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a weapon that strives down those from both sides of conflicts words used the dangers of depleted uranium is next. i un study has detected no signs of significant environmental problems in kossovo in the places where do you minissha is for use. the world health organization has also concluded that the risk posed by de weapons to the health of troops and civilians is relatively low but both reports concluded that more research was needed and that precautionary measures should be taken when using these weapons these recommendations have fallen on deaf ears if it was a matter that this was confined to the military and those people in a conflict that would be a different matter but the point is that this material is likely to affect and because uranium dust is likely to affect the civilian population. professor keith

laumer stock is a british scientist specializing in radiation and the environment he was advisor to the world health organization that a stark wrote a report highly critical of dehumanisation the w.h.o. rejected his findings and barbara starr thanks the caved in under political pressure there's a geneva convention which says that your weapons of war must not adversely affect the health of the civilian population and i think there's enough evidence now to say that there's a high probability that the health. effort. this is the heart of america's grain belt were major doug roquet retired after clashing with the pentagon over the effects of depleted uranium. but even retired he still

continues his battle against these munitions. the internet has proven to be a great weapon for him and he has become an expert on casualties and the after effects of the recent iraq war he blames d. human emissions for most of the medical problems connected to the war. because usually rape or be anonymous approximately seven percent eight percent of those who serve here will look at it over one third are now casualties already over thirty percent of everybody who served is now so bad off medically that they have to request permanent medical care and permanent pensions from the u.s. department of veteran affairs that's an incredible number. the pentagon has ended up saying that there is no danger at all from depleted uranium while some activists claim that it is the world's threat roquet like many activists in the n.t. do you camp i've been on both sides of the fence first as a member of the military establishment supporting the official line and then being

against it your theory you that's one hundred twenty millimeter to your august aluminum up that's one one hundred twenty millimeter to you oh this is an aluminum bottle ok. so they say it's sixty percent that less radioactive they totally ignore the other half of the paragraph that i wrote they totally ignore the alpha missions and they totally ignore all the beta gamma missions from the daughter products and from the range of two thirty four to thirty five it's in there and from the two thirty six would probably tony i'm back to yemen and reseal. over the years dug a and some groups have continued to pursue the fight against the do you like the media has lost interest the issue had been politically dead for years and least until recently when the possible after effects from the war in iraq have once again appeared you don't have to have a college degree you don't have to have a need for an education dunder stamp if you spread radioactive materials all over

somebody's backyard that you've got a problem it doesn't take into stein to understand if you inhale radioactive materials you can have chemical toxicity and radiological problems and you're going to get sick. we have something that's tantamount to an incredible crime against humanity all of us eat drink and breathe natural uranium every day. the average human being has about eighty micrograms of natural uranium in our bodies and we excrete it in our urine every day where does a natural uranium come from it's in the soil. in a square mile one foot deep there four tons of natural uranium. so it's out there and so when we take a look at the pleated uranium being used in battle and rounds being fired and going into the soil the amount of uranium that depleted uranium is adding to that that's

already there is really very very small. the pentagon says that it has spent millions of dollars on researching the health impact of depleted uranium in a special office set up to study the impact of wars on soldiers health says that it has found no evidence of deep you related harm among the thousands of soldiers who fought in the first gulf war. when a veterans affairs is doing a mortality study looking at the death rate of those who went to those who didn't go. there is no difference in the death rate and there is no difference in the causes of death from disease to cancer to homicide to suicide to you name it oh yes these are his arms of the recent tests are there in your view but not to the human beings it is mostly on animals and most of us are of the very meat. dr

suffered a drop of it is a retired colonel he was a radiation specialist for the u.s. armed forces for many years iraq of its analyze data on the national guard soldiers from new york who were poisoned by. d.-u. the study led to a bitter controversy with the pentagon. when it hits their targets. during young project i'm that is made of depleted uranium produces very high temperature. that impact creates dust radioactive dust and depleted uranium and that infinitesimal number of the particles is spread in the transferred. those single most dangerous. radiation that exists in their nature.

