DIRTY BOMBS, DIRTY MISSILES, DIRTY BULLETS

From: Dr. Jai Maharaj (usenet_at_mantra.com)
Date: 09/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:54:47 GMT

DIRTY BOMBS, DIRTY MISSILES, DIRTY BULLETS

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Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets

S.F. Bay View (San Francisco)
Auugust 18, 2004

Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty
bullets

A death sentence here and abroad

By Leuren Moret

At an April press conference, a group of New York Army National Guard
vets raised their hands when asked if they have health problems. The
soldiers, all from the 442nd Military Police Company, are complaining of
headaches and fatigue after what they think is exposure to depleted
uranium during their recent tour in Iraq.

'Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign
policy.' - Henry Kissinger, quoted in 'Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the
United States Betrayed Its Own POW's in Vietnam'

Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large
regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally
the most devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S. has
staged four nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which, like
Agent Orange, meets the U.S. government definition of Weapons of Mass
Destruction. Vast regions in the Middle East and Central Asia have been
permanently contaminated with radiation.

And what about our soldiers? Terry Jemison of the Department of Veterans
Affairs reported this week to the American Free Press that 'Gulf-era
veterans' now on medical disability since 1991 number 518,739, with only
7,035 reported wounded in Iraq in that same 14-year period.

This week the American Free Press dropped a 'dirty bomb' on the Pentagon
by reporting that eight out of 20 men who served in one unit in the 2003
U.S. military offensive in Iraq now have malignancies. That means that 40
percent of the soldiers in that unit have developed malignancies in just
16 months.

Since these soldiers were exposed to vaccines and depleted uranium (DU)
only, this is strong evidence for researchers and scientists working on
this issue, that DU is the definitive cause of Gulf War Syndrome.
Vaccines are not known to cause cancer. One of the first published
researchers on Gulf War Syndrome, who also served in 1991 in Iraq, Dr.
Andras Korényi-Both, is in agreement with Barbara Goodno from the
Department of Defense's Deployment Health Support Directorate, that in
this war soldiers were not exposed to chemicals, pesticides, bioagents or
other suspect causes this time to confuse the issue.

This powerful new evidence is blowing holes in the cover-up perpetrated
by the Pentagon and three presidential administrations ever since DU was
first used in 1991 in the Persian Gulf War. Fourteen years after the
introduction of DU on the battlefield in 1991, the long-term effects have
revealed that DU is a death sentence and very nasty stuff.

Scientists studying the biological effects of uranium in the 1960s
reported that it targets the DNA. Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist
retired from the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab and formerly involved with
the Manhattan Project, interprets the new and rapid malignancies in
soldiers from the 2003 war as 'spectacular - and a matter of concern.'

This evidence shows that of the three effects which DU has on biological
systems - radiation, chemical and particulate - the particulate effect
from nano-size particles is the most dominant one immediately after
exposure and targets the Master Code in the DNA. This is bad news, but it
explains why DU causes a myriad of diseases which are difficult to
define.

In simple words, DU 'trashes the body.' When asked if the main purpose
for using it was for destroying things and killing people, Fulk was more
specific: 'I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of
people.'

Soldiers developing malignancies so quickly since 2003 can be expected to
develop multiple cancers from independent causes. This phenomenon has
been reported by doctors in hospitals treating civilians following NATO
bombing with DU in Yugoslavia in 1998-1999 and the U.S. military invasion
of Iraq using DU for the first time in 1991. Medical experts report that
this phenomenon of multiple malignancies from unrelated causes has been
unknown until now and is a new syndrome associated with internal DU
exposure.

Just 467 U.S. personnel were wounded in the three-week Persian Gulf War
in 1990-1991. Out of 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, 11,000
are dead, and by 2000 there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability.
This astounding number of disabled vets means that a decade later, 56
percent of those soldiers who served now have medical problems.

The number of disabled vets reported up to 2000 has been increasing by
43,000 every year. Brad Flohr of the Department of Veterans Affairs told
American Free Press that he believes there are more disabled vets now
than even after World War II.

They brought it home

Not only were soldiers exposed to DU on and off the battlefields, but
they brought it home. DU in the semen of soldiers internally contaminated
their wives, partners and girlfriends. Tragically, some women in their
20s and 30s who were sexual partners of exposed soldiers developed
endometriosis and were forced to have hysterectomies because of health
problems.

In a group of 251 soldiers from a study group in Mississippi who had all
had normal babies before the Gulf War, 67 percent of their post-war
babies were born with severe birth defects. They were born with missing
legs, arms, organs or eyes or had immune system and blood diseases. In
some veterans' families now, the only normal or healthy members of the
family are the children born before the war.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has stated that they do not keep
records of birth defects occurring in families of veterans.

