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offering gaging with the definition of truth receiving controversial cash the nation's. that's a brings up and then i'll be back with more news for us and half an hour from now in the meantime a high tech weapon favored by several countries minute trees but as we reported depleted uranium is lethal to both friend and foe that's a special report next. for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. right here in the scenes. of the fall of two listed on the wall pensions but. i'm not sure if they remember each their view vom i was always tired of headaches will never go away laughs very sensitive to light as far as i am but the pain was just unbelievable that we were lead up like you know like fetuses in the

bed i paint. i do have. brain damage he desires i don't know we've lost all desire i know i'm not as active as they used to be going to sebastian talk about their. feelings just well surely in the mean sub office niggling pains noon again day sort of for the nation to be in and feed all the same of the chamber was caused by the depleted uranium that was better than the truth. from a meeting. with a person 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 guy or. girl words you can then just tell you kennie lies to cover up the you wish.

for the millennium it was a cold morning. and you my soul was. in finance you know never forget the soldiers take us on the way they held on to their families. and so much crime and sadness. come worry that she said. take care of my kids as if they were yours. i had to marry fall back. thank god he's come back even if he was. older because so many of them didn't.

woods and the new mothers smalls this summer. hector vega leopold 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 have been 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 so does. everything go off of this for a few months after being 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 were 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. sax. freedom rides i suspect the. most.

we were asked on back. and a break later we were. on prime the most obese day and products maximum security. i was lying we. as people were singing freedoms. and i was crying. because they were promising us. the cows are now. everybody i'm. surprised because. i'm going to do this rushed upon writing and i'm gonna look for the feeling. that's what motivates me.

as a three billion. and a zero hurried teen out. of the. foster bombs personnel land. it gives her news her of all it's in the. now oh sure it's the first thing every wednesday morning rain or shine for the past ten years martha 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 iraq and that this company still manufactures them. depleted uranium ore the human emissions have been the subject of heated debate because of the secondary effects they may have on the health of troops and civilians.

we want to change we want nuclear abolition way while we were against the weapons of mass destruction like you put it your radio broadcaster bob can't afford to drive those stray should ideally says we should not use any drugs less it is better clay safe and they tested well what they plated you're ready and we do it just the other there we go and use that as. a stylus just as they. yes but then radio. plays talk to the. whole. of the human issues 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 to penetrate or on impact means do you rounds cut through tank armor like a hot knife through butter fragments of burning d.-u. penetrate the crew compartment and incinerate everything in their path. a few weeks ago at this veterans hospital in illinois doug and 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 our injuries and our damage so would the extensive exposures that i hey are and again the uranium dust settling on the eye as a consequence over the years to 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 will 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 is units job was to clean out american tanks the quick to do minissha 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 during disease

dude occupational exposure to depleted uranium in my case and so we developed a rash on the rash a still would be a back to its rash right now was open and bleeding. my guys started dying and i was yelling real serious medical problems i couldn't get medical care. brooke a took part in a study commissioned by the pentagon on the after effects of depleted uranium munitions but what the study found was at odds with the official line and roquet ended up becoming an activist. no i'm not a peacenik i'm a warrior warrior that's finishing his job because as a person who was assigned responsibility to clean up the mess who was assigned a responsibility to the research who was assigned responsibility it right there army regulations which are formally adopted in absolute regard as you are sure who wrote the training programs i don't learn and what i learned scared.

battlefields and fire are ok took part in the production of this video it 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 do you think in part one it points out the risks of toxic contamination if just from these substances is swallowed or inhaled and it describes the hazards of finding out how much depleted uranium is in haled shroud 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 they probably cause it because of this binding the end 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 raj 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 in immediate hazard. bottom line unless you're involved in a defamation or fire with depleted uranium as are two 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 matthew went there with his unit their job was to scorch convoys. on the figure when you came home after the war and started having headaches easily irritated by the slightest thing kids may do has changed a lot you let me tell you something you've never had a headache that you have had six seven headaches a day and if you're terribly almost fifty six. i mean it's really debilitating and the headaches if you have yes they're they're short spaced but they come and go. well and another thing i get is it bumps and skin. really here. i think there's a fire front. 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 the results were a surprise. he says. you have four to eight times higher than other soldiers. which makes you gain the person that has the highest level. i said lead us to reason with my daughter kim and the way she is. 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 d. you. so yes i mean yeah i mean what i saw in deep down in my heart i knew that she was born like that even yesterday because of something he had about one of us and we started looking for answers on the internet i mean and i saw the baby i think i have the picture comes hand was identical to my daughter has no money and iraqi baby that i had been exposed to depleted uranium so by me for me

that's what the proof my baby's hand and the hands of that iraqi baby exposed by the figurine. natural uranium is made up of two isotopes ninety nine percent as you rhenium to thirty eight point seven percent is the more radioactive to thirty five. the nuclear industry uses isotope separation to produce enrich uranium which contains a higher concentration of uranium two three five this enrich uranium is more radioactive the natural uranium and excused in the manufacture of atomic weapons depleted uranium is the byproduct of this process it is less radioactive but it's still toxic and this is what's used to make antitank weapons.

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 and 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 standing in millions and millions of pounds own gain rid of your nuclear waste. good the way it's been there this immoral no earlies immoral. i believe it's illegal to. use it because it's highly effective that fly straight to it's highly lethal weapon. and being

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 depleted uranium to defend the weapon they've exaggerated the importance of it. but it was actually guided missiles had particular hellfire missile destroyed about a third of all the iraqi tanks that were destroyed. bernard roscoe 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 the people with gulf war illness are probably inconsistent with exposure to the pleading for any 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 depleted uranium is not related to the unexplained illnesses that we saw in the first gulf war. thank you. i. this is the center of amman the capital of jordan among the shoppers are all and how off to iraqi cancer specialists today they are sightseeing but they have come to a man to take part in an on call article 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

crippled and we are looking to people dying though any help from us or from others we could say we are crippled and or months are paid to get there because we haven't got the first is to treat our patients. both doctors work in a university hospital and they are taking part in a study funded by german universities to examine the soaring number of cancers in the iraqi province. was the only boy is one cancer. is the ms lazy and is contaminated as mother and father. urine is content in its depleted uranium as it is. of course we don't know whether this torture is done in japanese. we go on the.

bus route was the iraqi province in which do you minissha is were most heavily used . this. doctor or least 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 ok leukemias lymphoma as an soft tissue concern is. increased. two alarming number. but clearly so-called malignant fibrous is to a site tome which is close related to radiation. until now twenty five cases so is some something strange and it'd give us clues to the

effect of radiation on our patients but we should prove it. for. another conflict in which to pleated you raney and weapons were officially used was the war in kosovo in one nine hundred ninety nine. and 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 the human issue. a few months later

the media reported an unusually high rate of leukemia and other cancers and the european veterans who had served in kossovo talian french spanish and others the term balkan 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 they don't play them. we are confident that there is little risk for the u. munitions but we refuse to be complacent. the existing medical consensus is clear the hazard from depleted uranium is both a limited and limited to very specific circumstances but nature is doing everything

it can to ensure that relevant information is made publicly available they will have in pentagon experts have consistently denied that there is any cause and effect relationship between depleted uranium and the so-called balkan syndrome 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 go. 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 to be able it was struck with the polluted uranium a about half the crew survived those hits after i had and those that survived who have not been able to see any medical problem now and nine years later. and they

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