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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: 933
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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#1. To: ratcat (#0)

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.

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.

How can these people live with themselves?

No wonder the RW dismisses any mention of the environment by scientists as myth and junk science.. they dare not have any of their constituency take heed of scientists warnings.. And how much evidence has to mount up before the world puts a stop to this.. how long are they going to stand by and let them put all of us in danger?

Zipporah  posted on  2006-03-10   5:47:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Zipporah, IndieTx (#1)

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

With all due respect for "OPINIONS" I can't believe some of the silly quotes I read here on F4Um.

Put 3% H2O2 up your nose, then drink H2O2 to cure everything from infertility to syphilis... now this....lets unravel this ridiculous rant from an obvious muddle-head

First...uranium detected in Europe is most likely A) non-existant in accordance with the bull in the rest of this article or B) from buddy Klinton/MadMaddie/Rubin/ Clark all leftist darlings who DID admittedly, in public and on film, state they used spent uranium in the bombs and missiles rained on Yugoslavia, 30,000 of them, your ONLY staunch ally in Europe for a century. These peoploe pulled your fathers out of burning planes and ships and sent them back to you safe and sound while the muslims and Nazis tortured and killed your fathers.

So look first to Klintoonia and the Terror Bombing of Serbia and its province Kosovo to pay off the muslims by killing the Christians for them and stealing Christian land for the latest Al Quaeda narcotics and white slave base.

NATO aircraft rained more than 30,000 DU bombs on Kosovo during the 11-week air campaign… About 10 tons of the debris were scattered across Kosovo. Perhaps 300 tons of DU weapons were used in the first Gulf war.

2) 400,000 Nagasaki bombs ROTFLMFAO...can anybody do third grade arithmetic? I know the schools are dumbed down and it shows in this kind of silly thing any adult would laugh at....

so let's go through it s l o w l y

First, DU is an alpha emitter (virtually harmless) and a Beta emitter ( harmful if ingested or breathed) but DU in no way produces the secondary thousands of tons of emitters alpha, beta and gamma, nor the high energy particles, that is produced by a fusion device. Do I want to eat DU ? No. But it is used as ballast every day in aircraft and boats.

Now the 400,000 Nagasakis...

Nagasaki was 20,000 tons of TNT equivalent. 20,000 X 2000 POUNDS is 40,000,000 pounds of TNT. A bunker buster contains about 650 pounds of TNT.

So for the article to come close to being believable, 60,000 X 400,000 Bunker Busters would have to be dropped...

or 24,000,000,000 24 BILLION BUNKER BUSTERS...

Can I stop now?

This is silly and does not deserve anything but laughter from adults....

How is it that posters feel comfortable in putting up stuff like this unchallenged?

It is actually harmful in addition to being silly to give stuff like this a bye ....

Untrue is always harmful....silly untrue and , well, is just plain silly.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/bunker-buster3.htm

Brer'  posted on  2006-03-10   6:52:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: Brer' (#2)

Now the 400,000 Nagasakis...

Nagasaki was 20,000 tons of TNT equivalent. 20,000 X 2000 POUNDS is 40,000,000 pounds of TNT. A bunker buster contains about 650 pounds of TNT.

So for the article to come close to being believable, 60,000 X 400,000 Bunker Busters would have to be dropped...

or 24,000,000,000 24 BILLION BUNKER BUSTERS...

Can I stop now?

You haven't answered me here.

You ... deliberately ... told ... a ... bald ... faced ... lie.

You ... did ... it ... knowingly.

You lied to the people on this forum in an attempt to push your wingnut, moonbat views over on them.

As you know, Dr. Katsuma Yagasaki, not talking about tons of TNT or explosive yield in the quote, he was talking about equivalent amounts of dangerous uranium released into the atmosphere.

You -- deliberately -- spun this to make it sound like they were talking about explosive yield.

If you are correct in your view, why do you find it necessary to tell a deliberate, knowing, bald face lie to support yourself?

I think I know why you haven't anwered me here.

You can't.

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#31. To: ..., Brer' (#22)

I went into this in detail here...

http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi? ArtNum=4389&Disp=470#C470

http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi? ArtNum=10100&Disp=2#C2

Axenolith  posted on  2006-03-10   12:54:57 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: Axenolith (#31)

went into this in detail here...

My point was that Dr. Katsuma Yagasaki's was not dealing with the explosive yield of 400,000 Nagasaki bombs.

Dr. Katsuma Yagasaki was talking about the amount of toxic uranium products that would have been released by 400,000 Nagasaki bombs.

I ojected to Brer spinning it by saying something to the effect that billions of bunker busters would be needed to equal the explosive yield of 400,000 nagasaki bombs.

The number of chemical bombs needed to equal the explosive yield of 400,000 Nagasaki bombs has nothing to do with what Yagasaki said. Brer knows this. He is attempting to obfuscate the issue in the same way that he tried to obfuscate the issue in his response to me.

I don't know if Dr. Yagasaki's assertion holds up or not, but that isn't the issue here.

The issue is that Brer constructed a strawman from Dr. Yagasaki's statement and then attacked the strawman -- instead of presenting evidence that contradicted Dr. Yagasaki's actual assertion.

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#35. To: ... (#32)

Every single statement and analogy contradicted that rabid clown and you too.

Brer'  posted on  2006-03-10   14:05:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#37. To: Brer' (#35)

Every single statement and analogy contradicted that rabid clown and you too.

I know you can't itemize this or go into any sort of detail.

It's bullshit to cover that fact that you shot your mouth off and got caught.

These sorts of blankets statements are the best you can do.

That is why you tried to dodge my post until I came back and gaffed you a second time.

Even then you didn't present a rational argument to support yourself. Just a wingnut personal attack.

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#39. To: Brer' (#35)

/chuckle.

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