Did Coalition Forces use Nukes in Iraq?

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Did Coalition Forces use Nukes in Iraq?

 

 

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> Did Coalition Forces use Nukes in Iraq?

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> Dangerously High Levels of Radiation Measured Around Baghdad

> Daily Express, 1 September 2003

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> The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/EXP309A.html

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> The recorded levels of radiation in Iraq do not conform to the patterns

> observed in the case of depleted uranium ammunition.

> Several reports suggest that Coalition Forces may have used tactical

nuclear

> weapons in Afghanistan and Iraq. Policy statements made by the Bush

> Adminstration and the Blair government, are explicit. The coaltion will

not

> hesitate to use of nuclear weapons against Iraq " if attacked with WMDs "

> Blurring the Nuclear Boundaries, Reuven Pedatzur, 14 Aug,

> http://globalresearch.ca/articles/PED308A.html

> Bush Nuclear Policy: A Recipe for National Insecurity, Alice Slater, 14

> Aug http://globalresearch.ca/articles/SLA308A.html

> Nukes used in Afghanistan?: Discovery of a new type of Nuclear weapon,

> Report of UMRC Field Trip, 17 June

> http://www.umrc.net/downloads/destruction_effects.pdf

> Liberating Iraq' with Nuclear Weapons , Michel Chossudovsky & Ian Woods,

pdf

> version , http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO303A.html

> Another U.S. war crime? Iraqi cities 'hot' with depleted uranium, Sara

> Flounders, 18 Aug http://globalresearch.ca/articles/FLO308B.html

> See also CRG's archive: Nuclear threat: key articles

> http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CRG204C.html

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> Michel Chossudovsky , 5 Sept 03

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> Daily Express, 1 September 2003

> Iraqi Health Risk from Ammunition used in Attack: Radiation Time Bomb

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> David Swift

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> Soldiers and civilians in Iraq face a health time bomb after dangerously

> high levels of radiation were measured around Baghdad.

> Levels between 1,000 and 1,900 times higher than normal were recorded at

> four sites around the Iraqi capital where depleted uranium (DU) munitions

> have been used across wide areas.

> Experts estimate that Britain and the US used 1,100 to 2,200 tons of

> armour-piercing shells made of DU during attacks on Iraqi forces.

> That figure eclipses the 375tons used in the 1991 Gulf War. Unlike that

> largely desert-based conflict, most of the rounds fired in March and April

> were in heavily residential areas.

> DU rounds are highly combustible and tiny particles of the radioactive

> material are left on the battleground.

> If inhaled the material can attack the body causing cancers, chronic

> illness, long-term disabilities and genetic birth defects - none of which

> will be apparent for at least five years.

> Veterans of the first Gulf War believe that DU exposure has played a role

in

> leaving more than 5,000 of them chronically ill and almost 600 dead.

> The Royal Society, Britain's leading scientific body, described America's

> failure to confirm how much or where they used DU rounds as an " appalling

> situation " .

> Professor Brian Spratt, chairman of the society's working group on DU,

said:

> " The Americans are really giving us no information at all and think it is

a

> pretty appalling situation that they are not taking this seriously at all.

> " We really need someone like the UN Environment Programme or the World

> Health Organisation to get into Iraq and start testing civilians and

> soldiers for uranium exposure. "

> Evidence of massive uranium radiation has emerged in recent weeks. The

Fred

> Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle analysed swabs from bullet

> holes in Iraqi tanks and confirmed elevated radiation levels.

> Last month Scott Peterson, of the respected Christian Science Monitor,

took

> Geiger counter readings at several sites in Baghdad. Near the Republican

> Palace, his radiation readings were the " hottest " in Iraq at nearly 1,900

> times background radiation levels.

> Even the Ministry of Defence, which has consistently refused to accept

there

> are dangers involved in DU exposure or that it has played role in Gulf War

> illnesses is addressing the problem. Soldiers returning from this year's

> conflict will be routinely tested for uranium poisoning. Professor Malcolm

> Hooper, who sits on two committees advising the Government on Gulf health

> issues, said he is not surprised by the radiation levels.

> He said: " Really these things are dirty bombs. Exactly the sort of device

> that President Bush and Prime Minister Blair keep talking about being in

the

> hands of terrorists. "

> Dozens of US soldiers, backed by armoured vehicles and helicopter

gunships,

> searched farms on the outskirts of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul

> yesterday in their hunt for followers of Saddam Hussein.

> Thousands of Iraqis packed into northern Baghdad yesterday for the funeral

> of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim, a Shi'ite Muslim cleric slain by a

car

> bomb which also killed scores of his followers.

> A senior official in Hakim's Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in

> Iraq (SCIRI) said the Americans bore some blame for Friday's attack as

they

> had failed to ensure adequate security measures.

> Up to five suspects, all of them Iraqi, have been detained over the car

bomb

> attack, the local governor said yesterday.

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> Japan Economic Newswire, August 16, 2003

> Iraq cancer cases caused by depleted uranium shells

> An increasing number of Iraqis are suffering from cancer and leukemia

> allegedly caused by depleted uranium shells the United States military

used

> in the area, two visiting doctors from Iraq said in presentations in Japan

> over the past two weeks.

> Around 116 out of 100,000 people were diagnosed in 2001 with cancer in the

> vicinity of Basra in southern Iraq, where the U.S. military used depleted

> uranium shells in the Persian Gulf War in 1991, according to one of the

> doctors. The number marks a 10-fold increase from the 11 cases diagnosed

in

> 1988, he said.

> Jawad Al Ali, 59, a doctor from Basra, said an increasing number of

families

> have members who are suffering from cancer, and the death toll from cancer

> has risen 19-fold during the same period.

> Several Japanese civic groups jointly invited Ali and Janan Ghalib Hassan

to

> Japan as part of their activities to make known the harmful effects of

> depleted uranium shells. The two delivered presentations in cities

including

> Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were devastated by atomic bombs the U.S.

> dropped in 1945 in World War II.

> Hassan, 47, said that in 2001, 611 babies were born with no limbs, no eyes

> or other birth defects, compared with 37 such cases in 1990.

> Ali expressed concern that a high number of cancer patients will emerge in

> Baghdad and other parts of the country due to the recent U.S.-led war on

> Iraq.

> Depleted uranium, a metal remainder left when natural uranium is refined,

is

> used in artillery shells and bombs designed to penetrate tanks and other

> armored vehicles. The metal is believed to turn into small particles when

a

> shell hits its target, and can be toxic in humans if breathed or eaten.

> The U.S. has been denying, including via embassy Web sites, such adverse

> effects, asserting there is no basis to claims that depleted uranium

causes

> cancer in newborns.

> But Yuko Fujita, an assistant professor at Keio University who examined

the

> effects of radioactivity in Iraq from May to June, said that damage from

> depleted uranium will be more serious in the future due to the recent war.

> 'I doubt that Iraq is fabricating data because in fact there are many

> children suffering from leukemia in hospitals,' Fujita said. 'As a result

of

> the Iraq war, the situation will be desperate in some five to 10 years.'

> Regarding efforts by Japan in helping to rebuild Iraq, he said, 'Japan

> should build up-to-date hospitals for children with cancer instead of

> sending Self-Defense Forces personnel.'

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