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our un study has detected no signs of significant environmental problems in kossovo and the places where do you minissha is were used. in the world health organization has also concluded that the risk posed by d. 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 will tiriel is likely to affect as

depleted uranium dust is likely to affect the civilian population. professor keith laumer stock is a british scientist specializing in radiation in the environment he was advisor to the world health organization about a stark wrote a report highly critical of the human issuance the w.h.o. rejected his findings and that restock thinks they 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. after. 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 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.-u. minish and for most of the medical problems connected to the war. the casualty rate for vietnam was approximately seven percent eight percent of those that served here we're looking at over one third are now casualties already over thirty percent of everybody the service is now so bad off medically good 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 a world threat roquet like many activists in the n.t.

you can't 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 everything you know that's one hundred twenty millimeter to your august aluminum i'll have one one hundred twenty millimeter to you rob this is a whole new model 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 operations and they totally ignore all the beta gamma emissions from the daughter products and from the rainy up to thirty four to thirty five it's in there and from the two thirty six i'd probably tony and up tony i'm an emory seal. over the years doug roquet 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 a need for an education dunder stamp if you spread radioactive materials all over somebody's backyard that you got a problem it doesn't take into an einstein 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 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 the depleted uranium is adding to that that's already there is really very very small but. 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. we're going to 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 or the recent tests are there in your vision but not other human beings it is mostly on animals and mostly the very very very mixed. dr derogative 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. called rent it hits the target if you're a new project i'm that is made of the please give you a new produces very high temperature. that impact. heats bust the radioactive dust and the good radium in that infinitesimal number of the particles is spread in the atmosphere.

be a. there's single most dangerous. radiation that exists in the nature. of the group in the vicinity of known differentiate it so produce is so much the genetic changes including cancer and the. 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 ending we that concrete 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. day and 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 which. 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 it's you know it at what point do you stop studying rats and start studying 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 effects in 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. 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 dehumanization 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 minissha ins 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 her been 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 spectrograph. this is bad for a university hospital they 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 the nine hundred ninety one wards. and because genital birth defects increased 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. can it cash out of saddam i had a terrible headache. and i had a fever as well. 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 in fiji my illness was caused by the was here and explosions. loads of people have the same illness said it did not if there was it we shall prevail and they should 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 wants us to prove but these are due to depleted uranium otherwise we will ask 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 instead to zero . 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 d.-u. and not to these other causes. but the risks from uranium 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 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 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 now 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 study it's the don't look don't find phenomena other describe 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 actually have to. complete entering and through much time under gulf and through one thousand nine hundred ninety nine and one and the shapes and through the water ancient judgment and the who doesn't have it very slowly but surely we're trying to she. will be one not and so we go. get to know what french well it was a second isolation i mean people think you compensate but you never have just recognize ation that. you know to get rid of him right and he has do you put in.

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 kenny 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 elected scars not only on kenny's life but on the rest of his family his ordeal began just a few months after you return from kuwait it was made of scotland. is quite stressful because i was pregnant it. and it was over into nial because it made us react as it was in pain and as this hit it and it was quite a concern a time because nobody knew what it what. 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 how to us tremendous this paper that your findings of fact. try if you know itself and assess i. why they decided yes kenny has got to pay janie and poisoning 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 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 has checked for cancer for six months. i think when i read it causes cancer. i also want to write more of a church a. government of the time near it or have

an affair because resembles that of the problems. how much the government year you don't know suppose but since your name and actually 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 d. you victim. troops. he's so c.h. and hasn't managed to get the courts to rule the day you 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 by no say. what. depleted uranium was actually used when the follow aries were. read bristow is in very poor health like kenny 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 so committee's declared that. it comes under the definition of a weapon of mass and indiscriminate destruction because if they at first health effects. that 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 pay no criminal. it's much what as is it what happened with asian origin me than i did for a long time and then they said they had his whole lot once they needed that there were some problems they began to have huge costs 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 guerrillas 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 do you want veterans back then the

pentagon tonight that agent orange posed any threat to u.s. soldiers who were exposed during all those years of denial we stood by and did nothing while our soldiers suffered and for me there can be no more agent orange we have to think. in terms of this 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 where ever that leads us. mcdermott's amendment passed its first hurdle in 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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