How did they hide it?

Before a new weapons system can be used, it must be fully tested. The
blueprint for depleted uranium weapons is a 1943 declassified document
from the Manhattan Project.

Harvard President and physicist James B. Conant, who developed poison gas
in World War I, was brought into the Manhattan Project by the father of
presidential candidate John Kerry. Kerry's father served at a high level
in the Manhattan Project and was a CIA agent.

Conant was chair of the S-1 Poison Gas Committee, which recommended
developing poison gas weapons from the radioactive trash of the atomic
bomb project in World War II. At that time, it was known that radioactive
materials dispersed in bombs from the air, from land vehicles or on the
battlefield produced very fine radioactive dust which would penetrate all
protective clothing, any gas mask or filter or the skin. By contaminating
the lungs and blood, it could kill or cause illness very quickly.

They also recommended it as a permanent terrain contaminant, which could
be used to destroy populations by contaminating water supplies and
agricultural land with the radioactive dust.

The first DU weapons system was developed for the Navy in 1968, and DU
weapons were given to and used by Israel in 1973 under U.S. supervision
in the Yom Kippur war against the Arabs.

The Phalanx weapons system, using DU, was tested on the USS Bigelow out
of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in 1977, and DU weapons have been sold by
the U.S. to 29 countries.

Military research report summaries detail the testing of DU from 1974-
1999 at military testing grounds, bombing and gunnery ranges and at
civilian labs under contract. Today 42 states are contaminated with DU
from manufacture, testing and deployment.

Women living around these facilities have reported increases in
endometriosis, birth defects in babies, leukemia in children and cancers
and other diseases in adults. Thousands of tons of DU weapons tested for
decades by the Navy on four bombing and gunnery ranges around Fallon,
Nevada, is no doubt the cause of the fastest growing leukemia cluster in
the U.S. over the past decade. The military denies that DU is the cause.

The medical profession has been active in the cover-up - just as they
were in hiding the effects from the American public - of low level
radiation from atmospheric testing and nuclear power plants. A medical
doctor in Northern California reported being trained by the Pentagon with
other doctors, months before the 2003 war started, to diagnose and treat
soldiers returning from the 2003 war for mental problems only.

Medical professionals in hospitals and facilities treating returning
soldiers were threatened with $10,000 fines if they talked about the
soldiers or their medical problems. They were also threatened with jail.

Reporters have also been prevented access to more than 14,000 medically
evacuated soldiers flown nightly since the 2003 war in C-150s from
Germany who are brought to Walter Reed Hospital near Washington, D.C.

Dr. Robert Gould, former president of the Bay Area chapter of Physicians
for Social Responsibility (PSR), has contacted three medical doctors
since February 2004, after I had been invited to speak about DU. Dr.
Katharine Thomasson, president of the Oregon chapter of the PSR, informed
me that Dr. Gould had contacted her and tried to convince her to cancel
her invitation for me to speak about DU at Portland State University on
April 12. Although I was able to do a presentation, Dr. Thomasson told me
I could only talk about DU in Oregon 'and nothing overseas - nothing
political.'

Dr. Gould also contacted and discouraged Dr. Ross Wilcox in Toronto,
Canada, from inviting me to speak to Physicians for Global Survival
(PGS), the Canadian equivalent of PSR, several months later. When that
didn't work, he contacted Dr. Allan Connoly, the Canadian national
president of PGS, who was able to cancel my invitation and nearly
succeeded in preventing Dr. Wilcox, his own member, from showing photos
and presenting details on civilians suffering from DU exposure and cancer
provided to him by doctors in southern Iraq.

Dr. Janette Sherman, a former and long-standing member of PSR, reported
that she finally quit some time after being invited to lunch by a new PSR
executive administrator. After the woman had pumped Dr. Sherman for
information all through lunch about her position on key issues, the woman
informed Dr. Sherman that her last job had been with the CIA.

How was the truth about DU hidden from military personnel serving in
successive DU wars? Before his tragic death, Sen. Paul Wellstone informed
Joyce Riley, R.N., B.S.N., executive director of the American Gulf War
Veterans Association, that 95 percent of Gulf War veterans had been
recycled out of the military by 1995. Any of those continuing in military
service were isolated from each other, preventing critical information
being transferred to new troops. The 'next DU war' had already been
planned, and those planning it wanted 'no skunk at the garden party.'

