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Depleted Uranium:

The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War LEUREN MORET / World Affairs – The Journal of

International Issues 1jul04 [More by Leuren Moret]

 

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

The use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States, defying all

international treaties, will slowly annihilate all species on earth including

the human species, and yet this country continues to do so with full knowledge

of its destructive potential.

LEUREN MORET

Since 1991, the United States has staged four wars using depleted uranium

weaponry, illegal under all international treaties, conventions and agreements,

as well as under the US military law. The continued use of this illegal

radioactive weaponry, which has already contaminated vast regions with low level

radiation and will contaminate other parts of the world over time, is indeed a

world affair and an international issue. The deeper purpose is revealed by

comparing regions now contaminated with depleted uranium — from Egypt, the

Middle East, Central Asia and the northern half of India — to the US

geostrategic imperatives described in Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1997 book The Grand

Chessboard.

Fig. 1: Brzezinski’s map of the Eurasian Chessboard

 

SOUTH REGION: “This huge region, torn by volatile hatreds and surrounded by

competing powerful neighbors, is likely to be a major battlefield, both for wars

among nation-states and, more likely, for protracted ethnic and religious

violence. Whether India acts as a restraint or whether it takes advantage of

some opportunity to impose its will on Pakistan will greatly affect the regional

scope of the likely conflicts. The internal strains within Turkey and Iran are

likely not only to get worse but to greatly reduce the stabilizing role these

states are capable of playing within this volcanic region. Such developments

will in turn make it more difficult to assimilate the new Central Asian states

into the international community, while also adversely affecting the

American-dominated security of the Persian Gulf region. In any case, both

America and the international community may be faced here with a challenge that

will dwarf the recent crisis in the former

Yugoslavia.” Brzezinski

 

 

The fact is that the United States and its military partners have staged four

nuclear wars, " slipping nukes under the wire " by using dirty bombs and dirty

weapons in countries the US needs to control. Depleted uranium aerosols will

permanently contaminate vast regions and slowly destroy the genetic future of

populations living in those regions, where there are resources which the US must

control, in order to establish and maintain American primacy.

Described as the Trojan Horse of nuclear war, depleted uranium is the weapon

that keeps killing. The half-life of Uranium-238 is 4.5 billion years, the age

of the earth. And, as Uranium-238 decays into daughter radioactive products, in

four steps before turning into lead, it continues to release more radiation at

each step. There is no way to turn it off, and there is no way to clean it up.

It meets the US Government’s own definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

After forming microscopic and submicroscopic insoluble Uranium oxide particles

on the battlefield, they remain suspended in air and travel around the earth as

a radioactive component of atmospheric dust, contaminating the environment,

indiscriminately killing, maiming and causing disease in all living things where

rain, snow and moisture remove it from the atmosphere. Global radioactive

contamination from atmospheric testing was the equivalent of 40,000 Hiroshima

bombs, and still contaminates the atmosphere and lower orbital space today. The

amount of low level radioactive pollution from depleted uranium released since

1991, is many times more (deposited internally in the body), than was released

from atmospheric testing fallout.

A 2003 independent report for the European Parliament by the European

Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR), reports that based on Chernobyl studies, low

level radiation risk is 100 to 1000 times greater than the International

Committee for Radiation Protection models estimate which are based on the flawed

Atomic and Hydrogen Bomb Studies conducted by the US Government. Referring to

the extreme killing effects of radiation on biological systems, Dr. Rosalie

Bertell, one of the 46 international radiation expert authors of the ECRR

report, describes it as:

" The concept of species annihilation means a relatively swift,

deliberately induced end to history, culture, science, biological reproduction

and memory. It is the ultimate human rejection of the gift of life, an act which

requires a new word to describe it: omnicide. "

 

1943 MANHATTAN PROJECT BLUEPRINT FOR DEPLETED URANIUM

In a declassified memo to General Leslie R. Groves, dated October 30, 1943,

three of the top physicists in the Manhattan Project, Dr James B Conant, A H

Compton, and H C Urey, made their recommendation, as members of the Subcommittee

of the S-1 Executive Committee, on the ‘Use of Radioactive Materials as a

Military Weapon’:

" As a gas warfare instrument the material would be ground into particles of

microscopic size to form dust and smoke and distributed by a ground-fired

projectile, land vehicles, or aerial bombs. In this form it would be inhaled by

personnel. The amount necessary to cause death to a person inhaling the material

is extremely small … There are no known methods of treatment for such a casualty

… it will permeate a standard gas mask filter in quantities large enough to be

extremely damaging. "

As a Terrain Contaminant:

" To be used in this manner, the radioactive materials would be spread on the

ground either from the air or from the ground if in enemy controlled territory.

