Missile with Depleted Uranium May Have Been Used at Pentagon

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Missile with Depleted Uranium May Have Been Used at Pentagon

 

 

 

 

 

Missile with Depleted Uranium May Have Been Used at Pentagon

 

 

August 18, 2005

By Greg Szymanski

 

 

A radiation expert and high-ranking Army Major, who once headed the

military's depleted uranium project, both contend the Pentagon was hit

by missile, not a commercial jetliner, adding high radiation readings

after the strike indicate depleted uranium also may have been used.

 

 

" I'm not an explosives or crash site expert, but I am highly

knowledgeable in causes and effects related to nuclear radiation

contamination. What happened at the Pentagon is highly suspicious,

leading me to believe a missile with a depleted uranium warhead may

have been used, " said radiation expert Leuren Moret in a telephone

conversation this week from her Berkeley, CA home.

 

Moret, who has spent a life time working in the nuclear field, first

as a staff scientist at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory in

California, is now a member of The Radiation and Public Health Project

(RPHP), a privately funded group studying the devastating effects of

depleted uranium especially in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

 

Regarding the missile theory, it is also backed up by retired Army

Maj. Doug Rokke, a PhD educational physics and former top military

expert banished from the Pentagon after the military failed to follow

regulations regarding the use, clean up and medical treatment

regarding the use of depleted uranium.

 

" When you look at the whole thing, especially the crash site void of

airplane parts, the size of the hole left in the building and the fact

the projectile's impact penetrated numerous concrete walls, it looks

like the work of a missile, " said Maj. Rokke from his Rantoul, IL home

this week. " And when you look at the damage, it was obviously a

missile. Also, if you look at the WTC and the disturbing flash hitting

the tower right before the impact of the airplane, it also looks like

a missile was used. "

 

 

And to prove the government's jetliner theory is wrong, Moret said the

quick actions of a friend near the Pentagon on the morning of 9/11,

provide even more suspicion.

 

 

Moret recalls on the tragic morning that once she saw the jetliner

strike the twin towers and then heard about the Pentagon crash, she

immediately called a close friend in Alexandria VA, Dr. Janette Sherman.

 

 

Thinking radiation might be involved, she quickly asked Dr. Sherman,

77, a radiation expert and medical doctor who lived about 12 miles

from the crash site, to get a Geiger counter reading.

 

What the pair of experts found is astonishing. What they found is not

only astonishing but four years after 9/11, what's even more

incredible is that their findings have been completely ignored by most

everyone, including the Bush administration, the 9/11 Commission and

the mainstream media, all who appear more interested in rubber

stamping the official 9/11 story then getting at the real truth.

 

" Dr. Sherman was downwind from the Pentagon on 9/11 and her Geiger

counter readings show an extremely high reading, a reading of more

than eight to ten times higher than normal, " said Moret, also an

expert in the cause and effects of depleted uranium.

 

" Dr. Sherman, who is well-respected radiation expert herself, then

went about contacting the proper authorities in order to try and alert

emergency responders of the radiation risk at the Pentagon crash site.

And we have also kept photos of the Geiger counter readings in order

to verify what Dr. Sherman found 12 miles away. "

 

 

After notifying the Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency (NIRS), experts

from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the FBI were

alerted and according to Moret, radiation experts later confirmed high

radiation levels at the Pentagon crash site possibly from the presence

from depleted uranium or other unknown causes.

 

But what disturbed Moret most has been the Bush administration's lack

of concern and its failure to mount a thorough investigation into what

really caused the high radiation levels, saying perhaps the findings

might reveal something contrary to the official story that a jetliner

rammed through 12 Pentagon walls of solid concrete.

 

 

" Even if there was depleted uranium used, do you think the likes of

Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld would really care? These are bottom feeders

that 20 or 30 years ago wouldn't have been even allowed to set foot in

such high positions of power, " said Moret.

 

Although Dr. Sherman's Geiger counter can't be a conclusive finding,

another nuclear radiation expert, Marion Fulk, agrees the positive

reading, if anything, is suspicious.

 

" It definitely looks suspicious but of course many factors have to be

considered before a conclusion is reached, " said Fulk in a telephone

conversation this week. " The type of Geiger counter used by Dr.

