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Depleted Uranium: A Scientific Perspective

 

 

 

 

An Interview With LEUREN MORET, Geoscientist Interview Conducted By W. Leon

Smith and Nathan Diebenow Leuren Moret is a geoscientist who works almost

around the clock educating citizens, the media, members of parliaments and

Congress and other officials on radiation issues. She became a whistleblower in

1991 at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab after witnessing fraud on the Yucca

Mountain Project. She is currently working as an independent citizen scientist

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

U.N. subcommission investigating depleted uranium. According to Wikipedia online

encyclopedia, Moret testified at the International Criminal Tribunal for

Afghanistan in Japan in 2003, presented at the World Depleted Uranium Weapons

Conference in Hamburg, Germany, and spoke at the World Court of Women at the

World Social Forum in Bombay, India, in January 2004. THE INTERVIEW

ICONOCLAST: What are the latest developments with

reducing depleted uranium exposures on U.S. troops? MORET: A young veteran

named Melissa Sterry of Connecticut has introduced a bill into the Connecticut

Legislature requiring independent testing of returning Afghan and Gulf War

veterans going back to 2001. She said that she did it because she’s sick, and

her friends are dead, and that’s from serving in the 2003 conflict. I have been

following the bill and talking to her. Yesterday, she testified twice at the

United Nations. I said, " Why don’t we get this bill all over the U.S. in state

legislatures because it informs the public and get the local media to cover it. "

The U.S. has blocked any accountability at international and national levels.

There’s a total cover-up just like with Agent Orange, the atomic veterans,

MKULTRA, the mind control experiments the CIA did. This is more of the same, but

the issue is much, much worse because the genetic future of all those

contaminated is effected. Now vast regions around our

world, as well as our atmosphere, are contaminated with the depleted uranium.

They’ve used so much. It’s the equivalent number of atoms, as the Japanese

professor calculated it, to over 400,000 Nagasaki bombs that has been released

into the atmosphere. That’s really an underestimate. I went to Louisiana in

April. I was invited to speak at the University of New Orleans for three days.

One of the veterans asked me to be in their April 19 protest and rally through

the City of New Orleans. He took the Connecticut bill straight to the

Legislature, and he got two legislators to sponsor it, and he said, " Just

whiteout the name ‘Connecticut’ and write in ‘Louisiana’ on the bill. " You’re

not going to believe it. It passed 101 to 0 yesterday in the Louisiana House.

I want you to write about it because we want it (the DU testing bill) in Texas.

Nevada is going to introduce it. Congressman Jim McDermott is going to put it

into the Washington legislature. We want to get the

governor of Montana to do it because he’s the first governor to demand his

National Guard be returned. I think half of them are back. He said, " I need them

in the state. " The DU issue is just really, really, really, really so awful. I

don’t think there’s any greater tragedy in the history of the world in what

they’ve done. ICONOCLAST: Is there a danger of depleted uranium, being used

in weaponry over there, spreading by air over here? MORET: The atmosphere

globally is contaminated with it. It’s completely mixed in one year. I’m an

expert on atmospheric dust. I’m a geoscientist, a geologist, and that’s what I

studied and did my research on. It’s really a fascinating subject. We have huge

dust storms that are a million square miles and transport millions of tons of

dust and sand every year around the world. The main centers of these dust storms

are the Gobi Desert in China, which is where the Chinese did atmospheric

testing, so that’s all contaminated with radiation,

and it gets transported right over Japan, and it comes straight across the

Pacific and dumps all its sand and dust on the U.S., North America. It’s loaded

with radioactive isotopes, soot, pesticides, chemicals, pollution -- everything

is in it -- fungi, bacteria, viruses. The Sahara Desert is another huge dust

center, and it goes up all over Europe and straight across the Atlantic, to the

Caribbean, and up the East Coast. Of course, you get it in Texas with those

hurricanes. They all originate in the Sahara Desert. The third region is the

Western United States, which is where the Nevada test site is located. We did

1,200 nuclear weapons tests there, so all this radiation that is already there,

which is bad enough, has caused a global cancer epidemic since 1945. All of that

radiation was the equivalent of 40,000 Nagasaki bombs. We’re talking about 10

times more. In April of 2003, the World Health Organization said they expect

global cancer rates to increase 50

percent by the year 2020. Infant mortality is going up again all over the

world. This is an indicator of the level of radioactive pollution. When the

U.S. and Russia signed the partial test ban treaty in 1963, the infant mortality

rate started dropping again, which is normal. Now they are going up again. It’s

the global pollution with this radiation. ICONOCLAST: I had one of our

correspondents send me a series of photographs of the Al-Asad dust storm in Iraq

on April 28. MORET: That dust is what I’m talking about. ICONOCLAST: In

the picture you can see a gigantic wall of sand. MORET: I have 16 pictures of

that storm. They’re posted with photos from Iraqi doctors of the children of

people with cancer and leukemia. So what did you think of that dust storm?

ICONOCLAST: I thought it was really dramatic. MORET: It remobilizes all the

radiation, but those are the larger chunks. The DU burns at such high

temperatures. It’s a pyroforic metal which means it

burns. The bullets and big caliber shells are actually on fire when they come

out of the gun barrel because they are ignited by the friction in the gun

barrel. Seventy percent of the DU metal becomes a metal vapor. It’s actually a

radioactive gas weapon and a terrain contaminant. I’ll email you the URL of

the 1943 memo to General Leslie Grove under the Manhattan Project. It’s the

blueprint for depleted uranium. They dropped the atomic bombs, but they did not

use the DU weapons because they thought they were too horrific. I’ve toured

and gone all over Japan with a pediatrician in Basra and an oncologist, a cancer

specialist. These poor doctors -- their whole families are dying of cancer. He

has 10 members of his family with cancer now that he’s treating, and this is

just from Gulf War I. They’ve used much, much, much more in 2003. All over the

whole country. ICONOCLAST: What can soldiers expect when they come home?

MORET: If they were in Bradley Fighting

Vehicles, they’re coming home with rectal cancer from sitting on ammunition

boxes. The young women are reporting terrible problems with endometriosis.

That’s the lining of the uterus malfunctioning, and they just bleed and bleed

and bleed. Some of them have uterine cancer -- 18 and 19 and 20 year olds. The

Army will not even diagnose it. They send them back to the battlefields. They

won’t treat them or diagnose them. A group of 20 soldiers pushed from Kuwait to

Baghdad in 2003 in all the fighting. Eight of those 20 soldiers have

malignancies. ICONOCLAST: Does exposure to depleted uranium effect their

psychological background when they come home?

More- http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=6232

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http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/weapons_poison_europe.html

 

 

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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