In order to deny terrain to either side except at the expense of exposing

personnel to harmful radiations … Areas so contaminated by radioactive material

would be dangerous until the slow natural decay of the material took place … for

average terrain no decontaminating methods are known. No effective protective

clothing for personnel seems possible of development. … Reservoirs or wells

would be contaminated or food poisoned with an effect similar to that resulting

from inhalation of dust or smoke. "

Internal Exposure:

" … Particles smaller than 1µ [micron] are more likely to be deposited in the

alveoli where they will either remain indefinitely or be absorbed into the

lymphatics or blood. … could get into the gastro-intestinal tract from polluted

water, or food, or air. … may be absorbed from the lungs or G-I tract into the

blood and so distributed throughout the body. "

Both the fission products and depleted uranium waste from the Atomic Bomb

Project were to be utilised under this plan. The pyrophoric nature of depleted

uranium, which causes it to begin to burn at very low temperatures from friction

in the gun barrel, made it an ideal radioactive gas weapon then and now. Also it

was more available because the amount of depleted uranium produced was much

greater than the amount of fission products produced in 1943.

Britain had thoughts of using poisoned gas on Iraq long before 1991:

" I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes.

The moral effect should be good... and it would spread a lively terror... "

(Winston Churchill commenting on the British use of poison gas against the

Iraqis after the First World War).

GUIDED WEAPONS SYSTEMS

Depleted uranium weapons were first given by the US to Israel for use under US

supervision in the 1973 Sinai war against the Arabs. Since then the US has

tested, manufactured, and sold depleted uranium weapons systems to 29 countries.

An international taboo prevented their use until 1991, when the US broke the

taboo and used them for the first time, on the battlefields of Iraq and Kuwait.

The US military admitted using depleted uranium projectiles in tanks and

planes, but warheads in missiles and bombs are classified or referred to as a

‘dense’ or ‘mystery metal’. Dai Williams, a researcher at the 2003 World

Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference, reported finding 11 US patents for guided

weapons systems with the term ‘depleted uranium’ or ‘dense metal’, which from

the density can only be depleted uranium or tungsten, in order to fit the

dimensions of the warhead.

 

Figure 2 - Hard target guided weapons in 2002: smart bombs & cruise missiles

with " dense metal " warheads (updated September 2002)

Warhead weight

 

Warhead weights include explosives (~20%) and casing. Dense metal ballast or

liners (suspected to be DU) estimated to be 50-75% of warhead weight - necessary

to double the density of previous versions. AUP = Advanced penetrators. S/CH =

Shaped Charge. BR = BROACH Multiple Warhead System (S/CH+AUP). P = older 'heavy

metal' penetrators. © Dai Williams 2002

source: Depleted Uranium weapons in 2001-2002: Occupational, public and

environmental health issues - Mystery Metal Nightmare in Afghanistan? Collected

studies and public domain sources compiled by Dai Williams, first edition 31

January 2002

 

Extensive carpet bombing, grid bombing, and the frequent use of missiles and

depleted uranium bullets on buildings in densely populated areas has occurred in

Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan. The discovery that bomb craters in Yugoslavia

in 1999 were radioactive, and that an unexploded missile in 1999 contained a

depleted uranium warhead, implies that the total amount of depleted uranium used

since 1991 has been greatly underestimated. Of even greater concern, is that 100

per cent of the depleted uranium in bombs and missiles is aerosolized upon

impact and immediately released into the atmosphere. This amount can be as much

as 1.5 tons in the large bombs. In bullets and cannon shells, the amount

aerosolized is 40-70 per cent, leaving pieces and unexploded shells in the

environment, to provide new sources of radioactive dust and contamination of the

groundwater from dissolved depleted uranium metal long after the battles are

over, as reported in a 2003 report by the UN

Environmental Program on Yugoslavia. Considering that the US has admitted using

34 tons of depleted uranium from bullets and cannon shells in Yugoslavia, and

the fact that 35,000 NATO bombing missions occurred there in 1999, potentially

the amount of depleted uranium contaminating Yugoslavia and transboundary drift

into surrounding countries is staggering.

Because of mysterious illnesses and post-war birth defects reported among Gulf

War veterans and civilians in southern Iraq, and radiation related illnesses in

UN Peacekeepers serving in Yugoslavia, growing concerns about radiation effects

and environmental damage has stirred up international outrage about the use of

radioactive weapons by the US after 1991. At the 2003 meeting of parties to the

Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, discussing the U.S. desire to maintain its

nuclear weapons stockpile, the Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi AKIBA stated,

" It is incumbent upon the rest of the world ... to stand up now and tell

all of our military leaders that we refuse to be threatened or protected by

nuclear weapons. We refuse to live in a world of continually recycled fear and

hatred " .