as they grow in the vicinity of known differentiated so produces so much think and genetic changes including cancer leukemia. and wiping out of the immune system and so. i'm telling you here for the public to listen to these interview that's where the inning with that create. danger for them on the planet earth. on this issue you have a lot of propaganda that's come from the u.s. government but you have a lot of people who are in my opinion gauging and propaganda coming from the other side as well making claims that are not backed up by evidence about depleted uranium and it's really kind of obscured you know what i consider a middle ground reality. then fay he is

a retired navy lieutenant and veteran of the first gulf war since his discharge he has campaigned against it do you but he disagrees with durak of it. he believes their statements go too far and their studies and findings are flawed he believes more rigorous studies are needed we have a lot of scientific evidence showing depleted uranium in rats can cause cancer but you know it at what point do you stop studying rats and start studying the humans who are exposed and that's where i think we're at now and that's where you need the foundation that the pentagon is not going to stop using this weapon until there is evidence of clear evidence of effects of human populations. in southern iraq is now under british military control the city has been on the frontline during three wars in the last twenty five years first. it was the iran

iraq war then operation desert storm finally this is where anglo american troops began the invasion to overthrow saddam hussein. there are no official statistics on the amount of dehumanisation used in iraq but estimates are between four hundred and four thousand tons and now long after the two thousand and three bombings geiger counters still detect radioactivity from spent the you munitions in areas outside the city. according to u.n. recommendations and u.s. military regulations vehicles hit by do you mean a shins should have been removed from the battlefield and the whole area decontaminated this was not done. through or is in charge of the environment of harvin in basra and has produced a map of radioactive contamination has discovered that radiation levels are quite high. our instruments detect high levels of

background radiation made and we take samples for analysis by a gamma ray specular. this is bad for a university hospital it used to be called the saturn hussein hospital and recently it's been renamed sutter hospital after a local shiite leader. those in charge of the cancer you have raised the alarm over the soaring number of cases they suspect the d.-u. is to blame. the. mortalities has been increased nine to nineteen times. if we compare it to the years nineteen eighty nine that is three years before ninety nine to one wars. and the congenital birth defects increased by seven times. similar allegations were made in the late one nine hundred ninety s. when saddam hussein was still in power then the accusations were labelled

propaganda but now many particularly patients are convinced the deal is responsible . to natasha to some guy i had a terrible headache. and i had a fever as well. and they sent me to see the doctor who recommended in the therapy and. i felt it was all caused by pollution from the our. cattle feed and my illness was caused by the was here and explosions. loads of people have the same illness said it did but if there was it we shall prevail and they shall miss. now the doctors are carefully reviewing all the data so that they can publish the studies in prestigious scientific journals this will validate their findings.

we face a lot of problems and obstacles in doing our research and i think nobody want us to prove but these concerns are due to depleted uranium otherwise were lost for compensation for compensation for twenty five million people in iraq. as a specialist i can't say what the increase in cancer rates is or why. i believe cancer cases have risen. we need precise data. for a period of years before we can reach any scientific conclusions and it is

a disease. in iraq there have been many toxic agents such as smoke from the oil wells that were set on fire and contamination from factories that were bombed. but doctors must prove that the increase in cancer is directly linked to do you and not to these other causes. but the risks from your amy and are much more direct and evident among the soldiers there were nine hundred u.s. soldiers that the pentagon admits were strongly exposed to d. dust in combat. the pentagon says these soldiers despite being highly exposed to do you suffered no abnormal health problems it was the strongest official argument for denying the dangers of d.-u. . in

a fourteen year study commissioned by the veterans administration dr melissa mcdermott has been studying a group of soldiers affected by do you split the veterans into those who only inhaled do you dust and those who have had do you shrapnel in their bodies. looking at the whole group based on their low versus the high uranium we don't see large differences between the two groups i would also like to make the point that an elevated here in your rainy i'm fourteen years after you were exposed is not normal so by no means are we saying that we haven't found anything it's very complicated isn't it at least at present fourteen years out from first exposure in one nine hundred ninety one we are not seeing health differences that we would have expected to see that were uranium based the reality is just thirty two people in that program out of the nine hundred the pentagon has said were heavily exposed and you

