ICONOCLAST: Is there a danger of depleted uranium, being used in weaponry over there,

spreading by air over here?

MORET: The atmosphere globally is contaminated with it. It’s completely mixed in one year.

I’m an expert on atmospheric dust. I’m a geoscientist, a geologist, and that’s what I studied

and did my research on. It’s really a fascinating subject. We have huge dust storms that are

 a million square miles and transport millions of tons of dust and sand every year around the world.

The main centers of these dust storms are the Gobi Desert in China, which is where the Chinese

did atmospheric testing, so that’s all contaminated with radiation, and it gets transported right

over Japan, and it comes straight across the Pacific and dumps all its sand and dust on the U.S.,

North America. It’s loaded with radioactive isotopes, soot, pesticides, chemicals, pollution –

everything is in it -- fungi, bacteria, viruses.

 

The Sahara Desert is another huge dust center, and it goes up all over Europe and straight across

the Atlantic, to the Caribbean, and up the East Coast. Of course, you get it in Texas with

those hurricanes. They all originate in the Sahara Desert.

The third region is the Western United States, which is where the Nevada test site is located.

We did 1,200 nuclear weapons tests there, so all this radiation that is already there,

which is bad enough, has caused a global cancer epidemic since 1945. All of that radiation

was the equivalent of 40,000 Nagasaki bombs. We’re talking about 10 times more.

In April of 2003, the World Health Organization said they expect global cancer rates

to increase 50 percent by the year 2020.

 

Infant mortality is going up again all over the world. This is an indicator of the level

of radioactive pollution.

When the U.S. and Russia signed the partial test ban treaty in 1963,

the infant mortality rate started dropping again, which is normal. Now they are going up again.

It’s the global pollution with this radiation.

ICONOCLAST: I had one of our correspondents send me a series of photographs

of the Al-Asad dust storm in Iraq on April 28.

MORET: That dust is what I’m talking about.

 

ICONOCLAST: In the picture you can see a gigantic wall of sand.

MORET: I have 16 pictures of that storm. They’re posted with photos from Iraqi doctors

of the children of people with cancer and leukemia. So what did you think of that dust storm?

ICONOCLAST: I thought it was really dramatic.

MORET: It remobilizes all the radiation, but those are the larger chunks.

The DU burns at such high temperatures. It’s a pyroforic metal which means it burns.

The bullets and big caliber shells are actually on fire when they come out of the gun barrel

 because they are ignited by the friction in the gun barrel. Seventy percent of the DU metal

becomes a metal vapor. It’s actually a radioactive gas weapon and a terrain contaminant.

I’ll email you the URL of the 1943 memo to General Leslie Grove under the Manhattan Project.

It’s the blueprint for depleted uranium.

They dropped the atomic bombs, but they did not use the DU weapons because

they thought they were too horrific.

 

I’ve toured and gone all over Japan with a pediatrician in Basra and an oncologist, a cancer specialist.

These poor doctors -- their whole families are dying of cancer. He has 10 members of his family

 with cancer now that he’s treating, and this is just from Gulf War I.

They’ve used much, much, much more in 2003. A ll over the whole country.

ICONOCLAST: What can soldiers expect when they come home?

MORET: If they were in Bradley Fighting Vehicles, they’re coming home with rectal cancer

from sitting on ammunition boxes. The young women are reporting terrible problems

with endometriosis. That’s the lining of the uterus malfunctioning, and they just bleed

and bleed and bleed. Some of them have uterine cancer -- 18 and 19 and 20 year olds.

 

The Army will not even diagnose it. They send them back to the battlefields.

They won’t treat them or diagnose them. A group of 20 soldiers pushed from Kuwait

to Baghdad in 2003 in all the fighting. Eight of those 20 soldiers have malignancies.

ICONOCLAST: Does exposure to depleted uranium effect their psychological background

when they come home?

More- http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=6232

Lung cancer rates, according to Swartz in earlier post , are running 6 times ahead

of last year in USA;  could they be higher in England, also?   Beware the needle,  Mudville Rose

 

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/weapons_poison_europe.html

U.S. WEAPONS POISON EUROPE

RADIATION FROM IRAQ WAR DETECTED IN UK ATMOSPHERE

By Leuren Moret
Updated March 4, 2006

A shocking new scientific study by British scientists Dr. Chris Busby and Saoirse Morgan asks: 

"Did the use of uranium  weapons in Gulf War II result in the contamination of Europe?"

