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Uranium bombing in Iraq contaminates Europe

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Monday March 20, 2006 21:08author by Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winnerauthor email bob.bobnichols at gmail dot com Report this post to the editors

SF BayView article

Nine days after the start of the American president's 2003 "shock and awe" uranium bombing campaign in Baghdad, an invisible radioactive uranium oxide gas cloud swept through Britain's towns and countryside and throughout Europe

Uranium bombing in Iraq contaminates Europe

by Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner

Nine days after the start of the American president's 2003 "shock and awe" uranium bombing campaign in Baghdad, an invisible radioactive uranium oxide gas cloud swept through Britain's towns and countryside and throughout Europe.

Related Link: http://www.sfbayview.com/031506/uraniumbombing031506.shtml
author by jimpublication date Mon Mar 20, 2006 22:08author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The use of radioactive material in dessert terrain creates what is know as Deadly Desert Dust, radiation is carried in the sand, the sand then distributed widely by the wind with awful consequences.

There has been a huge increase in cancer rates in some areas of Iraq, some research uncovered that children played in the shells of blown up tanks, and were exposed to radioactive material from the uranium tipped shells the U.S used to blow them up.

author by Terencepublication date Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:09author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Lots more material about the horrors of depleted uranium at the link below.

Related Link: http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/du.htm
author by Seán Ryanpublication date Tue Mar 21, 2006 17:55author address author phone Report this post to the editors

More links.

First piece has lots of excellent links with loads more information on depleted uranium - domestic and militaristic uses..
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74089
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74048

 
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