Sherman needs to be looked at as well as the possibility of the true

source of the radiation, whether it is depleted uranium in a missile,

ballast in the airplane or within the structure of the building hit. "

 

 

Even though no one can be sure, one thing positive is the Bush

administration never really seriously cared about addressing the

possibility of depleted uranium at the Pentagon just like it cares

little about the same problem at the World Trade Center and in the war

fields of Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

 

And, more recently, Moret, Fulk and Maj. Rokke, along with Dennis

Kyne, Bob Jones and Mark Zeller, have provided documentation for an

explosive video written and produced by Joyce Riley and William Lewis

called " Beyond Treason, " providing an in depth look at depleted

uranium used in the Gulf Wars and its likelihood of causing numerous

civilian and military illnesses.

 

 

" It has been determined that the equivalent of more than 400,000

Nagasaki bombs has been released in the middle east since 1991, " said

Moret, citing a report and subsequent speech at a 2000 depleted

uranium conference given by Professor Yagasaki, a physicist and

well-respected nuclear radiation expert.

 

And in the 89 minute video, exploring a massive government cover up,

Riley and Lewis point out the unexplained illnesses in civilians and

military personal may be the cause of depleted uranium or perhaps a

combination of overlapping causes, including chemical and biological

exposure and the use of experimental vaccines.

 

The writers of Beyond Treason, added

 

" The ailing Gulf War heroes from all 27 coalition countries slowly die

from of " unknown causes, " they wait for answers from their respective

governments, but no satisfying or even credible answers have come

forth from the military establishment. Records that span over a decade

point to negligence and even culpability on the part of the U.S.

Department of Defense and their `disposable army " mentality.

 

 

" The VA has determined that 250,000 troops are now permanently

disabled, 15,000 troops are dead and over 425,000 are ill and slowly

dying from what the Department of Defense still calls a mystery

disease. How many more will have to die before action is taken? "

 

And in February, 2004, a conference called " Dialogues with Decision

Makers " was held in New Delhi, India, where a group of experts

gathered for the prevention of nuclear war and looked closely at the

depleted uranium problem in the Middle East.

 

Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, former chief of the Naval Staff in India,

reported the following shocking details about the effects of depleted

uranium:

 

" In the 2003 war, the Iraqi's were subjected to the Pentagon's

radioactive arsenal, mainly in the urban centers, unlike in the

deserts in 1991. The aggregate effects of illnesses and long term

disabilities and genetic birth defects will be apparent only 2008

onwards.

 

 

" By now, half of all the 697,000 US soldiers involved in the 1991 war

have reported serious illnesses. According the American Gulf War

Veterans Association, more than 30% of these soldiers are chronically

ill, and receiving disability benefits from the Veterans Administration.

 

" Near the Republican Palace where US troops stood guard and over 1000

employees walked in and out, the radiation readings were the hottest

in Iraq, at nearly 1900 times background radiation levels.

 

" At a roadside stand, selling fresh bunches of parsley, mint, and

onions, children played on a burnt out Iraqi tank just outside

Baghdad, the Geiger counter registered 1000 times normal background

radiation.

 

" The Pentagon and the United Nations estimate that the US and Britain

used 1,100 to 2,200 tons of armor piercing shells made of DU during

attacks in March-April 2003, far more than the 1991 Gulf War (this

does not include air dispensed DU munitions and missiles), " wrote the

Post Intelligencer.

 

" The long term effects, as Dr Asaf Durakovic elaborates, after the

early neurological symptoms are cancer, and related radiation

illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome, joint and muscle pain,

neurological and/or nerve damage, mood disturbances, auto-immune

deficiencies, lung and kidney damage, vision problems, skin rupture,

increase in miscarriages, maternal mortality and genetic birth

defects/deformation.

 

" For years the US government described the Gulf War Syndrome as a

post traumatic stress disorder. It was labeled as a psychological

problem or simply as mysterious unrelated ailments much in the same

way as health problems of Vietnam veterans suffering from Agent Orange

poisoning. "

 

 

http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/article/1518131/31824.htm

 

For more informative articles, go to www.arcticbeacon.com.Greg Szymanski