- The Sunday Times Online, February 19,
2006, reported on a shocking scientific study authored by British scientists
Dr. Chris Busby and Saoirse Morgan: "Did the use of Uranium weapons
in Gulf War 2 result in contamination of Europe? Evidence from the measurements
of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), Aldermaston, Berkshire, UK".
The highest levels of depleted uranium ever measured in the atmosphere
in Britain, were transported on air currents from the Middle East and Central
Asia; of special significance were those from the Tora Bora bombing in
Afghanistan in 2001, and the "Shock & Awe" bombing during
Gulf War II in Iraq in 2003. Out of concern for the public, the official
British government air monitoring facility, known as the Atomic Weapons
Establishment (AWE), at Aldermaston was established years ago, to measure
radioactive emissions from British nuclear power plants and atomic weapons
facilities.
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- The British government facility (AWE)
was taken over 3 years ago by Halliburton, which refused at first to release
air monitoring data, as required by law, to Dr. Busby. An international
expert on low level radiation, Busby serves as an official advisor on several
British government committees, and co-authored an independent report on
low level radiation with 45 scientists, the European Committee on Radiation
Risk (ECRR), for the European Parliament. He was able to get Aldermaston
air monitoring data from Halliburton /AWE by filing a Freedom of Information
request using a new British law which became effective January 1, 2005;
but the data for 2003 was missing. He obtained the 2003 data from the
Defence Procurement Agency.
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- The fact that the air monitoring data
was circulated by Halliburton/AWE to the Defence Procurement Agency, implies
that it was considered to be relevant, and that Dr. Busby was stonewalled
because Halliburton/AWE clearly recognized that it was a serious enough
matter to justify a government interpretation of the results, and official
decisions had to be made about what the data would show and its political
implications for the military. In a similar circumstance, in 1992, Major
Doug Rokke, the Director of the U.S. Army Depleted Uranium Cleanup Project
after Gulf War I, was ordered by a U.S. Army General officer to write
a no-bid contract "Depleted Uranium, Contaminated Equipment, and Facilities
Recovery Plan Outline" for the procedures for cleaning up Kuwait,
including depleted uranium, for Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), a subsidiary
of Halliburton. The contract/proposal was passed through Madeleine Albright,
the Secretary of State, to the Emirate of Kuwait, who considered the terms
and then hired KBR for the cleanup.
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- Aldermaston is one of many nuclear facilities
throughout Europe that regularly monitor atmospheric radiation levels,
transported by atmospheric sand and dust storms, or air currents, from
radiation sources in North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. After
the "Shock and Awe" campaign in Iraq in 2003, very fine particles
of depleted uranium were captured with larger sand and dust particles in
filters in Britain. These particles traveled in 7-9 days from Iraqi battlefields
as far as 2400 miles away. The radiation measured in the atmosphere quadrupled
within a few weeks after the beginning of the 2003 campaign, and at one
of the 5 monitoring locations, the levels twice required an official alert
to the British Environment Agency.
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- In addition to depleted uranium data
gathered in previous studies on Kosovo and Bosnia by Dr. Busby, the Aldermaston
air monitoring data provided a continuous record of depleted uranium levels
in Britain from the other recent wars. Extensive video news footage of
the 2003 Iraq war, including Fallujah in 2004, provided irrefutable documented
evidence that the US has unethically and illegally used depleted uranium
munitions on cities and other civilian populations. These military actions
are in direct violation of not only the international conventions, but
also violate US military law because the US is a signatory to The Hague
and Geneva Conventions and the 1925 Geneva Gas Protocol. Depleted uranium
weaponry meets the definition of a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) in
two out of three categories under US Code TITLE 50, CHAPTER 40 Sec. 2302.
After action mandates have also been violated such as US Army Regulation
AR 700-48 and TB 9-1300-278 which requires treatment of radiation poisoning
for all casualties, including enemy soldiers and civilians, and remediation.
Dr. Busby's request for this data through Halliburton from AWE, and subsequently
provided by the Defence Procurement Agency, was necessary to establish
verification of Iraq's 2003 depleted uranium levels in the atmosphere.
These facts demonstrate why Halliburton (AWE) refused to release the 2003
data to him, and it obviously establishes that weaponized depleted uranium
is an indiscriminate weapon being distributed all over the world in a very
short period of time, immediately after its use.
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- The recent documentary film BEYOND TREASON details the horrific effects of depleted uranium
exposure on American troops and Iraqi civilians in the Gulf region in 1991; not to speak of
those civilians continuing to live in permanently contaminated and thus
uninhabitable regions. Global increases since 1991 of melanoma, infant
mortality, and frog die-offs can only be explained by an environmental
contaminant. Alarming global increases in diabetes, with high correlation
to depleted uranium wars in Iraq, Bosnia/Kosovo, and Afghanistan, demonstrate
that diabetes is a sensitive indicator and a rapid response to internal
depleted uranium exposure. Americans in 2003 reported visiting Iraqi relatives
in Baghdad who were suffering from an epidemic of diabetes. After returning
to the US following 2-3 weeks in Iraq, they discovered within a few months
that they too had diabetes. Japanese human shields and journalists who
worked in Iraq during the 2003 war are sick and now have symptoms typical
of depleted uranium exposure.
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- Likewise, after the US Navy, several
years ago, moved depleted uranium bombing and gunnery ranges from Vieques
Island in Puerto Rico to Australia, health effects there are already being
reported. The documentary film BLOWIN' IN THE WIND, has an interview with
a family with two normal teenage daughters, living near the bombing range
where depleted uranium weaponry is now being used. The parents showed
photos of their baby born recently with severe birth defects. The baby
looked like Iraqi deformed babies, and like many of the Iraqi babies, died
5 days after birth.