ILLEGAL UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW

Four reasons why using depleted uranium weapons violates the UN Convention on

Human Rights:

LEGALITY TEST FOR WEAPONS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW

TEMPORAL TEST – Weapons must not continue to act after the battle is over.

ENVIRONMENTAL TEST – Weapons must not be unduly harmful to the environment.

TERRITORIAL TEST – Weapons must not act off of the battlefield.

HUMANENESS TEST – Weapons must not kill or wound inhumanly.

 

International Human Rights and humanitarian lawyer, Karen Parker, determined

that depleted uranium weaponry fails the four tests for legal weapons under

international law, and that it is also illegal under the definition of a

‘poison’ weapon. Through Karen Parker’s continued efforts, a sub-commission of

the UN Human Rights Commission determined in 1996 that depleted uranium is a

weapon of mass destruction that should not be used:

RESOLUTION 1996/16 ON STOPPING THE USE OF DEPLETED URANIUM - DU

The military use of DU violates current international humanitarian law,

including the principle that there is no unlimited right to choose the means and

methods of warfare (Art. 22 Hague Convention VI (HCIV); Art. 35 of the

Additional Protocol to the Geneva (GP1); the ban on causing unnecessary

suffering and superfluous injury (Art. 23 §le HCIV; Art. 35 §2 GP1),

indiscriminate warfare (Art. 51 §4c and 5b GP1) as well as the use of poison or

poisoned weapons.

The deployment and use of DU violate the principles of international

environmental and human rights protection. They contradict the right to life

established by the Resolution 1996/16 of the UN Subcommittee on Human Rights.

 

FOUR NUCLEAR WARS

" Military Men Are Just Dumb,

Stupid, Animals To Be Used

As Pawns In Foreign Policy "

— Henry Kissinger

Although restricted to battlefields in Iraq and Kuwait, the 1991 Gulf War was

one of the most toxic and environmentally devastating wars in world history. Oil

well fires, the bombing of oil tankers and oil wells which released millions of

gallons of oil into the Gulf of Arabia and desert, and the devastation from

tanks and heavy equipment destroyed the desert ecosystem. The long term and far

reaching effects, and dispersal of at least 340 tons of depleted uranium

weapons, had a global environmental effect. Smoke from the oil fires was later

found in deposits in South America, the Himalayas and Hawaii. Large annual dust

storms originating in North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia will

quickly spread the radioactive contamination around the world, and weathering of

old depleted uranium munitions on battlefields and other areas will provide new

sources of radioactive contamination in future years. Downwind from the

radioactive devastation in Iraq, Israel is also

suffering from large increases in breast cancer, leukemia and childhood

diabetes.

 

RADIATION RESPECTS NO BORDERS, NO SOCIOECONOMIC CLASS, AND NO RELIGION

The expendability of the sanctity of life to achieve US political ends was

described by US soldiers on the ground, and from the air, along the Highway of

Death in Iraq in 1991:

" Iraqi soldiers [whether they] be young boys or old men. They were a sad

sight, with absolutely no fight left in them. Their leaders had cut their

Achilles’ tendons so they couldn’t run away and then left them. What weapons

they had were in bad repair and little ammunition was on hand. They were hungry,

cold, and scared. The hate I had for any Iraqi dissipated. These people had no

business being on a battlefield. "

(S Hersh, New Yorker, May 22, 2000)

American pilots bombing and strafing, with depleted uranium weapons, helpless

retreating Iraqi soldiers who had already surrendered, exclaimed:

" We toasted him…. we hit the jackpot….a turkey shoot….shooting fish in a

barrel….basically just sitting ducks… There’s just nothing like it. It’s the

biggest Fourth of July show you’ve ever seen, and to see those tanks just

‘boom’, and more stuff just keeps spewing out of them… they just become white

hot. It’s wonderful. "

(L A Times and Washington Post, both February 27, 1991)

Nearly 700,000 American Gulf War Veterans returned to the US from a war that

lasted just a few weeks. Today more than 240,000 of those soldiers are on

permanent medical disability, and over 11,000 are dead. In a US Government study

on post-Gulf War babies born to 251 veterans, 67 per cent of the babies were

reported to have serious illnesses or serious birth defects. They were born

without eyes, ears, had missing organs, fused fingers, thyroid or other

malfunctions. Depleted uranium in the semen of the soldiers internally

contaminated their wives. Severe birth defects have been reported in babies born

to contaminated civilians in Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan and the incidence

and severity of defects is increasing over time. Women in Yugoslavia,

Afghanistan and Iraq are afraid now to have babies, and when they do give birth,

instead of asking if it is a girl or a boy, they ask ‘is it normal?’.

