In study after study, research pointed to the use of depleted uranium (DU) in American and British weaponry as the culprit. But authorities concentrated their efforts into obfuscating the problem--downplaying its reach, discrediting scientists and ailing military personnel, and erecting a smoke screen around the "syndrome's" root causes.
More recently, the Uranium Medical Research Center, an independent group of U.S. and Canadian scientists that has conducted studies of Afghan civilians, found overwhelming evidence that the United States is also using non-depleted uranium (NDU) in its weapons, which is far more radioactive than DU. "If the use of NDU indicates experimental application of new nuclear weapons, as the UMRC suggests, then it should alert the public that proliferation of small nuclear weaponry, proposed for some future use, has in fact already begun," wrote Stephanie Hiller in Awakened Woman.
At the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan in Tokyo last December, a team of attorneys from Japan, the United States and Germany indicted Bush on a number of war crimes charges--among them the use of DU weapons. Leuren Moret, president of Scientists for Indigenous People, testified that a U.S. government study conducted on the babies of Gulf War veterans conceived after the soldiers returned home found that a full two-thirds suffered from serious birth defects or illnesses, including being born without eyes or ears, or with missing or malformed organs or limbs. In Iraq, Moret said, the defects are even worse. But those are just some of the images of war that we never see on the evening news.
Sources: "UMRC's preliminary findings from Afghanistan and Operation Enduring Freedom" and "Afghan field trip #2 report: Precision destruction, indiscriminate effects," Tedd Weyman, UMRC Research Team, Uranium Medical Research Center, January 2003; "Scientists uncover radioactive trail in Afghanistan," Stephanie Hiller, Awakened Woman, January 2004; "There are no words Radiation in Iraq equals 250,000 Nagasaki bombs," Bob Nichols, Dissident Voice, March 2004; "Poisoned?", Juan Gonzalez, New York Daily News, April 2004; "International Criminal Tribune for Afghanistan at Tokyo: The people vs. George Bush," Niloufer Bhagwat J., Information Clearinghouse, March 2004.
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