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Dear devotees,

Pamho. AgtSP!

 

Here I am sending the letter I have received recently. How far Kali-yuga

has been advancing! This is realy purification. "I hope you will enjoy it."

 

Y.s. MHRd

 

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Roger, my husband and I lead a very heavy anti-NATO campaign here. Today is

aspecially tight because the BBC does not give comments on using DU

(depleted uranium) weapons, what was only mentioned on the CNN. However it

is very hard to break trough this media-blocade.

 

I do not know if you really undrestood it, NATO is not planing to use DU

ammo, NATO is already doing it. EVERY missile contained reduced uranium. In

the time of explosion 80% of this becomes uranium-oxide, a very fine dust,

size of half microns. Ones inhaled it is the equivalent of 20 doses of

standard X-ray rentgen, lifelong (because of long term radiation of this

element). Here we are trying to get the atention of public (here and also

in Yugoslavia) to consider these facts. This is what caused the so-called

"Gulf-sindrom" after the Gulf-war, and now about 80 000 veterans of this

war have the identical simptoms, what says to us that both sides are

affected by this. Now why would they care about us when they do not care

about their own soldiers. I personally have the opinnion that people are

not aware HOW dangerous this is, how horrible and long. It is no longer

about bridges and houses nor about people who lost their lives during the

bombing. After this, also earlier already, used in the Gulf-war and a

little in Bosnia, this kind of amunition was NEVER used so much in the

history of this planet on a so small time-space continuum. It just might

happen that the ones who survived be envious on the dead ones.

 

Please shake the public, this is more than a game...

 

Loves all of you

Tamara & Roger Coghill

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>Sat, 17 Apr 99 10:09 -0700

>"Adam and Easter Christopher" <easter (AT) otn (DOT) net>

>easter (AT) otn (DOT) net,

> VAST (AT) com (DOT) bbt.se

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>Re: Fwd: NATO and Reduced Uranium Bombs

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>Please disregard this post. It is pure bunk.

>After 6 years in the US Navy serving in the highly classified nuclear

>field, I can confidently state that depleted uranium is never used in

>missiles. It is however used (and has been used for 40 years) to make

>"tracer" bullets. Any country that were to use uranium in the manner

>suggested in this post would be subject to an incredible amount of

>international censure for using weapons that can be classified as

>"cruel" or "specifically targeting civilians" in war. The benefits of

>using such weapons would be minimal.

>Adam

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Atmabhu (das) HKS (Belgrade - YU) [2656]

Re: NATO and Reduced Uranium Bombs

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>Sat, 17 Apr 99 10:09 -0700

>"Adam and Easter Christopher" <easter (AT) otn (DOT) net>

>easter (AT) otn (DOT) net,

> VAST (AT) com (DOT) bbt.se

>"COM: VAST (Vaishnava Advanced Studies)" <VAST (AT) com (DOT) bbt.se>

>Re: Fwd: NATO and Reduced Uranium Bombs

>Lines: 10

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>[Text 2242648 from COM]

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>Please disregard this post. It is pure bunk.

>After 6 years in the US Navy serving in the highly classified nuclear

>field, I can confidently state that depleted uranium is never used in

>missiles. It is however used (and has been used for 40 years) to make

>"tracer" bullets. Any country that were to use uranium in the manner

>suggested in this post would be subject to an incredible amount of

>international censure for using weapons that can be classified as

>"cruel" or "specifically targeting civilians" in war. The benefits of

>using such weapons would be minimal.

>Adam

>

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Dear Prabhu PAMHO AGTSP

 

According to Official Informative Centre of YU Army like you explained,they

used in attack on Yu Army on Kosovo that kind of buleets.

However ,if you do not beleive,mabe you can think that NATO cool bomb civil

train ,killing 60 people on the spot,civils of course,and in his endever to

help "poor Albanians " they boomb civil line of Albanian Refugees,kiling

about 80 old Albanian mans,children,womens.atc.Also they bomb many civil

houses,aspetialy on Kosovo region but also all over Serbia,killing many

civiles,leaving many havy woonded, in order to cause humanitarian

catastrophy,to proove their action corect in the public eye in their

countries.The message from all citizens,both Albanians and,Serbians and

others to them is to PLS stop to "help"us.