KNOWN ILLNESSES INFLICTED BY INTERNALIZATION OF DEPLETED URANIUM PARTICLES

 

Table 1: Compiled by Leuren Moret from Interviews with Gulf War Vets and their

families

GENERAL

abnormal births and birth defects

abnormal metabolism of semen: contains

amine & ammonium alkaline

acute autoimmune symptoms

(lung-, liver-, kidney failure)

acute myeloid leukemia

(deadly within days or weeks)

acute immune depression

acute respiratory failure

asthma

auto-immune deficiencies

Balkan-syndrome

blood in stools and urine

body function control loss

bone cancer

brain damage

brain tumors

burning semen

burning sensations

calcium loss in body

cardiovascular signs or symptoms

chemical sensitivities

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

chronic kidney and liver disorders

chronic myeloid leukemia

chronic respiratory infections

colon cancer

confusion

diarrhea

digestive problems

dizziness

Epstein Barr Syndrome

fluid buildup

fibromyalgia

gastrointestinal signs/symptoms

general fatigue

genetic alterations

glandular carcinoma

Gulf war-syndrome

headaches (severe)

heart attack/disease

high blood pressure

high frequency of micturition

Hodgkin lymphoma

immune system deficiency

infections

insomnia

involuntary movements

joint/muscle/leg pain

kidney failure/damage

leukemia

liver carcinoma

loss of feeling in fingers

Lou Gehrigs Disease -ALS

low blood oxygen saturation

( low HbO2)

low lung volume

lung damage

lung cancer

lymph cancer

lymphoma

melanoma

memory loss

metallic taste

Microplasma fermentans/

incognitis infections

mood swings – violence

homicide/suicide

multiple cancers

multiple myeloma

myeloma

muscle pain

nerve damage

neuro-muscular degenerative

disease

non-Hodgkin lymphoma

other malignancies

pancreas carcinoma

Parkinsons disease

petit & grand mal fits

rashes

reactive airway disease

reduced IQ

respiratory ailments

shortness of breath

sinus diseases

skin cancer

skin damage: sweat glands

with trapped du-particles

skin infections

skin spotting

smell, loss of

sleep disturbances

stiffening of fingers

teeth crumbling

thyroid cancer

thyroid disease

unable to walk

unusual fevers/night sweats

unusual hair loss

vision problems

weight loss

CHILDREN

 

alimentary disorders

asthma

bladder & sphincter paralysis

blindness

complete range of known and

unknown Congenital Defects

deafness

dyspraxia

headache

kidney disease

leukemia

lymphoma

malformations of legs, arms,

toes & fingers

respiratory disorders

stillbirth

neural tube defects

FEMALE

 

abdominal pain

breast cancer

breast cancer at very young

age (20)

cervix cancer

endometriosis

headaches

incontinence

joint pain

lung cancer at age 20 and

non-smoker

menstrual problems

miscarriages

nausea

ovarian cancer

paralysis of digestive system

thyroid problems

uterine cancer

MALE

 

(acute) headache

acute myeloid leukemia

arthritis

avoiding people

breathing problems

(stridor)

chemical sensitivity

chronic myeloid leukemia

endometriosis in partners

gastrointestinal disorder

hip and leg pain

joint pain

lung cancer at young age

lymphoma

skin cancer

skin eruptions

stomach pain

suicide

testicular cancer

unable to walk

 

VISIE: http://www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/VISIE/du-diagnosis.html

DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM website:

http://www.ushostnet.com/gulfwar/articles.htm 04/1504

 

Soldiers who served in Bradley fighting vehicles, where it was common to sit

on ammunition boxes where depleted uranium ammunition was stored, are now

reporting that many have rectal cancer.

For the first time, medical doctors in Yugoslavia and Iraq have reported

multiple in situ unrelated cancers developing in patients, and even in families

who are living in highly contaminated areas. Even stranger, they report that

cancer was unknown in previous generations. Very rare and unusual cancers and

birth defects have also been reported to be increasing above normal levels prior

to 1991, not only in war torn countries, but in neighbouring countries from

transboundary contamination.

