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" The claim that Saddam Hussein's government did not keep records of the health and deformaties of Iraqi children represents the usual complete and utter deliberate misinformation one would expect from "Sky News"investigation team..
In fact, very detailed records have existed since 1991 of the health of Iraqi children and the unborn who were effected by 800 tons of depleted uranium dust that saturated Iraq from the most toxic war in history carried out by the US in the Gulf.
In conjunction to this depleted uranium, there was also massive amounts of assorted deadly toxic chemicals released into the environment of Iraq by the US's bombing of Iraq's industrial and manufacturing plants.
Iraq's Ministry of Health kept very precise records of Iraqi children who had been born deformed through the effects of depleted uranium and these toxic chemicals, as well as the children whose health had been effected by no clean water to drink,US led enforced starvation which caused many diseases, and US's denial of medicines to alleviate the children's ongoing pain and suffering.
The 'investigative team' obviously needs to inform themselves further on this subject, For instance,for starters they could research Iraq's submission to the United Nations' Centre for Human Rights, Geneva - 16th January, 1995."Rights of the Child" etc.
Pictures of Iraq's babies such as these,can be viewed from as far back as 1992.These pictures represent the ongoing stream of Iraqi childrens' suffering that has been endured for the past 19 years. The US genocide on the Iraqi people of Fallujah is merely another addition. And the US ensures that they still suffer.
Under Bill Clinton 750,000 Iraq children 5 years and under died from US-led UN genocide carried out against them. Well,after all,the US does boast it is the biggest and best at everything.
And from this, interestingly, few Americans appear to see Bill Clinton as being guilty of crimes against humanity. Bearing in mind 750,000 Iraqi child deaths equals approx 250 September the 11ths.
Sadly,the overwhelming majority of the people of the US know very little of the real truth of Iraq. Nor are they aware of the detail of continuing crimes that have been carried out against the Iraqi people by their government for a record 19 years and still going.
Perhaps the readers should question why "Sky News" whom have been lying down on the truth of this matter for the past 19 years, now only in the past 15 months takes up this issue.
Yet again,their hypocrisy knows no bounds."
anne | 09.02.09 - 6:21 am | #
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" Geologist Leuren Moret is an independent scientist and internationally recognized expert on radiation, D.U., and public health. She estimates that "one millionth of a gram [of depleted uranium] accumulating in a person's body would be fatal. There are no known methods of treatment."
Leuren Moret states, "In a cubic meter of air there are one billion particles a tenth of a micron in diameter. An ordinary man breathes twenty-eight cubic meters of air a day and for that reason our soldiers internally contaminated to depleted uranium have billions of particles of depleted uranium distributed throughout their bodies."
Re | 09.02.09 - 6:56 am | #
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Depleted Uranium remains radioactive for 4.5 Billion years
http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/i/77.html
"Depleted uranium weapons:
Depleted Uranium itself is a chemically toxic and radioactive compound, which is used in armour piercing munitions because of its very high density. It is 1.7 times denser than lead, giving DU weapons increased range and penetrative power. They belong to a class of weapons called kinetic energy penetrators.
It is now clear that DU was used on a large scale by the US and the UK in the Gulf War in 1991, then in Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo, and again in the war in Iraq by the US and the UK in 2003. It is suspected that the US also used DU in Afghanistan in 2001, although both the US and UK governments have denied using it there. However, leaked transport documents suggest that US forces in Afghanistan have DU weapons
The DU oxide dust produced when DU munitions burn has no natural or historical analogue. This toxic and radioactive dust is composed of two oxides: one insoluble, the other sparingly soluble. The distribution of particle sizes includes sub-micron particles that are readily inhaled into and retained by the lungs.
From the lungs uranium compounds are deposited in the lymph nodes, bones, brain and testes. Hard targets hit by DU penetrators are surrounded by this dust and surveys suggest that it can travel many kilometres when re-suspended, as is likely in arid climates. The dust can then be inhaled or ingested by civilians and the military alike.
It is thought that DU is the cause of a sharp increase in the incidence rates of some cancers, such as breast cancer and lymphoma, in areas of Iraq following 1991 and 2003. It has also been implicated in a rise in birth defects from areas adjacent to the main Gulf War battlefields.
Soft target impacts, typical of aircraft strikes, tend to leave the penetrators partially intact as the vast majority miss their targets. In the Balkans more than 31,000 30mm penetrators were fired; UNEP reported that these corroding penetrators were likely to contaminate groundwater and drinking water supplies and should be removed.
While we have a reasonable idea how much DU was used in the Balkans (12,700kg) and the 1991 Gulf War (290,300kg), there is little data on the extent of its use following the 2003 invasion in Iraq. One estimate put the total at 140,000kg by early 2004; with far more being used in urban areas than in 1991. This was chiefly a product of a move towards asymmetric warfare but also an increasingly casual approach to DU’s use.
The US consistently refused to release data on the locations of DU strikes to UNEP and post-conflict instability has made assessing the true extent of contamination virtually impossible.
The chief radiological hazard from uranium 238 is alpha radiation. When inhaled or ingested, alpha radiation is the most damaging form of ionising radiation. However, as U238 decays into its daughter products thorium and protactinium, both beta and gamma radiation are released, increasing the radiation burden further. Therefore DU particles must be considered as a dynamic mixture of radioactive isotopes.
Inside the body alpha radiation is incredibly disruptive. The heavy, highly charged particles leave a trail of ionised free radicals in their wake, disrupting finely tuned cellular processes. In one day, one microgram, (one millionth of a gram), of pure DU can release 1000 alpha particles. Each particle is charged with more than four million electron volts of energy; this goes directly into whichever organ or tissue it is lodged in. It only requires 6 to 10 electron volts to break a DNA strand in a cell and these emissions cover a sphere with a radius of 6 cells.
Novel effects from internal emitters are highlighting the hazards posed by exposure to internal alpha radiation. This includes the Bystander Effect - whereby cells adjacent to those struck by alpha particles also exhibit signs of radiation damage, and Genomic Instability, where the descendants of radiation damaged cells show increased rates of mutations: the precursor to cancer growth.
Ionizing radiation is a human carcinogen at every dose-level, not just at high doses; there is no threshold dose and any alpha particle can cause irreparable genetic damage."
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Iraq since 1991:
1991 Gulf War - 400,000 dead Iraqis
1991 - 2003 Sanctions against Iraq - 1 million dead Iraqis
2003 - 2009 Invasion and Occupation of Iraq - 1.4 million dead Iraqis
Iraq's society, infrastructure, economy destroyed
Iraq's Land, Earth, Water and Air permanently until the end of time contaminated with Depleted Uranium causing cancer, death and horrific birth deformities.
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