High levels of depleted uranium (DU) have been measured in the atmosphere in Britain,

transported on air currents from the Middle East and Central Asia.  Scientists cited the U.S.
bombing of Tora Bora, Afghanistan in 2001 and the "Shock andAwe" bombing during Gulf War II

in Iraq in 2003 as one of the main reasons.

In the 1950s the British government had established an air monitoring facility at the Atomic Weapons

Establishment (AWE) in Aldermaston to measure radioactive emissions from British
nuclear power plants and atomic weapons facilities.

Ironically, AWE was taken over three years ago by Halliburton,
which at first refused to release key data as required by law to Busby.

An international expert on low-level radiation, Busby serves as an official advisor on several

British government committees.  He recently co-authored an independent report on low-level

radiation with 45 scientists with the European Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR)

for the European Parliament.

Busby was eventually able to get Aldermaston's air monitoring data from Halliburton by filing

a freedom of information request using a new British law that became effective Jan. 1, 2005. 

Critical data from 2003 was missing, however, so he had to obtain the information from

the Defence Procurement Agency.

Aldermaston is one of many nuclear facilities throughout Europe that regularly monitor atmospheric

radiation levels transported by sand, dust storms and 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 along with larger sand and dust particles in filters in Britain. 

These particles travelled in seven to nine days from Iraqi battlefields as far away as 2,400 miles.

The radiation measured in the atmosphere quadrupled within a few weeks after the beginning

of the 2003 campaign, and at one of the five monitoring locations, the levels twice required an
official alert to the British Environment Agency.

In addition, according to Busby, the Aldermaston air monitoring data provided a continuous record

of depleted uranium levels in Britain from other recent wars.

Extensive video news footage of the 2003 Iraq war, including Fallujah in 2004, provided evidence

that the United States has illegally used depleted uranium munitions on civilian populations. 

These military actions are in direct violation of not only international conventions but also violate

U.S. military law because the United States 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 U.S. Code Title 50, Chapter 40 Sec. 2302.  After action mandates

have also been violated such as U.S. Army Regulation AR 700-48 and TB 9-1300-278, which

requires treatment of radiation poisoning for all casualties, including enemy soldiers and civilians.

In the mainstream press, British officials have attempted to counter the study by blaming the elevated

uranium levels on "local sources."  Anonymous statements by government scientists used by the media

thus far, however, have been contradicted by evidence disclosed in the report.

Naturally occurring uranium in the crust of the Earth is only 2.4 parts per million and could not become

concentrated to the high levels measured in Britain.  As far as nuclear power plants are concerned,

the lowest levels of uranium measured at monitoring stations around Aldermaston were actually taken

at the facility, which designs and tests nuclear weapons -- meaning this could not possibly be a source.

Atomic weapons facilities would be more likely to produce plutonium contamination,

which was not reported as a contaminant.

This wasn't the first time a noted scientist has discussed
global pollution from the use of DU.

Dr. Keith Baverstock, an expert on radiation, exposed a World Health Organization (WHO) cover-up

on depleted uranium. Baverstock leaked an official WHO report that he had written for the organization

but was never published.  He warned in the report about the environmental contamination from tiny
DU particles formed from U.S. munitions.

In addition, Dr. Katsuma Yagasaki, a Japanese physicist at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa,

estimated that the atomic equivalent of at least 400,000 Nagasaki bombs has been released into

the global atmosphere since 1991 from the use of  DU munitions. 

He said it is mixed in the atmosphere in one year.

DU PROFITS

As if Busby's report is not bad enough, a new book by a leading scientist notes who is making billions

from nightmare armaments.

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 in Australia. 

The mining company was formed for the British royal family in the late 1950s by Roland Walter

"Tiny" Rowland, who was known as the queen's banker and the master financial manipulator behind

billionaire Robert Maxwell's fortune.

The Rothschilds are also profiting enormously from their control of the price and supply

of uranium globally.

The ubiquitous Halliburton just recently finished construction of a 1,000-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, Dick Cheney and the Bush family, are tied to her through

uranium mining and the shared use of DU munitions in the Middle East, Central Asia and Kosovo.

The role that such diverse groups and individuals -- as the Carlyle Group, George H.W. Bush,

former Carlyle CEO Frank Carlucci, Los Alamos and Livermore labs, and U.S. and international

pension fund investments -- have played in proliferating depleted uranium weapons is not well known.
God save the queen from her complicity in turning planet Earth into a death star.

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Leuren Moret is an international expert on the environmental effects of depleted uranium

and has worked at two U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories.