Depleted Uranium Detected in UK Atmosphere

" Bill Kingsbury " <kingsbry

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:13:54 -0800

Depleted Uranium Detected in UK Atmosphere

 

 

 

 

 

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U.S. WEAPONS POISON EUROPE

 

RADIATION FROM IRAQ WAR DETECTED IN UK ATMOSPHERE

 

By Leuren Moret

Updated March 4, 2006

 

A shocking new scientific study by British scientists Dr.

Chris Busby and Saoirse Morgan asks: " Did the use of uranium

weapons in Gulf War II result in the contamination of Europe? "

 

High levels of depleted uranium (DU) have been measured in the

atmosphere in Britain, transported on air currents from the

Middle East and Central Asia. Scientists cited the U.S.

bombing of Tora Bora, Afghanistan in 2001 and the " Shock and

Awe " bombing during Gulf War II in Iraq in 2003 as one of the

main reasons.

 

In the 1950s the British government had established an air

monitoring facility at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE)

in Aldermaston to measure radioactive emissions from British

nuclear power plants and atomic weapons facilities.

 

Ironically, AWE was taken over three years ago by Halliburton,

which at first refused to release key data as required by law

to Busby.

 

An international expert on low-level radiation, Busby serves

as an official advisor on several British government

committees. He recently co-authored an independent report on

low-level radiation with 45 scientists with the European

Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR) for the European Parliament.

 

Busby was eventually able to get Aldermaston's air monitoring

data from Halliburton by filing a freedom of information

request using a new British law that became effective Jan. 1,

2005. Critical data from 2003 was missing, however, so he had

to obtain the information from the Defence Procurement Agency.

 

Aldermaston is one of many nuclear facilities throughout

Europe that regularly monitor atmospheric radiation levels

transported by sand, dust storms and air currents from

radiation sources in North Africa, the Middle East and

Central Asia.

 

After the " Shock and Awe " campaign in Iraq in 2003, very fine

particles of depleted uranium were captured along with larger

sand and dust particles in filters in Britain. These particles

traveled in seven to nine days from Iraqi battlefields as far

away as 2,400 miles.

 

The radiation measured in the atmosphere quadrupled within a

few weeks after the beginning of the 2003 campaign, and at one

of the five monitoring locations, the levels twice required an

official alert to the British Environment Agency.

 

In addition, according to Busby, the Aldermaston air

monitoring data provided a continuous record of depleted

uranium levels in Britain from other recent wars.

 

Extensive video news footage of the 2003 Iraq war, including

Fallujah in 2004, provided evidence that the United States has

illegally used depleted uranium munitions on civilian

populations. These military actions are in direct violation

of not only international conventions but also violate U.S.

military law because the United States is a signatory to The

Hague and Geneva conventions and the 1925 Geneva Gas Protocol.

 

Depleted uranium weaponry meets the definition of a weapon of

mass destruction (WMD) in two out of three categories under

U.S. Code Title 50, Chapter 40 Sec. 2302. After action

mandates have also been violated such as U.S. Army Regulation

AR 700-48 and TB 9-1300-278, which requires treatment of

radiation poisoning for all casualties, including enemy

soldiers and civilians.

 

In the mainstream press, British officials have attempted to

counter the study by blaming the elevated uranium levels on

" local sources. " Anonymous statements by government scientists

used by the media thus far, however, have been contradicted by

evidence disclosed in the report.

 

Naturally occurring uranium in the crust of the Earth is only

2.4 parts per million and could not become concentrated to the

high levels measured in Britain. As far as nuclear power

plants are concerned, the lowest levels of uranium measured at

monitoring stations around Aldermaston were actually taken at

the facility, which designs and tests nuclear weapons --

meaning this could not possibly be a source.

 

Atomic weapons facilities would be more likely to produce

plutonium contamination, which was not reported as a

contaminant.

 

This wasn't the first time a noted scientist has discussed

global pollution from the use of DU.

 

Dr. Keith Baverstock, an expert on radiation, exposed a World

Health Organization (WHO) cover-up on depleted uranium.

Baverstock leaked an official WHO report that he had written

for the organization but was never published. He warned in

the report about the environmental contamination from tiny

DU particles formed from U.S. munitions.

 

In addition, Dr. Katsuma Yagasaki, a Japanese physicist at the

University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, estimated that the

atomic equivalent of at least 400,000 Nagasaki bombs has been

released into the global atmosphere since 1991 from the use of

DU munitions. He said it is mixed in the atmosphere in one

year.

 

 

DU PROFITS

 

As if Busby's report is not bad enough, a new book by a

leading scientist notes who is making billions from nightmare

armaments.

 

Dr. Jay Gould revealed in his book The Enemy Within that the

British royal family privately owns investments in uranium

holdings worth over $6 billion through Rio Tinto Mines in

Australia. The mining company was formed for the British royal

family in the late 1950s by Roland Walter " Tiny " Rowland, who

was known as the queen's banker and the master financial

manipulator behind billionaire Robert Maxwell's fortune.

 

The Rothschilds are also profiting enormously from their

control of the price and supply of uranium globally.

 

The ubiquitous Halliburton just recently finished construction

of a 1,000-mile railway from the mining area to a port on the

north coast of Australia to transport the ore.

 

The queen's favorite American buccaneers, Dick Cheney and the

Bush family, are tied to her through uranium mining and the

shared use of DU munitions in the Middle East, Central Asia

and Kosovo.

 

The role that such diverse groups and individuals -- as the

Carlyle Group, George H.W. Bush, former Carlyle CEO Frank

Carlucci, Los Alamos and Livermore labs, and U.S. and

international pension fund investments -- have played in

proliferating depleted uranium weapons is not well known.

God save the queen from her complicity in turning planet

Earth into a death star.

 

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Leuren Moret is an international expert on the environmental

effects of depleted uranium and has worked at two U.S. nuclear

weapons laboratories.

 

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