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Title: U.S. WEAPONS POISON EUROPE
Source: American Free Press
URL Source: http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/weapons_poison_europe.html
Published: Mar 10, 2006
Author: Leuren Moret
Post Date: 2006-03-10 03:29:21 by ratcat
Keywords: WEAPONS, POISON, EUROPE
Views: 938
Comments: 55

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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#3. To: ratcat, IndieTx (#0)

"http://americanfreepress.net"

American Free Press, 1433 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Washington, D.C. 20003

ROTFLMAO

NeoCon Shell Game....

man they get your attention and divert your knowledge and thus completely destroy your effectiveness with silliness like this that makes anyone repeating it look just plain stupid.

"Stupid is as stupid does," - Forrest Gump

My guess the response will be "kill the messenger" on F4UM....and I will get in a lot of trouble for this post

Tune in Tokyo Rose tommorrow, same time, same station

Brer'  posted on  2006-03-10   7:02:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Brer' (#3)

Tune in Tokyo Rose tommorrow, same time, same station

I no want to see American service man die. Me f**k you long time GI,

IndieTX  posted on  2006-03-10   7:30:53 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: IndieTX, Brer', Red Jones, Zipporah (#5)

Tune in Tokyo Rose tommorrow, same time, same station

I no want to see American service man die. Me f**k you long time GI,

lol!

Ironically, AWE was taken over three years ago by Halliburton, which at first refused to release key data as required by law to Busby.

So what's this about then? The ubiquitous Halliburton and the neverending coverups.

Why are 300,000 Gulf War I Veterans on disability?

robin  posted on  2006-03-10   11:12:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: robin (#11)

Why are 300,000 Gulf War I Veterans on disability?

Care to share provenance on this claim?

Brer'  posted on  2006-03-10   11:18:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Brer' (#12)

Sure, it's been published for a few years now.

I'll look for the links while you talk about the quote regarding Halliburton.

robin  posted on  2006-03-10   11:32:19 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: All, Brer' (#13)

2003, CNN:

Gulf War veterans suing companies for chemical exports

About 161,000 Gulf War veterans are receiving disability payments from the U.S. government.

robin  posted on  2006-03-10   11:33:51 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: All, Brer' (#14)

From an article "Report Links Exposures To Gulf War Syndrome" by National Gulf War Resource Center, 2004:

Figures from the VA show 182,000 disability claims granted, 27,270 denied and 26,507 still pending, almost 14 years after the end of the war.

robin  posted on  2006-03-10   11:37:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: All, Brer' (#15)

From WND in 2003:

2 of 5 Gulf War vets on disability
209,000 make VA claims,
161,000 getting payments

robin  posted on  2006-03-10   11:38:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: All, Brer' (#17)

2005 from National Gulf War Resource Center, "Ailing veterans blame their MS on Gulf War">

Of the 700,000 U.S. troops who served there in 1991, a disproportionate number experienced serious neurological disorders. More than 65 percent have sought health care for service-related ailments. Nearly 200,000 are receiving disability compensation -- twice the rate as vets from World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

robin  posted on  2006-03-10   11:43:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: All, Brer' (#18)

(from 2002)Ten Reasons Why Many Gulf War Veterans Oppose Re-Invading Iraq

10. The Department of Veterans Affairs will not be able to care for additional casualties because VA can't even take care of current VA patients. Most veterans now wait six months to see a VA doctor, and most veterans wait more than six months to receive a decision on a VA disability claim. Many of those waiting in line are Gulf War veterans, many with unusual illnesses. According to VA, of the nearly 700,000 veterans who served in Desert Shield and Desert Storm, more than 300,000 have sought VA healthcare, and more than 200,000 have filed VA disability claims. Two weeks ago, President Bush slashed $275 million from the healthcare budget of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Although the Iraqi government is a corrupt dictatorship that must eventually be removed, current proposals to remove the government by deploying hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops are deeply flawed. A premature attack against Iraq, especially when the public opposes it, would be a horrible mistake. Since 1990, more than 400 U.S. soldiers have died in the Gulf War theater of operations. Untold hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, both soldiers and civilians, also died. A second invasion of Iraq for one man is not worth one more life; let's use common sense and avert a second Gulf War.

The author is a Gulf War combat veteran.

Support the troops? Go visit the closest VA. Bring 'em home. The Middle-East is none of our business. The Saudis (15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis) are not a democracy, UAE is not a democracy, the Middle-East doesn't like democracies, and IMO, neither does George W. Bush and his cronies.

robin  posted on  2006-03-10   11:48:39 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: robin (#20)

http://www.gulfwarvets.com/du.htm - tons of DU/Gulf war vets infomation.

Lod  posted on  2006-03-10   11:59:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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