The US has a dirty (DU) little (CIA) secret

A new book just published at the American Free Press by Michael Collins
Piper, 'The High Priests of War: The Secret History of How America's Neo-
Conservative Trotskyites Came to Power and Orchestrated the War Against
Iraq as the First Step in Their Drive for Global Empire,' details the
early plans for a war against the Arab world by Henry Kissinger and the
neo-cons in the late 1960s and early 1970s. That just happens to coincide
with getting the DU 'show on the road' and the oil crisis in the Middle
East, which caused concern not only to President Nixon. The British had
been plotting and scheming for control of the oil in Iraq for decades
since first using poison gas on the Iraqis and Kurds in 1912.

The book details the creation of the neo-cons by their 'godfather' and
Trotsky lover Irving Kristol, who pushed for a 'war against terrorism'
long before 9/11 and was lavishly funded for years by the CIA. His son,
William Kristol, is one of the most influential men in the United States.

Both are public relations men for the Israeli lobby's neo-conservative
network, with strong ties to Rupert Murdoch. Kissinger also has ties to
this network and the Carlyle Group, who, one could say, have facilitated
these omnicidal wars beginning from the time former President Bush took
office. It would be easy to say that we are recycling World Wars I and
II, with the same faces.

When I asked Vietnam Special Ops Green Beret Capt. John McCarthy, who
could have devised this omnicidal plan to use DU to destroy the genetic
code and genetic future of large populations of Arabs and Moslems in the
Middle East and Central Asia - just coincidentally the areas where most
of the world's oil deposits are located - he replied: 'It has all the
handprints of Henry Kissinger.'

In Zbignew Brzezinski's book 'The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and
Its Geostrategic Imperatives,' the map of the Eurasian chessboard
includes four regions strategic to U.S. foreign policy. The 'South'
region corresponds precisely to the regions now contaminated permanently
with radiation from U.S. bombs, missiles and bullets made with thousands
of tons of DU.

A Japanese professor, Dr. K. Yagasaki, has calculated that 800 tons of DU
is the atomicity equivalent of 83,000 Nagasaki bombs. The U.S. has used
more DU since 1991 than the atomicity equivalent of 400,000 Nagasaki
bombs. Four nuclear wars indeed, and 10 times the amount of radiation
released into the atmosphere from atmospheric testing!

No wonder our soldiers, their families and the people of the Middle East,
Yugoslavia and Central Asia are sick. But as Henry Kissinger said after
Vietnam when our soldiers came home ill from Agent Orange, 'Military men
are just dumb stupid animals to be used for foreign policy.'

Unfortunately, more and more of those soldiers are men and women with
brown skin. And unfortunately, the DU radioactive dust will be carried
around the world and deposited in our environments just as the 'smog of
war' from the 1991 Gulf War was found in deposits in South America, the
Himalayas and Hawaii.

In June 2003, the World Health Organization announced in a press release
that global cancer rates will increase 50 percent by 2020. What else do
they know that they aren't telling us? I know that depleted uranium is a
death sentence for all of us. We will all die in silent ways.

To learn more

Sources used in this story that readers are encouraged to consult:

American Free Press four-part series on DU by Christopher Bollyn. Part I:
'Depleted Uranium: U.S. Commits War Crime Against Iraq, Humanity,'

www.americanfreepress.net/depleted_uranium.html

Part II: 'Cancer Epidemic Caused by U.S. WMD: MD Says Depleted Uranium
Definitively Linked,'

www.americanfreepress.net/html/cancer_epidemic_.html

August 2004 World Affairs Journal. Leuren Moret: 'Depleted Uranium: The
Trojan Horse of Nuclear War,'

www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Trojan-Horse1jul04.htm

August 2004 Coastal Post Online. Carol Sterrit: 'Marin Depleted Uranium
Resolution Heats Up - GI's Will Come Home To A Slow Death,'

www.coastalpost.com/04/08/01

World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference, Hamburg, Germany, October 16-
19, 2004:

www.worlduraniumweaponsconference.de/speakers/speakers.htm

International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan. Written opinion of Judge
Niloufer Baghwat:

www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Afghanistan-Criminal-Tribunal10mar04.htm

'Discounted Casualties: The Human Cost of Nuclear War' by Akira Tashiro,
foreword by Leuren Moret,

www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/index_e.html

Leuren Moret is a geoscientist who has worked around the world on
radiation issues, educating citizens, the media, members of parliaments
and Congress and other officials. She became a whistleblower in 1991 at
the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab after experiencing major science fraud
on the Yucca Mountain Project. An environmental commissioner in the City
of Berkeley, she can be reached at leurenmoret@yahoo.com.

http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml

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