know you have to ask why do they refuse to do a bigger study it's the don't look don't find phenomena that are described for you know they don't want to know the answer and they are content to keep manipulating this very small study of veterans which really is not serving any scientific purpose they take shape to go to clean terrain and through much time on the gulf and through one thousand nine hundred ninety one and one and the shapes going through the water ancient job human. that. which will be will try to see. to move the one not and so we go. but it was victimization i mean people think you could compensate but you never have just recognize ation that. you know today i am right and he has do you prisoner. kenny duncan's case is unique he is the only service man whose illness has been

officially recognized by the british government as stemming from exposure to di you can he and his wife mandy served in the armed forces he was a driver in the first gulf war he had to transport demolished iraqi tanks the war left its scars not only on kenny's life but on the rest of his family his ordeal began just a few months after he returned from kuwait to his native scotland. his questions for because i was pregnant it time. and he was over it and. because i mean it is rock as he is always in pain and as stated addressing that was quite a concern of the time because nobody knew what it was. but the worst was yet to come all three children suffer from congenital health disorders kenneth the eldest is the worst affected and has undergone eleven operations this is what made kenny

and man the suspect do you think they began a long legal battle which they unexpectedly won that paper house just commend us this paper sachet the findings of fact. and try to you know itself and assess i. decided yes kenny has got to be a trainee and poisoning can he suffers from a chromosome all aberration that is caused only by d u and it was a clear cut case of cause and effect he gets a war pension of just one hundred euros a week and he still has to work as a truck driver i need to security was going to happen because he gets checked for cancer six months. i mean when i read it causes cancer yeah i also want to write more of a church you're good a shape that a government of the time. and or have an affair because resemble

a decent year that abuse problems. how much the government near you don't know supposed. censure name and that i should change their mission you don't trust any politicians. really bristow as president of the british gulf war veterans association helped kenny duncan get his war pension he is also a do you victim. troops. this so ca sion hasn't managed to get the courts to rule the dui is the cause of many veterans illnesses fifteen years after the first gulf war veterans are still fighting a legal battle with the authorities there's never anything to do with depleted uranium they mislead people rhyno say.

what. you preach dear amy i'm was actually just who had to follow aries where. ray bristow is in very poor health like kenny he's tested positive for d'you poisoning but the government has refused to acknowledge that it has anything to do with his multiple illnesses. in the united nations some committees declare that. it comes under the definition of a weapon of mass. indiscriminate destruction because surf the health effects. they will have on the combatants of both sides after the war the civilian population and the environment so. i would shut them out so somebody you

know criminal. is much what it is and what happened with asian or in germany then i did for a long time and then they suddenly had this whole wad once they did that there were some problems they began to have a huge cause and try to deal with it and that's really what they're trying to do is just cut off the benefits and and if somebody gets cancer or whatever they're going to blame it on something else. thousands of tons of agent orange were sprayed over

vietnam during the war there in the sixty's. agent orange is a powerful defoliant and it was used to destroy jungle like areas where gorillas could hide during the vietnam war. but aren't also contain dioxins a poison that continues to contaminate the environment and the people. after a long legal and political battle the us government authorized compensation for the veterans and their children who had been affected by thousands of vietnamese some of them third generation who suffer from illnesses and birth defects are still fighting for compensation. congressman jim mcdermott as a young doctor saw firsthand the effects of agent orange on american soldiers last may mcdermott introduced an amendment forcing the government to conduct a comprehensive study on the health effects of dui and veterans back then pentagon tonight that age in orange posed any threat to u.s.

soldiers who are exposed. during all those years of denial we stood by did nothing while our soldiers suffered and for me there can be no more agent orange we have to think of that in terms of this. do you it d. you possesses no danger or poses no danger we need to prove it statistically and with independent scientific studies we owe our soldiers a full measure of the truth where ever that leads us. mcdermott's amendment passed its first hurdle and the amendment is agreed to. but there's no guarantee that this will become law that the us or any other country using do you honestly examine its effects on those who fire the weapons on those who were fired upon and on the entire globe.

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