marine kenneth o'keefe he is the managing director for the sunni project and joins us live from gaza kind of thank you so much for being here it's great to have you back now you served as a u.s. marine in the one thousand nine hundred one gulf war which unfortunately is one of the first times where depleted uranium was used on the battlefield talk a little bit about your personal experiences with with the human missions. well you know i didn't know anything about it when i when i was in the marines back in the early ninety's and i only found out about it later and realized that you know i was in the areas where the stuff was used and my ex-wife actually had a couple of miscarriages by me and at that point i started to realize that i might very well have been had some of these do you just write ments and my wife actually our two and a half year old son was born to two months early a couple years back and i can tell you that there was some fear of what i have seen happening to the iraqi people i've been to southern iraq i visited the children's hospital down there and i have seen the e

marine kenneth o'keefe he gave us a personal account of how depleted uranium affect him during the gulf war. i didn't know anything about it when i when i was in the marines back in the early ninety's and i only found out about it later and realized that you know i was in the areas where this stuff was used and my ex-wife actually had a couple of miscarriages by me and i at that point i started to realize that i might very well have inhaled some of these fragments and my wife actually our two and a half year old son was born to two months early a couple years back and i can tell you that there was some fear of what i have seen happening to the iraqi people i've been surprised for and southern iraq i visited the children's hospital down there and i have seen the effects they have photo album after photo album of these babies that don't even look human and i think that the use of depleted uranium is pretty much the definition and definition of crime against humanity the sad reality is that using nguyen the so-called heroes i was called a hero as were all of us and the first gulf war we ar