Dr. Keith Baverstock, a senior radiation advisor who was on the staff of the

World Health Organization, co-authored a report in November 2001, warning that

the long-term health effects of depleted uranium would endanger Iraq’s civilian

population, and that the dry climate would increase exposure from the tiny

particles blowing around and be inhaled for years to come. The WHO refused to

give him permission to publish the study, bowing to pressure from the IAEA. Dr.

Baverstock released the damning report to the media in February 2004. Pekka

Haavisto, Chairman of the UN Environment Program’s Post-Conflict Assessment Unit

in Geneva, shares Baverstock’s anxiety about depleted uranium but UNEP experts

have not been allowed into Iraq to assess the pollution.

" DEPLETED URANIUM SCARE " - Claimed by President George W. Bush on the official

White House website:

" During the Gulf War, coalition forces used armor-piercing ammunition made

from depleted uranium, which is ideal for the purpose because of its great

density. In recent years, the Iraqi regime has made substantial efforts to

promote the false claim that the depleted uranium rounds fired by coalition

forces have caused cancers and birth defects in Iraq. Iraq has distributed

horrifying pictures of children with birth defects and linked them to depleted

uranium. The campaign has two major propaganda assets: "

" Uranium is a name that has frightening associations in the mind of the

average person, which makes the lie relatively easy to sell; and Iraq could take

advantage of an established international network of antinuclear activists who

had already launched their own campaign against depleted uranium. "

" But scientists working for the World Health Organization, the UN

Environmental Programme, and the European Union could find no health effects

linked to exposure to depleted uranium. "

The US war in Afghanistan made it clear that this was not a war IN the third

world, but a war AGAINST the third world. In Afghanistan where 800 to 1000 tons

of depleted uranium was estimated to have been used in 2001, even uneducated

Afghanis understand the impact these weapons have had on their children and on

future generations:

" After the Americans destroyed our village and killed many of us, we also

lost our houses and have nothing to eat. However, we would have endured these

miseries and even accepted them, if the Americans had not sentenced us all to

death. When I saw my deformed grandson, I realized that my hopes of the future

have vanished for good, different from the hopelessness of the Russian

barbarism, even though at that time I lost my older son Shafiqullah. This time,

however, I know we are part of the invisible genocide brought on us by America,

a silent death from which I know we will not escape. "

(Jooma Khan of Laghman province, March 2003)

In 1990, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) wrote a report

warning about the potential health and environmental catastrophe from the use of

depleted uranium weapons. The health effects had been known for a long time. The

report sent to the UK government warned " in their estimation, if 50 tonnes of

residual DU dust remained ‘in the region’ there could be half a million extra

cancers by the end of the century [2000]. " Estimates of depleted uranium weapons

used in 1991, now range from the Pentagon’s admitted 325 tons, to other

scientific bodies who put the figure as high as 900 tons. That would make the

number of estimated cancers as high as 9,000,000, depending on the amount used

in the 1991 Gulf War. In the 2003 Gulf War, estimates of 2200 tons have been

given — causing about 22,000,000 new cancer cases. Altogether the total number

of cancer patients estimated using the UKAEA data would be 25,250,000. In July

of 1998, the CIA estimated the population of

Iraq to be approximately 24,683,313.

Ironically, the UN Resolution 661 calling for sanctions against Iraq, was

signed on Hiroshima Day, August 6, 1990.

 

THE PARALLELS

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an

increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

– Ludwig von Mises

The parallels between Iraq, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan are startlingly

similar. The weapons used, the unfair treaties offered by the US, and the

bombing and destruction of the environment and entire infrastructure. In every

city of Iraq and Yugoslavia, the television and radio stations were bombed.

Educational centres were targeted, and stores where educational materials were

sold were destroyed on nearly the same day. Under UN sanctions, Iraq was not

even allowed pencils for schoolchildren. Cultural antiquities and historical

treasures were targeted and destroyed in all three countries, a kind of cultural

and historical cleansing, a collective national psychic trauma.

The permanent radioactive contamination and environmental devastation of all

three countries is unprecedented, resulting in huge increases in cancer and

birth defects following the attacks. These will increase over time from unknown

effects due to chronic exposure, increasing internal levels of radiation from

depleted uranium dust, and permanent genetic effects passed on to future

generations. Clearly, this has been a genocidal plan from the start.

 

Fig. 3: Map of regions within a 1000 mile radius of Baghdad and Afghanistan

which have been contaminated with depleted uranium since 1991. Depleted uranium

dust will be repeatedly recycled throughout this dry region, and also carried

around the world. More than ten times the amount of radiation, released during

atmospheric testing, has been released from depleted uranium weaponry since

1991. In 2002 the US government admitted that every person living in the US

between 1957 and 1963 was internally contaminated with radiation. Note that the

contaminated region corresponds with the " South " region on the Eurasian

chessboard in Fig. 1.

