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THE REAL WMD'S IN IRAQ - OURS

 

by Douglas Westerman

 

www.uruknet.info?p=22658

 

April 17, 2006

 

Weapons of mass destruction are all over Iraq. Iraqi children are

playing among them every day. According to Iraqi doctors, many are

developing cancer as a result. The WMD in question is depleted uranium

(DU). Left over after natural uranium has been processed, DU is 1.7

times denser than lead - effective in penetrating armored vehicles such

as tanks. After a DU shell strikes, it penetrates before exploding into

a burning vapor that turns to dust.

 

" Depleted uranium has a half life of 4.7 billion years - that means

thousands upon thousands of Iraqi children will suffer for tens of

thousands of years to come. This is what I call terrorism, " says Dr

Ahmad Hardan.

 

As a special scientific adviser to the World Health Organization, the

United Nations and the Iraqi Ministry of Health, Dr Hardan is the man

who documented the effects of depleted uranium in Iraq between 1991 and

2002. U.S. forces admit to using at least 300 tons of D.U. ordinance in

Gulf War I, with up to six times that amount in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

 

When a loved one is diagnosed with cancer, it can dramatically alter the

entire fabric of family life. The emotional impact can be huge. Imagine

having nine members of your family with malignancies at the same time.

Welcome to Basra, Iraq.

 

Dr. Jawad Al-Ali, educated in England, is head oncologist at the Saddam

teaching hospital in Basra. There are nine people with cancer in his

wife's family. They are not alone. At a conference in Japan in 2004 he

stated:

 

" Two strange phenomena have come about in Basra which I have never

seen before. The first is double and triple cancers in one patient. For

example, leukemia and cancer of the stomach. We had one patient with 2

cancers - one in his stomach and kidney. Months later, primary cancer

was developing in his other kidney--he had three different cancer types.

The second is the clustering of cancer in families. We have 58 families

here with more than one person affected by cancer. Dr Yasin, a general

Surgeon here has two uncles, a sister and cousin affected with cancer.

Dr Mazen, another specialist, has six family members suffering from

cancer. My wife has nine members of her family with cancer " .

 

" Children in particular are susceptible to depleted uranium( DU)

poisoning. They have a much higher absorption rate as their blood is

being used to build and nourish their bones and they have a lot of soft

tissues. Bone cancer and leukemia used to be diseases affecting them the

most, however, cancer of the lymph system, which can develop anywhere on

the body, and has rarely been seen before the age of 12 is now also common. "

 

At one point after the war, a Basra hospital reported treating upwards

of 600 children per day with symptoms of radiation sickness. 600

children per day?

 

The widespread use of DU weapons was not limited to Iraq. The Uranium

Medical Research Center (UMRC), founded by Dr. Asaf Durakovic, a former

U.S. Army Colonel, did extensive field studies in Afghanistan just after

the invasion. Excerpts from their field reports read:

 

" We took both soil and biological samples, and found considerable

presence in urine samples of radioactivity; the heavy concentration

astonished us. They were beyond our wildest imagination. " ....... " The

UMRC field team was shocked by the breadth of public health impacts

coincident with the bombing. Without exception, at every bombsite

investigated, people are ill. A significant portion of the civilian

population presents symptoms consistent with internal contamination by

uranium. "

 

In Afghanistan, unlike Iraq, UMRC lab results indicated high

concentrations of NON-DEPLETED URANIUM, with the concentrations being

much higher than in DU victims from Iraq. Afghanistan was evidently used

as a testing ground for a new generation of " bunker buster " bombs

containing high concentrations of other uranium alloys.

 

Dr. Durakovic stated, " The [u.S.] Veteran's Administration asked me to

lie about the risks of incorporating depleted uranium in the human body

....uranium does cause cancer, uranium does cause mutation, and uranium

does kill. If we continue with the irresponsible contamination of the

biosphere, the denial of the fact that human life is endangered by the

deadly uranium isotope, then we are doing disservice to ourselves,

disservice to the truth, disservice to God and to all the generations

who follow. "

 

Living in Iraq under Saddam Hussein was pretty bad much of the time, and

being ruled by the Taliban in Afghanistan was no picnic either, but DU

is worse. It's not safe even to breathe. It's the ultimate tyranny.

 

NOTE: Mr. Westerman blogs at: vitaltruths.blogsource.com, which contains

a much longer and more comprehensive report on the horrors of Depleted

Uranium. He can be reached via e-mail at: aspendougy

<aspendougy

<http://drrant.blogspot.com/> / /

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