climb. and back. and away to later we were. on prime the most obese the browser and brought him maximum security. i was lying there we. as people were some freedoms.

and i was crying not because they were promising us not because of the now. ality everybody. sighs. i'm going to do this just the by mike and i'm gonna look for the feeling. that's what motivates me. a line. about three below him and welcomes. me oh hurry dean out. now so the. lamb times niggers news are all it's in the world. now oh

sure it's the first thing every wednesday morning rain or shine for the past ten years marv and a group of fellow pacifists demonstrate outside the headquarters of this local armament company they remind people that depleted uranium weapons were used in the war in arrests and that this company still manufactures them. depleted uranium ore dehumanisation have been the subject of heated debate because of the secondary effects they may have on the health of troops and civilians. as we watch the change we want nuclear abolition way while we're against the weapons of mass destruction like you put it you're a podcast or bob therefore to drive a stray should ideally says we should not use any drugs less it is better to play

safe and data test well what they plated you're ready and we do it just the other there we go and use that as always i acknowledge they started just as they. yes but this radioactive. place opposite the. hole. and the human issues were one of the most deadly and effective weapons in the first gulf war they are a kind of metallic arrow or bullet and are called penetrators they were launched by american tanks planes and helicopters and the result was that saddam hussein's armor was destroyed in a matter of minutes. the

penetrators are not explosives they are flechettes or bullet like spindles of depleted uranium a very dense self igniting metal those characteristics and the enormous kinetic energy released by the penetrator on impact means to you rounds cut through tank armor like a hot knife through butter fragments of burning d'you penetrate the crew compartment and incinerate everything in their path. a few weeks ago at this veterans hospital in illinois. a retired major in the united states army underwent an operation to remove cataracts from his eyes he's a veteran of both the first gulf war and the war in vietnam is very clear that uranium munitions would cause injuries and eye damage so with the extensive exposures that i hail and again the uranium dust settling on the i as

a consequence over the years would develop a cataract. in one thousand nine hundred ninety one when he was still in the army and after land combat. in kuwait in iraq were ok was appointed to research the effects of the depleted uranium munitions that had been used for the first time officially in that war his unit's job was to clean out american tanks a quipped with dehumanisation that had been destroyed by friendly fire i started getting sick and my team started getting sick within twenty four hours forty eight hours the first thing that showed up was respiratory problems u.s. department of veteran affairs has formally diagnosed as reactive barely disease you'd occupational exposure to depleted uranium in my case and so we developed the rash the rash of still would make it back to its rash right now is open and bleeding. like i started dying and i wish i would real serious medical problems i could get medical care. ricky took part in

a study commissioned by the pentagon on the after effects of depleted uranium munitions what the study found was at odds with the official line and roky ended up becoming an anti dui activist. no i'm not a peacenik i'm a warrior a warrior that's finishing his job because as a person who was assigned a responsibility to clean up the mess who was assigned responsibility to do the research he was assigned a responsibility right there army regulations which are formally adopted and absolutely required as you are sure who wrote the training programs i don't learn and what i learned scared. battlefields and fire or ok took part in the production of this video that was filmed in one thousand nine hundred five four years after the first gulf war record to train soldiers presented it sends conflicting messages on the you in part one it

points out the risks of toxic contamination have dust from these substances is swallowed or inhaled and it describes the hazards of printing on how much depleted uranium is an a.o. straw load or gets under the skin heavy metal poisoning may occur which can cause damage to internal organs and tissues. health effects of ionizing radiation depend on whether it is alpha beta or gamma and if the radioactive material is inside or outside the body alpha is the least penetrating but is the most hazardous if it does get into the body heavy metals bind to d.n.a. we know that for a long time and heavy metals cause cancer and they probably cause it because of this binding to d.n.a. which disrupts the way the d.n.a. can behave in the cell so this sensually d.n.a. damaging agents. may be partially it is chemical and partially it

is radiation then russia these effects are why the u.s. army recommends strong protective measures for their troops even though the film ends up minimizing the hazards of depleted uranium remember depleted uranium is not an immediate hazard. bottom line unless you're involved in a death nation or fire with depleted uranium hazards are relatively small. some units of the new york national guard were called up and sent to iraq after the invasion of two thousand and three gerard a matthew went there with his unit their job was to a scorched convoys. one of the ones who came home after the war started having headaches easily irritated by the slightest think the piece made has changed

a lot you let me say something you've never had a headache that you have had six seven headaches a day and if you tell me almost fifty sixty i might i mean it's really debilitating and a headache that you have so yes there are short spaced but they come and go. you will in another thing i guess he said bumps and skin see red here really here. ok here's a letter from. my finally matthew got in touch with other veterans like hector vega who had similar symptoms they all took a test to see if they had been poisoned by depleted uranium and results were a surprise. he says. you have four to eight times higher than the other soldiers. which makes your being the person that has