 

 

What has happened to Human Rights, to the Rights of the Child, to civil

society, and to common humanity?

It is up to the citizens of the world to stop the depleted uranium wars, and

future nuclear wars, causing irreversible devastation. There are just a few

generations left before the collapse of our environment, and then it will be too

late. We can be no healthier than the health of the environment — we breathe the

same air, drink the same water, eat food from the same soil.

" Our collective gene pool of life, evolving for hundreds of millions of

years has been seriously damaged in less than the past fifty. The time remaining

to reverse this culture of ‘lemming death’ is on the wane. In the future, what

will you tell our grandchildren about what you did in the prime of your life to

turn around this death process? " (Rosalie Bertell, 1982)

 

THE DEEPER PURPOSE: G*O*D* [Gold, Oil, and Drugs]

" We must become the owners, or at any rate the controllers at the source,

of at least a proportion of the oil which we require. "

(British Royal Commission, agreeing with Winston Churchill's policy towards Iraq

1913).

" It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our

imports come from overseas. "

(US President George W. Bush, Beaverton, Oregon, Sep. 25, 2000).

" If they turn on the radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs

(surface-to-air missiles). They know we own their country. We own their

airspace... We dictate the way they live and talk. And that's what's great about

America right now. It's a good thing, especially when there's a lot of oil out

there we need. "

 

(US Brig. General William Looney in 1999, referring to Iraq).

Millions of years ago, before India crashed into the Eurasian continent and

uplifted the Himalayas, the ancient shallow Tethys sea stretched from the

Atlantic across what is now the Mediterranean, Black, Caspian and Aral seas.

Rich oil deposits are now located where ancient life accumulated and ‘cooked’

under just the right conditions to form large oil deposits in the ancient

sediments. Long before 1991, Unocal in Afghanistan, Amoco in Yugoslavia, and

various oil companies interested in Iraq oil deposits, had conducted extensive

exploration and characterisation of oil deposits in the Middle East and Central

Asian regions, including the northern half of India.

Britain has maintained an interest in Middle Eastern oil deposits for a

century, and has been the staunchest military partner of the US since the first

depleted uranium war in 1991 in Iraq. Germany, another military partner in

Yugoslavia with forces now in Afghanistan, was one of the major economic

beneficiaries of the breakup of Yugoslavia and the colonisation of the Balkans.

US interest in Yugoslavia had much to do with building pipelines from Central

Asia to the Mediterranean warm water ports in Yugoslavia. A silent and hidden

partnership between the US and Japan provided large amounts of cash from Japan

to finance the 1991 Iraq and 1995/1999 Yugoslavian wars, with additional help in

Afghanistan by providing not only cash, but fuel for the war, from Aegis

warships of the Japanese Self Defense Forces in the Indian Ocean. Nippon Steel,

Mitsubishi, and Halliburton are now partners in a Central Asian oil pipeline

project. In 2004, despite much citizen opposition in Japan,

the Japanese government has sent Self Defense Forces to Iraq for

‘reconstruction’. This action taken by the Japanese government, of placing

troops on the ground in a war zone, will lead to rescinding Article 9 of the

Japanese Constitution, which forever prohibits military aggression by Japan.

 

THE IRON TRIANGLE (all under one roof): MILITARY, BIG BUSINESS, POLITICS

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth

of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic

State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism -- ownership of government by an

individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

But what do oil, military partners, depleted uranium wars, and US foreign

policy have to do with nuclear weapons? The answer came to me in 1991 when I

became a whistleblower at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory near San

Francisco, California. Richard Berta, the Western Regional Inspector for the

Department of Energy, told me " The Pentagon exists for the oil companies… and

the nuclear weapons labs exist for the Pentagon. "

Depleted uranium was used beginning in 1991 for three reasons:

 

To test the radiobiological effects of 4th generation nuclear weapons, which

are still under development

To blur and break down the distinction between conventional and nuclear

weapons

To make it easier to reintroduce nuclear weapons into the US military arsenal

Today, the US is number one in 4th generation nuclear weapons research and

development, followed by Japan and Germany tied for number two, and Russia and

other countries follow.