You are invited to come here and you can with your eyes witness how NATO is

human.

I can tell you freankly,most of the wars worldwide are created by NATO war

machinery in order to make war profits,get new resources,extand their

power,etc.They use politic "give the dog bad name and hang him".

Most dangerous deemons who polute and bewilder whole humanity,as well as

polute Mother Earth are there in their lidhership.{my personal realization}.

So if you want to beleive them good luck.

Afther their action in Mee Lay in Vietnam long ago i am convinced they are

ready to do anything in their interest and i do not beleive them anything

what they are claiming.If you want,go ahead,good luck.

 

Das o smi Atmabhu das

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In response to mataji's Kunti posting how the fact that NATO is using

depleted uranium in Yugo is a pure bunk:

 

 

Civilians At Risk?

 

Pentagon Official: Uranium Bullets Used in Yugoslavia

 

Low- and slow-flying U.S. A-10 aircraft such as this one are firing depleted

uranium rounds at Serb forces, a Pentagon official said. A-10 "Warthogs"

earned a reputation as tank killers during the 1991 Gulf War. (AP Photo/

U.S. Air Force, Senior Airman Jeffrey Allen)

 

 

 

 

By David Ruppe

ABCNEWS.com

May 4 — NATO aircraft are attacking Yugoslav targets with special bullets

that some veterans groups believe were responsible for the illnesses of

thousands of U.S. troops following the 1991 Gulf War.

The controversial rounds, which contain depleted uranium (DU), were

used extensively by U.S. A-10 warplanes to destroy the Iraqi tanks and other

armored vehicles during the Gulf War. They were also used against Bosnian

Serb targets in 1995.

The depleted uranium shells, encased in steel, are even harder than

titanium — an extremely tough, but light metal — and can pierce tank armor

with relative ease. The depleted uranium is a slightly radioactive waste

material that comes from the process of preparing uranium for nuclear

reactors and weapons.

When fired, the armor-piercing rounds leave a radioactive trail. Upon

impact, they could disperse a radioactive uranium dust.

Veterans groups have argued that the rounds may be linked to “Gulf War

Illness,” the mysterious sicknesses suffered by thousands of U.S. troops who

fought in the conflict, and could be hazardous to civilians and the

environment. The Pentagon has acknowledged that thousands of U.S. soldiers

were unnecessarily exposed to DU, but denies that is the cause of Gulf War

Illness.

Quoting an Air Force official, the Christian Science Monitor reported

last week that U.S. A-10 aircraft participating in the airstrikes were armed

with the bullets — but had not yet used them.

Maj. Gen. Charles Wald, who is the Joint Chiefs’ vice director for

strategic plans and policy, acknowledged Monday that 30mm depleted uranium

rounds were in fact being fired by A-10 aircraft against Yugoslav forces.

Not ‘Severe Problem’

But Wald played down the health consequences of using the rounds.

“I’ve been thinking about it and I’ve been around the A-10s for a long

time and I know that I’ve seen the munitions handler put these bullets in

the aircraft, holding on to them for 20 years, so they’ve done a lot of

scientific studies on those things and there really doesn’t seem to be a

severe problem,” said Wald.

“So I don’t think there’s a problem at all with [the rounds]. There’s

never been a problem for any of us so it’s kind of old news,” he said.

Scientists say the greatest risk occurs when the dust is ingested.

Pentagon officials maintain the likelihood is low that the dust would be

ingested by many people.

A 1990 study commissioned by the Army, however, linked depleted uranium

with cancer. It concluded that “no dose is so low that the probability of

effect is zero.”

A subcommission of the United Nation Human Rights Commission resolved

in 1996 that depleted uranium is a weapon of mass destruction that should be

banned.

 

What Are Acceptable Risks?

The Pentagon reportedly has been unable to establish its own safety

standards for using depleted uranium.

The Pentagon’s current regulations are based on Nuclear Regulatory

Commission standards, which require masks and suits when dealing with

depleted uranium contamination.

But a 1993 report by the General Accounting Office, Congress’

investigative arm, said Army officials “believe that DU protective means can

be ignored during battle.”

