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long lines for many people slowly returning to me but some western states paint a different picture calling for a no fly zone and seeking possible military intervention. and making the reset to me why the u.s. vice president visits moscow backing that made for russia's world trade organization ready to share oscar has been the case he's a seat in the trade informers twenty years with washington now lending its strong support to the base. now many american and british soldiers who served in iraq have complained about the rainy and related illnesses and he's both the good and the british ministry of defense of a cover up next we meet some of the stuff in veterans. my own the sins. of the fall too nice to have on my wall pensions but. i'm not sure if i remember each and every one i was always tired

headaches will never go away what's very sensitive to the lights from his eyes and what the pain was just unbelievable that we will lead up like you know like fetuses in the bed i think they. do have. friends i made sure he desires i don't know we've lost all desires i'm not as accusations to be going to this about them talk about that i. mean just hope will surely mean some bosses niggling pains noone again placeholder for the nation to being in pain all the same the tumor was caused by the depleted uranium that was better than the truth. what's prison the others they keep bringing up the issue that is not really. it's there bring something else all you getting all the guys. are all words and they just tell you can he lies to cover

up for the you wish. for the moment it was a cold morning. and you my soul was in finance new power though never forget the sojitz make us on the way to hell don't to their families. and so much crime and it's. sadness. from worry that she said. take care of my kids as if they were you most. looking to. be back.

very good thank god she's come back even if she was. with her because so many of them didn't. which are many mothers lost this summer. after vega 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 and became a military policeman you never saw a live combat. if this is. an error akki soldier is. everything to go off of this for a few months after being in iraq or started feeling ill suffering from intense migraine headaches and muscular pain and was declared unfit for service was discharged and he returned home and peace 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. protesting for what he sees as a just cause he has fought many such peaceful battles in his lifetime he's even won some. sacks.

freedom rides i suspect the. jackson. brass back. and away who later we were. on primed the most up the sky prose and i'm gone in maximum security. i was lying there we. as people were some freedoms. and i was crying not because they were punishing us. because the good ol developing. everybody. sighs. i'm going to do this last the i'm writing and i'm gone look for the feeling. i'll try motivates me.

a line. three beyond and what happens. they may call her eating out. now so the. last. anti-personnel mines it gives her all its and the world. now sure is 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 the p.t. do rainin weapons were used in the war in arrests and that this company still manufactures them. depleted uranium ore dehumanisation have been the subject of heated debate because of the secondary effects they may have on the health of

troops and civilians. because we want a change we want nuclear abolition way while we were against the weapons of mass destruction like you planted uranium. sure footed right of those ration ideally says we should not use any drugs less it is better to play safe had a tested well with a plated you're ready and we do it just the other three we go and use those as always five dollars a stylus those are saying yes to this. radio. plays talk that the . whole.

human issues were 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 if. the penetrators are not explosives they are flesh ships or bullets like spin those of depleted uranium a very dense self igniting metal those characteristics and the enormous kinetic energy released by the penetrator 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 incinerated everything in their path.

a few weeks ago at this veterans hospital in illinois doug a 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 you're a musician with injuries and eye damage so with the extensive exposures that i had and again the uranium dust settling on the eye as a consequence over the years and develop a cataract. in one thousand nine hundred ninety one when he was still in the army and after land combat in kuwait in a. back 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 his unit's job was to clean out american tanks equipped with. that had been destroyed by friendly fire i started getting sick in 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 early disease dude occupational exposure to depleted uranium in my case and so we developed the rash the rash is still with me a back that's rash right now was open and bleeding was my guy started dying and i wished i would real serious medical problems i couldn't get medical care. rule k. 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 roky ended up becoming an anti dui activist. no i'm not a peace. i'm a warrior award that finishing his job because as a person who was assigned a responsibility to clean up the mess who was assigned the responsibility to do the research he was assigned a responsibility to write the army regulations which are formally adopted and