 

Figure 4: Depleted uranium and 4th generation nuclear weapons

 

Map by Mika TSUTSUMI 12/12/03

 

The Carlyle Group, a private massive equity firm, the 12th largest defense

business with an obscenely high profit margin, is a business " arrangement "

between the Bush and Bin Laden families, wealthy Saudis, former British Prime

Minister John Major, James Baker III, Afsaneh Masheyekhi, Frank Carlucci, Colin

Powell, other former US Government administrators, and Madeleine Albright’s

daughter. The Carlyle Group is the ‘gatekeeper’ to the Saudi investment

community. It owns 70 percent of Lockheed Martin Marietta, the largest military

contractor in the US, and because Carlyle is privately owned, has no scrutiny or

accountability whatsoever. A journalist who calls himself ‘a skunk at the garden

party’ described investigating the Carlyle Group, he said ‘it’s like shadow

boxing with a ghost’. The Group hires as lobbyists the best known politicians

from around the world, in order to influence the politics of war, and privately

profit from their previous public policies. The

conflict of interest is obvious: President George W. Bush is creating wars as

his father, former President George Bush, is globally peddling weapons and

" protection " . Lockheed Martin Marietta now owns Sandia Laboratories, a private

contractor that makes the trigger for nuclear weapons, with a Sandia laboratory

facility across the street from Los Alamos and Livermore National Laboratories,

where the nuclear bombs are made.

At the May 2003 University of California Regents meeting which I attended,

Admiral Linton Brooks was present and newly in charge of the nuclear weapons

programme under the Department of Energy. Admiral Brooks informed California Lt.

Governor Cruz Bustamante and the UC Regents that the management contract for the

nuclear weapons laboratories, held unchallenged by the University of California

for over 60 years, will be put up for competitive bid in 2005. The favoured

institution, with a faculty member on the ‘blue ribbon committee’ making the

contract award, is the University of Texas. This privatisation and management

contract transfer of the US nuclear weapons programme will put control of the US

nuclear weapons programme close to the Carlyle Group. The incestuous

relationship between the US government, private companies, and the Bush and Bin

Laden families in a way answers many of the lingering questions in everyone’s

minds about many of the ill fated decisions and

policies that have been implemented.

 

But who is Osama bin Laden really?

Let me rephrase that. What is Osama bin Laden?

 

He’s America’s family secret. He is the American President’s dark

doppelganger. The savage twin of all that purports to be beautiful and

civilised. He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by

America’s foreign policy; its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear arsenal, its

vulgarly stated policy of " full spectrum dominance, " its chilling disregard for

non-American lives, its barbarous military interventions, its support for

despotic and dictatorial regimes, its merciless economic agenda that has munched

through the economies of poor countries like a cloud of locusts. Its marauding

multinationals who are taking over the air we breathe, the ground we stand on,

the water we drink, the thoughts we think.

 

Arundhati Roy

The Algebra of Infinite Justice

 

 

Leuren Moret has worked at two US nuclear weapons laboratories as a

geoscientist. In 1991 she became a whistleblower at the Livermore nuclear

weapons lab, and since then has worked as an independent citizen scientist and

radiation specialist in communities around the world, and contributed to the UN

subcommission investigating depleted uranium. Her research on the environmental

and public health effects of low level radiation from atmospheric testing

fallout, nuclear power plants, and depleted uranium weaponry, is available on

the internet and at http://www.mindfully.org. In 2003, she testified at the

International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan held in Japan, and presented at

the World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference in Hamburg, Germany, and at the

World Court of Women at the World Social Forum in Bombay, India in January 2004.

She is a Contributing Editor to GLOBAL OUTLOOK, a City of Berkeley Environmental

Commissioner, and the Past President of the Association

for Women Geoscientists.

More on Mindfully.org by Leuren Moret

 

Websites:

 

International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan written opinion of Judge N.

Bhagwat: also at http://www.traprockpeace.org/tokyo_trial_13march04.doc

 

Question 11: What does the US Government know about depleted uranium:

http://traprockpeace.org/moret_25nov03.pdf

 

World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference:

http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de

 

Radiation and Public Health Project: http://www.radiation.org

 

" A comparison of delayed radiobiological effects of depleted-uranium

munitions versus fourth-generation nuclear weapons " by A. Gsponer, J.-P. Hurni,

and B. Vitale, 4th International Conference of the Yugoslav Nuclear Society,

Belgrade, September 30-October 4, 2002. http://arXiv.org/abs/physics/0210071

 

" Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons: The Physical Principles Of

Thermonuclear Explosives, Inertial Confinement Fusion, And The Quest For Fourth

Generation Nuclear Weapons " by Andre Gsponer and Jean-Pierre Hurni

http://www.inesap.org/publ_tech01.htm

 

54 minute VPRO Dutch TV " Carlyle Group " documentary on internet:

http://www.vpro.nl/info/tegenlicht/index.shtml?7738514+7738518+7738520+11838857

Real Player Video Documentary on the Carlyle Group, by VPRO Dutch

television [500 kbps real video]

 

Real Player Video Documentary on the Carlyle Group, by VPRO Dutch

television [100 kbps real video]

 

Overview of documentary - Interactive Flash Animation - with links to

biographies and articles (Dutch) and specific sections of video.

