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age. our un study has detected no signs of significant environmental problems in kossovo in the places where d'you minissha is were used. in the world health organization has also concluded that the risk posed by g. weapons to the health of troops and civilians is relatively low but both reports concluded that more research was needed and that proportionally 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 this

because uranium dust is likely to affect the civilian population. professor keith laumer such as 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 claims 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 civilian population and i think there's enough evidence now to say that there is a high probability that their health will be efforts. to . this is the heart of america's grain belt where major drug roquet retired after

clashing with the pentagon over the effects of depleted uranium. but even retired he still continues his battle against these wee nations. 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.-u. minissha for most of the medical problems connected to the war. the casualty rate for vietnam was crushed only seven percent eight percent of those who served here will look at it over one third are now casualties already over thirty percent of every one of the services 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. look 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 have been on both sides of the fence first as a member of the military establishment supporting the official line and then the against it here's the you that's one hundred twenty millimeter to you on this little wound them up that's one one hundred twenty millimeter to you oh this isn't a little number 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 from a range of two thirty four to thirty five it's in there and from the two thirty six would probably tony i'm deputy m n n reseal. over the years and dug a real k. and some groups have continued to pursue the fight against the 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 eighth grade education to understand that if you spread radioactive materials all over somebody's backyard that you've got a problem it doesn't take a nice time to understand that 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. 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 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 plated uranium being used in battle and rounds being fired and going

into the soil the amount of your rainy on the depleted uranium is adding to that it'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 do 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 death rates of those who went to those who didn't go. there is no difference in the death rate and there is no difference and 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 thoughts of the human beings it is mostly on animals and most of the earth their families. dr a suffer a drop of 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. you the study led to a bitter controversy with the pentagon. when it hits the target. of your radio project time that is made of the please give us a you produces very high temperature. that impact. keats dust radioactive dust and depleted uranium and that infinitesimal number of the particles is spread in the atmosphere.

the single most dangerous. ideation that they just in the nature. of the group in the vicinity of known differentiated so produce is so much big 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 this interview that we are the inning with that concrete and danger for the 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 iraq a veteran roquet 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 of the pentagon is not going to stop using his weapon until there is evidence of clear evidence of effects and 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 conject frewer 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. 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.c.u. is to blame. the. mortalities has been increased nine to nineteen times. if we compare it to the year of nineteen eighty nine that is three years before nine hundred ninety one wars. 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 labelled propaganda but now many particularly patients are convinced the deal is responsible . to natasha to the guy had a terrible headache. and i had a fever as well. and they sent me to see the doctor who recommended camel therapy and. i felt it was all caused by pollution from the war. and harrell my illness was caused by the was here and explosions. loads of people have the same illness said it did but if the world's 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 in doing our research and i think nobody want us to prove but these concerns are due to depleted uranium otherwise we're lost for compensation for compensation for twenty five million people in iraq. as a specialist i can't 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 and insurgency. 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 reign 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 did you 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 a point that an elevated here in uranium 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 of 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 other described for of 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 the depleted uranium and through much time on the gulf and through one thousand nine hundred ninety one and one and only shapes and through the water ancient judgment. that. basically will shortly we're trying to see. movement one not and children. well it was a victimization i mean people think you could compensate but you never have just

recognize ation that. you know that i'm right and he has to you for his name. 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 d. 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 question as far as i was pregnant it time. and it was over and into nile because i mean it is rock is always in pain in. a dress and it 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 kenny and man the suspect do you believe began a long legal battle which they unexpectedly won that paper house us tremendous this paper sasheer the findings of fact. chive you know it's not an excess i. decided yes kenny has got to create a employs name can he suffers from a chromosomal aberration that is caused only by d. you 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 only just a casual is going to happen in the future because he gets checked for cancer six months. i mean when i read it causes cancer yeah i also went right where it shared

. your government of the time. or action of an affair because resemble that of the problems. how much the government near you don't know is supposed to sense your name and not actually change their mission you don't trust their little efficiency. great bristow as president of the british gulf war veterans association helped kenny duncan get his war pension he is also a d. you victim. troops. this so see asian hasn't managed to get the courts to rule the d u 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 the clean air

they mislead people rhino say. depleted uranium was actually used to move to follow areas where. really bristow is in very poor health like he's tested positive for do 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 if they are first health effects. that i will have on the combatants of both sides after the war the civilian population and the

environment so. i would suck him out some somebody be no criminal i. would but. it's much worse as is what happened with asian origin and 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 have 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 agent orange also contained 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 but 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 then the

pentagon tonight at aging orange posed any threat to u.s. soldiers who were exposed during all those years of denial we stood by did nothing while our soldiers suffered and for me there can be no more asian orange we have to thank. of that in terms of those do you 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 wherever that leads us. mcdermott's amendment passed its first hurdle in the united is agreed to. but there's no guarantee that this will become law at the us or any other country using do you honestly examine its effects on those who fired the weapons and those

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