actually regard as you are sure who wrote the training programs i learned and what i learned scared. battlefields and fighting 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 for years and 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 depending on how much. depleted uranium isn't haled swallowed 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 to d.n.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 an immediate hassle. bottom line unless you're involved in a death nation or fire with depleted uranium as are jar 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 score convoys. one of the one who came home after the war and he started having headaches easily irritated by the slightest thing the kids may do has changed a lot like you let me tell you something you've never heard of a headache that you have had six seven headaches a day and any fatalities weighed almost fifty six. i mean it's really debilitating and the headaches that you have yes they're they're short spaced but they come and go. all in another thing i guess he said bumps and skin. really here really here he. was ok

here's a letter from. my finally a 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 said. you have forty times higher than other soldiers. which makes you gain the person that has the highest level. i said maybe that's the reason why my daughter came up the way she did. 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 de younger. so yes i mean yeah i mean what i saw deep down in my heart i knew that she was gone like that even yes because of something he had about. one of us we started looking for answers on the internet i

mean and i was so the i think i have the picture comes hand was identical to my daughter as well the money and iraqi baby that i had been exposed to depleted uranium so i mean for me that was the proof my baby's hand and the hand of that iraqi baby in fact the figurine. natural uranium is made up of two isotopes ninety nine percent as you raney into thirty eight point seven percent is the more radioactive uranium two thirty five. the nuclear industry uses isotope separation to produce enriched uranium which contains a higher concentration of uranium two thirty five this enriched uranium is more radioactive the natural uranium and it's used in the manufacture of atomic weapons depleted uranium is the byproduct of this process it is less radioactive but it still toxic and this is what's used to make antitank weapons.

do 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 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. the nuclear energy program is several millions of millions of pounds of gain rid of you know nuclear waste. put the way they serve in moral you know early is immoral. i believe it's illegal. to use it because it's

highly effective that fly straight it's highly lethal up on. 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 the loss of lives by taking away both protection and the super bowl super bowl weapon the pentagon is kind of oversold me importance of to clue to train him to defend the weapon they've exaggerated the importance of it. but it was actually guided missiles had in particular hellfire missile destroyed about a third of all the iraqi tanks that were destroyed. bernard roster 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 people with all four elements are totally inconsistent with exposure to a legal 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 and 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 hourly and how off to iraqi cancer specialists today they are sightseeing but they have come to a man to take part in an uncool logical 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 triple and we are looking to people dying with boat any help from us or from others we could say we are crippled and or bones are tied together because we haven't got the first silly t's 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 for soaring number of cancers in that iraqi province. as the. boy is one cancer. is they. is contaminated as mother and father. you are and is contaminated by it during you as it is there's the danger of.

of course we don't know whether this torture is done in japanese. we're gone. bosnia was the iraqi province in which you do you minissha as 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. you came in as. far as an soft tissue concern has. increased. two alarming number. particularly so-called malignant fibrous is to

a site film which is close to related to radiation. until now twenty five cases so it's some something strange and give us clues to be faked of radiation on our mission but we should prove it's all. another conflict in which depleted uranium weapons were officially used was the war in kosovo in one nine hundred ninety nine. in reprisal for ethnic cleansing policies against albanian coast of ours natal claims 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 in 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 d. u.s. . nato had to call a meeting of the atlantic council to appease its allies once again the message was contradictory they had knowledge the risks but downplayed them. we're confident that there is little risk vu munitions but we refuse to be complacent. the existing medical consensus is clear the hazard from depleted uranium is both very limited

and limited to very specific circumstances but nature is doing everything it can to ensure that relevant information is made publicly available then will have encountered on experts have consistently denied that there is any cause and effect relationship between depleted uranium and the so-called balkan syndrome just because 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 a vehicle that was struck with the polluted uranium grade about half the crew

survived those it's half tied and those that survived have not been able to see any medical problem now nine years later. and they had we know the highest exposure to the pleated uranium of anyone who served in the gulf. yes my name is daniel schmidt this is joining us on the we're here to make a short presentation of all that we can fix project. the first. in the fourth day anything to get information out about the real world. to him war yeah and i. think this is a because. you know to be a good marketer. if i put in the sauce this in danger

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