 

English translation of Dutch introduction Translation of the first one

minute forty seven seconds of this program.

The war in Iraq is over.

 

The rubble is still smoking While the first dozers are already entering the

country.

After the coalition forces destroyed Baghdad it is now primarily American

companies who are to rebuild Iraq.

 

An interesting point is that these companies usually have people on the payroll

who have been politicians. Is this a conflict of interests or a new (global) way

of doing business?

 

One of the corporations that work this way is the Carlyle Group. On their

payroll are people like : George Bush (Sr.), James Baker III and old premier

John Major.

 

The Carlyle Group is a private investment bank which doesn't come to the publics

attention very often but it is one of the biggest American (ed: USA) investors

of the defense industry, telecom, property and financial services.

 

What is the Carlyle Group? Who are the people behind the name? And how much

power does Carlyle have?

 

 

Global Outlook: http://www.globalresearch.de

 

An interesting response. . .

 

-

" Leuren Moret " <leurenmoret

< [uS Army Col Special Ops Green Beret] >

Wednesday, June 16, 2004 12:56 AM

Re: Treachery And Treason

 

Hi John - Here is an article coming out in July in World Affairs Journal. Can

you please tell me what you think and whose decision it could have been to use

DU on the Arab world? It looks to me like it was in the 1970s.

 

Leuren

 

-------- Response ---------

 

< [uS Army Col Special Ops Green Beret] >

" Leuren Moret " <leurenmoret

Re: Treachery And Treason

Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:10:01 -0700

 

Hi Leuren,

 

Your report is very comprehensive and compelling.

 

It begs the question WHO and WHY re the responsibility for the decision to

create an area of deniability that covers the Arab world.

 

It seems credible that the decision to isolate the Arab occupied areas of the

world was and is intentional for the express purpose of controlling the flow of

oil from Russia, through the mid-east countries of Afghanistan and Iraq (with

eventual expansion to Syria and Iran and North Africa, and Saudi Arabia) while

simultaneously destroying the current population to preclude resistance.

 

Deaths in the contested area as a direct result of DU is, in my opinion, the

covert means by which CONTROL over these lands will be accomplished.

 

Systems must be in development to eventually provide automated CONTROL of the

oil production mechanisms with minimum human exposure for maintenance. High

altitude observation will CONTROL the threat of sabotage in ways perfected to

secure Area 51 in Nevada.

 

Whose Idea was this scenario? Henry Kissinger's fingerprints are all over this

project. The Carlyle Group is in perfect position to carry out Henry's design.

 

Take for example the exposure of Kissinger's genocidal action by configuring

over 3000 secret B-52 strikes (using multiple aircraft) on Cambodia (1969-72) as

written in the book " Side Show " . B-52's would take off from Guam with assigned

targets in North and South Vietnam only to receive in-flight changes of the

coordinates to targets in Cambodia. Only the Command Pilot and the Navigator

were aware of the changes, by design, to keep the bombing of Cambodia

compartmentalized from other crew members to minimize compromising the illegal

acts of war on a neutral country. This dovetails with the covert DU attack on

the Arab World. It also provides the reason the US. Air Force ran out of 750

bombs during the Vietnam War. This also provides insight as to the diversion of

the war on terrorism which began in Afghanistan only to be shifted, without

justification, to Iraq, thereby cutting off the available resources to go after

bin Laden and al Qaeda strongholds in Afghanistan. It is

now apparent that the United States only wanted the appearance of going after

bin Laden since he is an integral part of the Carlyle Group. These are the

" sources and methods " which must be kept compartmented from the clueless.

 

Henry's other quote re military is; " they are mindless cattle " . But, then again,

the military leadership excepts it's existence as " expendable assets " .

 

He would have made a wonderful Nazi. Right up there with Goebbels, Eichmann,

Erlichman, Haldeman, und Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz.

 

We have definitely become the Aggressor Nation. I fear we will pay dearly for

the criminal greed of those responsible.

 

I will wait until your material is published before passing it on to interested

parties.

 

Strangely enough, the Trojan Horse inside a shield was the Green Beret emblem of

the 10th Special Forces Group in Germany in the fifties and sixties....that was

my first exposure to diabolical thinking and the " sources and methods " of the

Agency.

 

Best,

John

 

 

 

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take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under

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