the highest level. you know i said lead us to reason and i do it came under way should be. the couple has a baby girl who was born with a birth defect on one hand her mother is convinced that it is on account of gerard's exposure to di you. so yes i mean yeah i mean what i saw the deep down in my heart i knew that she was gone like that even yesterday because of something he had back one of us and we started looking for answers on the internet i mean. i think i have the picture comes hand was identical to my daughter has no money and iraqi baby that had been exposed to depleted uranium so by me for me that's was the proof my baby's hand and the hands of that iraqi baby i expose that i feel your pain. natural uranium is made up of two isotopes ninety nine percent as you reign him to

thirty eight point seven percent is the more radioactive uranium at two thirty five . the nuclear industry uses isotopes separation to produce enrich uranium which contains a higher concentration of uranium to thirty five enriched uranium is more radioactive the natural uranium and it's used in the manufacture of atomic weapons depleted uranium is the byproduct of this process it is less radioactive but it still toxic and this is what used to make antitank weapons. do you weapons can also be made with uranium already used by nuclear power plants but in the process it is contaminated with the highly radioactive elements generated inside nuclear reactors this is a cheap way of getting rid of many tons of nuclear waste which otherwise would be very expensive to store safely. tucked in

a barrel. the nuclear energy program is saying millions of millions of pounds own gain rid of you know nuclear waste. but the way it's been the others serve in moral you know early is immoral. i believe it's illegal. to. use it because it's highly effective to fly straight it's highly lethal up on. giving a first shot one shot kill so taking it off the battlefield is not a but is not a neutral act. it's an act that will cause will the loss of lives by taking away both protection and the super bowl super weapon the pentagon is kind of oversold

the importance of to put it right to defend the weapon if exaggerated the importance of it. but it was actually guided missiles had a particular hellfire missile destroyed about a third of all the iraqi tanks that were destroyed. and bernard rust held several positions in the pentagon during the clinton administration and he spent a number of years directing research into the so-called gulf war illnesses. the kinds of symptoms that are seen in people with gulf war illness are totally inconsistent with exposure to morrow depleted uranium and so they came to the conclusions as has the united nations the e.u. . almost everybody who has looked at this in an unbiased scientific way that the pleated uranium is not related to the unexplained illnesses that we saw in

the first gulf war. thank. you. this is the center of amman the capital of jordan among the shoppers are all and to iraqi cancer specialists today they are sightseeing but they have come to a man to take part in an uncool logical congress sponsored by a large american pharmaceutical company here they will find out about the latest treatments for cancer but they will not be able to use them in iraq. we are triple and we are looking to people dying with though any help from us or from others we could say we are crippled and or months are tied together because we haven't got the first cell it's ease to treat our patients.

both doctors work in bosnia university hospital and they are taking part in a study funded by german universities to examine the soaring number of cancers in that iraqi province. as the. voice is one concern. is that it was late and is contaminated as mother and father. urine is contaminated by depleted uranium as it is there's the change up. of course we don't know whether there's tortures down in japanese valley to learn that we don't. bosnia was the iraqi province in which you do you minissha as were most heavily used. you know at this. juncture our lease says that radioactivity still lingers in many places he's convinced that this is what

lies behind the increase in cancers some of which are very rare. cancers which are related to radiation. loci emirs lymphoma as an soft tissue concern is. increased. to alarming a number on them particularly cancer called malignant fibrous as to a side tom which is close to related to radiation. i got until now twenty five cases so it's some something strange and give us clues to the effect of radiation on our patients but we should prove it.

another conflict in which the pleated you raney and weapons were officially used was the war in kosovo in one nine hundred ninety nine. in reprisal for ethnic cleansing policies against albanian coast of ours nato planes bombed serbian forces and yugoslav infrastructure. in that campaign serbian armored tanks and vehicles were attacked with dehumanisation so. a few months later the media reported an unusually high. a rate of leukemia and other cancers and the european veterans who had served in kossovo kalyan french spanish and others the term can syndrome was coined several organizations began to call for

a ban on dui weapons. nato had to call a meeting of the atlantic council to appease its allies once again the message was contradictory they had knowledge of the risks but downplayed them. we're confident that there is little risk for the u. munitions but we refuse to be complacent existing medical consensus is clear the hazard from depleted uranium is both very limited and limited to very specific circumstances but nature is doing everything it can to ensure that relevant information is made publicly available then we'll have encountered on experts have consistently denied that there is any cause and effect relationship between depleted uranium and the so-called balkan syndrome you have just pledged most nato authorities have agreed in the years since one nine hundred ninety nine no

indications have been given as to whether or not any medical follow up has been done on the soldiers supposedly exposed to depleted uranium in kosovo and member states about the precautions to be taken when it comes to depleted uranium in the goal. we have not been able to see any indication of any medical problem from those who had the highest exposure who were in or on a vehicle that was struck with depleted uranium and they about half the crew survived those hits half died and those that survived have not been able to see any medical problem now nine years later. and they had we know the highest exposure to the pleated uranium of anyone who served in the gold. rush or is that so much a site which of course he's going to. join battle lines over collective bargaining

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