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- Other than anonymous British government
officials denying that Iraq was the source of the depleted uranium measured
at Aldermaston by AWE, and some unnamed 'establishment scientists' blaming
it on local sources or natural uranium in the Iraq environment, there is
no one, as of this writing, willing to lend their name or office to refuting
this damning evidence reported by Dr. Busby. All of the anonymous statements
used by the media thus far are contradicted by the factual evidence found
in the filters, which was all transported from the same region. The natural
abundance of uranium in the crust of the earth is 2.4 parts per million,
which would not become concentrated to the high levels measured in Britain
during a long journey from the Middle East. These particles traveling
over thousands of miles would dilute the concentration rather than increase
it. There are no known natural uranium deposits in Iraq which make it
impossible for these anonymous claims to have scientific credibility.
Unnamed government sources blamed local sources in Britain such as nuclear
power plants; however that would also leave evidence of fission products
in the filters which were not in evidence. The lowest levels measured
at monitoring stations around Aldermaston were at the facility, which means
it could not be a possible source. Atomic weapons facilities would be
more likely to produce plutonium contamination, also not reported as a
co-contaminant at Aldermaston. In other words, all factual evidence considered,
the question must be asked, what were the Medias anonymous experts and
government officials basing their claims on?
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- Dr. Keith Baverstock exposed a World
Health Organization (WHO) cover-up on depleted uranium in an Aljazeera
article, "Washington's Secret Nuclear War" posted on September
14, 2004. It was the most popular article ever posted on the Aljazeera
English language website . Baverstock leaked an official WHO report that
he wrote, to the media several years ago after the WHO refused to publish
it. He warned in the report about the mobility of, and environmental contamination
from, tiny depleted uranium particles formed from US munitions. Busby's
ECRR report challenged the International Committee on Radiation Protection
(ICRP) standards for radiation risk, and reported that the mutagenic effects
of radiation determined by Chernobyl studies are actually 1000 times higher
than the ICRP risk model predicts. The ECRR report also establishes that
the ICRP risk model, based on external exposure of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
victims, and the ECRR risk model, based on internal exposure, are mutually
exclusive models. In other words, the ICRP risk model based on external
exposure cannot be used to estimate internal exposure risk. The report
also states that a separate study is needed for depleted uranium exposure
risks, because it may be far more toxic than nuclear weapons or nuclear
power plant exposures. In July of 2005, the National Academy of Sciences
reported in their new BEIR VII report on low level radiation, that there
is "no safe level of exposure". The report also finally admitted
that very low levels are more harmful per unit of radiation than higher
levels of exposure, also known as the "supralinear" effect.
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- This is extremely alarming information
on low level radiation risk, since the AWE data from Aldermaston confirms
that rapid global transport of depleted uranium dust is occurring. Dr.
Katsuma Yagasaki, a Japanese physicist at the University of the Ryukyus
in Okinawa, has estimated that the atomicity equivalent of at least 400,000
Nagasaki bombs has been released into the global atmosphere since 1991,
from the use of depleted uranium munitions. It is completely mixed in
the atmosphere in one year. The "smog of war" from Gulf War
I was found in glaciers and ice sheets globally a year later. Even more
alarming is the non-specific catalytic or enzyme effect from internal exposures
to nanoparticles of depleted uranium. Soldiers on depleted uranium battlefields
have reported that, after noticing a metallic taste in their mouths, within
24-48 hours of exposure they became sick with Gulf War syndrome symptoms.
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- Who is profiting from this global uranium
nightmare? Dr. Jay Gould revealed in his book THE ENEMY WITHIN, that the
British Royal family privately owns investments in uranium holdings worth
over $6 billion through Rio Tinto Mines. The mining company was formed
for the British Royal family in the late 1950's by Roland Walter "Tiny"
Rowland, the Queen's buccaneer. Born in 1917 through illegitimate German
parentage, and before changing his name, Roland Walter Fuhrhop was a passionate
member of the Nazi youth movement by 1933, and a classmate described him
as "...an ardent supporter of Hitler and an arrogant, nasty piece
of work to boot." His meteoric rise and protection by intel agencies
and the British Crown are an indication of what an asset he has been for
decades to the Queen, as Africa's most powerful Western businessman. Africa
and Australia are two of the main sources of uranium in the world. The
Rothschilds control uranium supplies and prices globally, and one serves
as the Queen's business manager. Filmmaker David Bradbury made BLOWIN'
IN THE WIND to expose depleted uranium bombing and gunnery range activities
contaminating pristine areas of eastern Australia, and to expose plans
to extract over $36 billion in uranium from mines in the interior over
the next 6 years. Halliburton has finished construction of a 1000 mile
railway from the mining area to a port on the north coast of Australia
to transport the ore. The Queen's favorite American buccaneers, Cheney,
Halliburton, and the Bush family, are tied to her through uranium mining
and the shared use of illegal depleted uranium munitions in the Middle
East, Central Asia and Kosovo/Bosnia. The major roles that such diverse
individuals and groups as the Carlyle Group, George Herbert Walker Bush,
former Carlyle CEO Frank Calucci, the University of California managed
nuclear weapons labs at Los Alamos and Livermore, and US and international
pension fund investments have played in proliferating depleted uranium
weapons is not well known or in most instances even recognized, inside
or outside the country.
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- God Save The Queen from the guilt of
her complicity in turning Planet Earth into a 'Death Star'.
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