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The 1st Gulf war of 1991 was the first war in which weapons containing the bunker busting Depleted Uranium,( known as DU),was widely used. DU “is a weakly radioactive element, occurs naturally in soil and water everywhere on Earth, but mainly in trace quantities. Humans ingest it daily in minute quantities.” “But the radioactivity is only one concern about DU munitions. A second, potentially more serious hazard is created when a DU round hits its target. As much as 70 percent of the projectile can burn up on impact, creating a firestorm of ceramic DU oxide particles. The residue of this firestorm is an extremely fine ceramic uranium dust that can be spread by the wind, inhaled and absorbed into the human body and absorbed by plants and animals, becoming part of the food chain.”1 How Much Did We Use ? |
New DU Story In Dec 2004 Vanity Fair | |||
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From the Hotbed: What
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Seattle PI
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From the Expert:
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A
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Iraq - Lots of Pie Charts and Graphs - none of it pretty. |
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We used 375 tons of DU in 1991 Some More Numbers: 696,579 soldiers fought in the 1st Gulf War 240,000 have applied for disability since the war (2004) (34%) 161,000 were granted disability by 2002 11,000 have died since the war (keep in mind the average age of these veterans was 37) this number was reported in 2002. |
Article: Weapons Dust Worries Iraq |
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Did We Use This Time? (2003) 1,100 – 2,200 tons of DU. Between the U.S. and the British. A lot of it in residential areas. When they dropped the "bunker buster" bombs, those are the ones that contain DU and that was what they used on Saddam's Palaces hoping to get to his bunker beneath. |
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| And What About The Civilians? | ||||
| 400 percent increase in cancer cases among the Iraqi population since 1991. Rates of cancer, childhood leukemia and congenital birth defects among Iraqi civilians have increased dramatically. According to hospital sources in the southern city of Basra, since 1991 there has been an alarming rate of deformed infants born without brains, arms and legs,or eyes. | ||||
| Another note on DU in Basra from UK paper | ||||
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| Studies - you ask? | ||||
| According to the GAO (Government Accountability Office) There have been 240 studies done on Gulf War Syndrome, of the ones to include the effects of DU, (which were inconclusive), none of them looked at the effects of inhaled DU. 1 | ||||
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The 1st Study to look at Inhaled DU "Dr. Asaf Durakovic, director of the private, non-profit Uranium Medical Research Centre in Canada and the United States, and center research associates Patricia Horan and Leonard Dietz, published a unique study in the August issue of Military Medicine medical journal. The study is believed to be the first to look at inhaled DU among Gulf War veterans, using the ultrasensitive technique of thermal ionization mass spectrometry, which enabled them to easily distinguish between natural uranium and DU. The study, which examined British, Canadian and U.S. veterans, all suffering typical Gulf War Syndrome ailments, found that, nine years after the war, 14 of 27 veterans studied had DU in their urine. DU also was found in the lung and bone of a deceased Gulf War veteran. That no governmental study has been done on inhaled DU "amounts to a massive malpractice," Dietz said in an interview last week."1 |
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| Verified DU exposure adverse health effects include: (a) Reactive airway disease, (b) neurological abnormalities, (c) kidney stones and chronic kidney pain, (d) rashes, (e) vision degradation, night vision losses, and catarcts (f) gum tissue problems, (g) lymphoma, (h) various forms of skin and organ cancer, (I) neuro-psychological disorders, (j) uranium in semen, (k) sexual dysfunction, and (l) birth defects in offspring. 2 | ||||