Pentagon officials told the Monitor the military still needs to decide

what are “acceptable risks” for using depleted uranium in combat.

The National Gulf War Resource Center, a coalition of veterans groups

based in Washington, estimated in January that as many as 600,000 Gulf War

soldiers might have been exposed to some 300 tons of depleted uranium fired

by U.S. aircraft at Iraqi troops in the 1991 Gulf War.

 

 

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ONE WORLD NEWS SERVICE

 

 

The U.S. will neither confirm nor deny but the public has a right to know

 

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9th Febuary 1998

by Felicity Arbuthnot

IRAQ

 

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With the U.S. and Britain poised to begin an intense aerial bombardment of

Iraq, there has been little mention of the consequences it would have for

the health and environment of the Iraqi people and for the region as a

whole. Recently, Russian President Boris Yeltsin expressed concern that an

overly aggressive US posture at a time of high tensions is extremely

dangerous, with possible wider ramifications beyond the region.

 

Once again, we are seeing a vast buildup of weaponry in the region, with

some new additions that set a dangerous precedent. There has been mention in

recent media reports of 'bunker busting' weapons and 'deep-penetration'

bombs that the US has spent huge sums in perfecting. The US tested new

weapons in warfare before, and specifically against Iraq in 1991 when

hundreds of tons of U-238 so-called depleted uranium bullets and shells were

fired from A-10 aircraft, attack helicopters and tanks, littering the

landscape with radioactive debris.

 

There exists the possibility that the US forces will once again test their

latest military technologies on Iraq. On November 15, 1995, at a meeting of

the Nuclear Weapons Council Standing Safety Committee in the US, a request

was made to accelerate the completion date of the B61-11 to December 1996.

The B 61-11 is the nuclear version of the deep-penetrating bomb, destroying

its intended target underground by means of a nuclear explosion. it was

developed and deployed without congressional approval despite assurances

that no new nuclear weapons were being developed in the US.

 

There are other tactical nuclear weapons in the B-61 seies, for example, the

B-61 models 3,4,and 10 that are already deployed in NATO countries and at

bases in Turkey, the country of closest proximity to Iraq. According to

Professor Paul Rogers of Bradford University, the B61-11 was specifically

designed to destroy the deepest and most hardened of underground bunkers,

which the conventional bunker-busting bombs mentioned recently in the press

are incapable of destroying. The dangers of such a weapon include shock

waves leading to seismic activity and the release of high level radioactive

elements.

 

There is a tradition of covering up the use of radioactive weapons. The

public did not find out about the use of U-238 'depleted uranium' weapons

until after the Gulf War. Their use was discovered because of 'friendly

fire' incidents, when allied tanks mistakenly fired U-238 projectiles at

other allied tanks. Presently, the US military is monitoring the radioactive

breakdown of depleted uranium shrapnel lodged inside the bodies of US

troops. Depleted uranium has a half-life of 4.5 billion years. There is now

a fivefold increase of cancers in Iraq. Depleted uranium weaponry have been

condemned as weapons of mass destruction by the United Nations

Sub-Commission for the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of

Minorities. (SC 1997-36).

 

The US has not ruled out the possibility of using the new earth penetrating

B61-11 bomb that can be attached to a B2 bomber or is light enough to be

carried on F16 aircraft. Recent history has shown that previously unheard-of

weapon systems have been used, and in the confusion and immediacy of

warfare, circumstances lead to uncontrolled excalation and accidents.

 

THE PUBLIC HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW WHETHER THESE TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS,

DESIGNED TO EXPLODE AT ONLY 100 FEET UNDERGROUND, WILL BE DEPLOYED.

 

It is not the right of powerful countries to test their new weapons systems

on Third World Countries, or on those countries that are considered 'rogue'

states today, but that were economic and strategic partners in the recent

past. And it is clear that civilians - men, women, and children - will be

killed, despite claims of new, 'accurate' weapons being used.

 

It is not the right of powerful countries to use their military might to

apply pressure on the timetable of negotiations when so much is at stake.

The Iraqi people are desperate; 1.2 million children, according to UNICEF,

have died as a result of sanctions.

 

 

 

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Global Responsibility (SGR)

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