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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 the conflict that would be a different matter but the point is that this material is likely to affect its depleted uranium dust is likely to affect the civilian population. professor keith member stock is a british scientist specializing in radiation and the environment he was advisor to the world health organization best wrote a report highly critical of the human issuance the w.h.o. rejected his findings and that was not thanks they caved in under political pressure there's a geneva convention which says that all weapons of war must not adversely affect the health of the saluda population and i think there's enough evidence now to say that there's a high probability that the health. after. this

is the heart of america's grain bells 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 the human emissions for most of the medical problems connected to the war. the casualty rate for vietnam was approximately seven percent eight percent of those that serve here we're looking at over one per are now casualties already over thirty percent of everybody the service 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. we have pentagon has ended up saying that there is no danger at all from depleted uranium while some activists claim that it is a world threat roquet like many activists in the n.t. do you camp have 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 now it's one hundred twenty millimeter to your august aluminum r s one one hundred twenty millimeter do you rob. this is an aluminum up ok. so they say it's sixty percent net 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 emissions from the daughter products and probably a range of two thirty four to thirty five it's in there and from the two thirty six

i'd probably tony and up to me i'm an emory seal. over the years doug a real k. and some groups have continued to pursue the fight against a d u but the media has lost interest the issue had been politically dead for years at 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 an eight ring education dunder stand and 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 so we have something that's tantamount to an incredible crime against humanity all of us eat drink and breathe natural uranium every day. that every human being has about eighty micrograms of natural uranium in our bodies

and we excrete it in our urine every day where does the natural uranium come from it's in the soil and they are. 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 plated 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. because. 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 do you related harm among the thousands of soldiers who fought in the first gulf war. when

a veterans affairs is doing in 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 or the recent fests are there in your vision but not of the human beings it is mostly on animals and mostly the further for any. doctor a sufferer derogate it is a retired colonel he was a radiation specialist for the u.s. armed forces for many years the rock of age 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 the target. yury home project time that is made of the please get your a.t.m.

produces very high temperature. that impact. heats thus radioactive dust and depleted uranium in that infinitesimal number of the particles is spread in the atmosphere. be a. the single most dangerous. radiation that exists in the nature. of the group in the vicinity of known differentiated so produces so much heat and genetic changes including cancer and leukemia. wiping out of the immune system and so. i'm telling you here for the public to listen to these interview that's we are the evening we that greet and 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 engaging in 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 iraq 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 and rats can cause cancer but it's 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 the pentagon is not going to stop using this weapon until there is evidence of clear evidence of the 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 d. human emissions 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 munitions should have been removed from the battlefield and the whole area decontaminated this was not done conject frewer is in charge of the environment apartment in basra and has produced a map of radioactive contamination has discovered that radiation levels are quite high. our instruments are detecting this high levels of background radiation. we take samples for analysis by a gamma ray spectrograph. this is bad for a university hospital he 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 unit 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. over compare it to the years nineteen eighty nine that is three years before nine hundred ninety one was. and because genital 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 labeled 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 joining in and they sent me to see the doctor who recommended can the therapy and. i feel it was all caused by pollution from the war.

cattle if it's my illness was caused by there was hit and explosions in this place if people have the same illness said it didn't matter if it was it we shall prevail and they shall lose. now the doctors are carefully reviewing all the data so that they can publish the studies in prestigious scientific journals and this will validate their findings. we face a lot of problems and obstacles and doing our research and i think nobody wants us to prove but these concerns are due to the k.t. during an otherwise or last for compensation for compensation for twenty five million people in iraq and i live alone i should say yes.

as a specialist i can say what the increase in cancer rate is why. i believe cancer cases have risen. we need precise data. for a period of years before we can reach any scientific conclusions it is. 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. the doctors must prove that the increase in cancer is directly linked to do you and not to these other causes.

but the risks from you raney him are much more direct and evident among the soldiers there were nine hundred u.s. soldiers that the pentagon admits were strongly exposed to dilute 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 dui. 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 the 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 the 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 that the pentagon has said were heavily exposed and you know you have to ask why do they refuse to do a bigger studies it's the don't look don't find phenomena that i describe 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 actually have to. complete interesting and through much time on the gulf and through one thousand nine hundred ninety one and the shapes and through

the water ancient judgment. that. i don't have it basically which will be able trying to shape. to move the one not until we go to turn the water but it was a very nice ation i mean people think you could compensate but you never just recognize ation that. you know i'm right and it has do you prisoner. kenny duncan's case is unique he is the only serviceman who's 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 a 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 it was made of scotland. his questions for because i was pregnant it time. and it was over into nial because he

let me just back as he was always in pain in. the direction that was quite a 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 candy and man the suspect do you believe began a long legal battle which they unexpectedly one. paper house just tremendous this paper that your findings of fact. try if you know it's often excess i. decided yes kenny has got the page i am poisoning can he suffers from a chromosome elaboration that is caused only by d u and it was a clear cut case of cause and effect gets a war pension of just one hundred euros

a week he still has to work as a truck driver i need a security was going to happen in the future because he gets checked for cancer six months. i mean when i read it causes cancer yet i also want to write more of a church. the government of the time near the door. of an affair because resemble that of those problems. how much the government near you don't know suppose but since your name and i should change their admission 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.

he's so c.h. and 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 the veterans are still fighting a legal battle with the authorities there's never anything to do with depleted uranium they mislead people buying no say. what. depleted uranium was actually used to follow areas where. really bristow is in very poor health like kenny he's tested positive for do you poisoning with the government has refused to acknowledge that it has anything to do with his multiple illnesses. in the united nations so committee's declared that. it comes under the definition of

a weapon of mass and indiscriminate. because if they are for us health effects. that 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 pay no criminal.

gets much worse as is it what happened with asian or injury then i did for a long time and then they suddenly had this whole lot once they needed that there were some problems they began to huge cross in trying 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 he didn't 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 on veterans back in the pentagon tonight that agent orange posed any threat to u.s. soldiers who are exposed. during all those years of denial we stood by and did nothing while our soldiers suffered and for me there can be no war agent orange we have to think of that in terms of this do you if you do you possess is 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 leaves 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. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the ground floor should . we stop the future cover.

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