U.S. Importing 6,700 Tons of Radioactive Sand From Kuwait

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U.S. Importing 6,700 Tons of Radioactive Sand From Kuwait

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_U.S. Importing 6,700 Tons of Radioactive Sand From Kuwait_

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--Sand contaminated with DU and lead from U.S. Army base in Kuwait to be

shipped to Idaho 28 Apr 2008 Longshoremen should finish unloading 6,700 tons of

sand contaminated with depleted uranium and lead Tuesday afternoon, said Chad

Hyslop, spokesman for the disposal company American Ecology. The BBC Alabama

arrived at the Port of Longview (WA) Saturday afternoon with the 306

containers carrying the contaminated sand from Camp Doha, a U.S. Army base in

Kuwait. Half of the containers will be loaded onto 76 rail cars and transported

to

the company's disposal site in Idaho. The other half will remain at the port

until the trains return to haul them to Idaho. State Department of Health

personnel are at the port to test radiation levels and to ensure none of the

sand spills [!], Hyslop said.

 

 

_Kuwaiti sand bound for Longview has high levels of lead; extended stay

likely_

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24 Apr 2008 The U.S. Army has found a potentially hazardous amount of

lead in Kuwaiti sand already bound for the Port of Longview (WA) , the

company disposing the material said Thursday. The discovery could mean the BBC

Alabama, which is hauling the 6,700 tons of [_radioactive_ (htt

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sand from a U.S.

Army base in Kuwait, now must likely wait in port a month under U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency notification regulations, said Chad Hyslop,

project

manager for the Idaho-based American Ecology.

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It is contamination that the US government put there.

 

Ever hear the old saying.... what goes around comes around?

 

Or, as ye nuke, so shall ye be nuked.

 

It's only fair after all. It's our DU and Kuwait just wants us to take it

back and store it

in the land of its rightful owner - the US.

 

Too bad, however, that Congress - who approves the funding for the

radioactive stuff - does not convene near the Idaho sand pit where storage will

take

place. They seem to think it's a nifty idea to use the stuff, so you'd think

they'd be positively glowing to be in its midst! Instead, sadly, the

Congressional vermin are on the other side of the country, dreaming of how to

fund

more wars as we speak... and the Uranium will, over time, leach down into the

Idaho water table and instead eventually harm potato farmers and their families

one day.

 

Like I keep saying, they're never going to stop using the stuff until the

day enough Americans realize that we, too, are being nuked, right here at home!

 

Here is the military stating that the DU fire inside Kuwait at Camp Doha did

not cause many problems. Ummm I wonder how the people of Kuwait were

breathing that week...

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(http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/camp_doha_summary18may00.pdf)

 

In 1999, U.S. A-10 Warthog aircraft fired about 31,000 uranium-tipped

rounds in about 100 missions in 20 separate locations in Kosovo. A further

11,000

shells were fired in Bosnia in 1995, and almost a million were fired in

Iraq and Kuwait during the Gulf War in 1991.

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Unfortunately, the Desert Storm veterans were victims of one of the latest

military experiments on human beings. The people of Iraq and Kuwait were also

the victims of this misguided experiment. I believe that the ignorance was

culpable and criminal.

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4. The US began producing DU ammunition in 1978; the munitions were first

used during the Gulf War. 940,000 DU shells were fired from U.S. planes and

14,000 DU shells were fired from tanks. 300-800 tons of DU particles and dust

were scattered over ground and water in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. The

majority of the DU rounds fired in the Gulf were from the Fairchild A-10

' " tank-killer " aircraft. About 564,000 pounds of DU were fired from A-10 planes

during the Gulf War.

 

 

5. DU weapons are toxic, radioactive weapons which cannot be contained in

time or space, and are indiscriminate weapons which violate international law.

 

 

6. In the US Army base in Doha, Kuwait, an ammunition vehicle caught fire on

July 11, 1991. An estimated 9,000 pounds of DU were burned. During the Gulf

War, 29 US vehicles were contaminated with DU through friendly fire

incidents. Soldiers inside the vehicles were wounded; soldiers assigned to

recover the

vehicles were contaminated. Thousands of Iraqi vehicles were contaminated by

DU. American soldiers entered these vehicles to salvage equipment, look for

souvenirs or pose for pictures. They were not warned that there was DU dust

on the equipment and in the air.

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By all rights, however? Some of the hot sand needs to make a visit to London

to sprinkle on the gardens of the Queen, as well...

British troops start test-firing DU munitions in Kuwait Depleted uranium

rounds were being fired on March 14, 2003, in Kuwait as British troops

acclimatised their tanks to desert conditions. Tanks from the Scots Dragoon

Guards

were expected to carry out firing training on the tank ranges near Camp Coyote,

the camp nearest to the Iraq-Kuwait border. (Scotsman March 14, 2003)

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After what we have done to their country, can we really blame Kuwait for

telling the US it is time to take the radioactive contamination back home with

them?

 

Cathy Garger

 

 

 

 

 

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