The implications of these numbers are numbing: the huge potential of so many Iraq war vets ill and dying and their wives vulnerable to becoming infected and to give birth to deformed offspring.
For the people of Iraq, living in areas of high DU concentrations, the effects are beyond tragic. Iraq babies are born so deformed that many are hardly recognizable as human babies.
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HAVE DU WILL TRAVEL is the heading for a series of excellent articles about DU availableat : http://lonestaricon.com/2006/Online/09iconoclast.pdf. See note 2 below
An Interview with Dr. Ernest Sternglass
By W. Leon Smith, Editor-in-Chief Lone Star Iconoclast, February 28, 2006
“ The issue of greatest concern is that Americans at home as well as the people in the UK and in many parts of the world are unwilling participants in this tragedy.
“... Measurements by the Weapons Establishment in England show that these fine particles travel thousands of miles around the world and, Leuren Moret has pictures that NASA satellites took showing the sand storms going across the Atlantic and all over the world so we have totally underestimated the very serious nature of the use of uranium as weapons.” “
Reference: see Note 2 below. page 7.
African Dust Storms Bring Depleted Uranium to the Southern U.S.
by Richard Stenger CNN, June 18, 2001
Dust storm plumes from northern Africa travel thousands of miles across the Atlantic transporting millions of tons of sand and dust with bacteria, viruses, pollen, pollution, and radioactive isotopes such as depleted uranium from the Middle East and Central Asia.1 The easterly trade winds carry the dust across the Atlantic in 5-7 days at about 10,000 feet.2 Almost all of it is rained out into the environment within two months, including the depleted uranium and other radioactive isotopes from the Sahara. In fact these atmospheric dusts are what make sunsets red. The seasonal African storms peak in July, contributing to a reddish haze across the U.S. Southeast. From June to October the Caribbean and Central America are targeted by the storms, but the Amazon Basin gets hit from February to April.
Did the use of Uranium weapons in Gulf War 2 result in contamination of Europe? Evidence from the measurements of the Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston, Berkshire, UK.
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The harsh and unfortunate reality we must consider is that given the global movement of dust storms like these, no one, ultimately anywhere in the world, is safe.
Do these issues deserve and demand our considered attention?
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