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Depleted Uranium Contaminates Europe - Evidence Was Hidden By Halliburton

by messenger Wednesday, Mar. 01, 2006 at 10:59 PM

....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.

THE QUEEN'S DEATH STAR

Depleted Uranium Measured in British Atmosphere from Battlefields in the Middle East

February 24, 2006

By Leuren Moret



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



The recent documentary film BEYOND TREASON [http://www.beyondtreason.com] details the horrific effects of depleted uranium exposure on American troops and Iraqi civilians [http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m19825&l=i&size=1&hd=0] 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.



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.



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?



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 [http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Secret-Nuclear-War14sep04.htm]. 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.



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.



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 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 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.



God Save The Queen from the guilt of her complicity in turning Planet Earth into a 'Death Star.

http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/6621639.html

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did I read that right?

by Sheepdog Wednesday, Mar. 01, 2006 at 11:51 PM

Did he Global transport?

Wow a made up term for a made up term.

Like 'depleted' Uranium.

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UK radiation jump blamed on Iraq shells

by Hex Thursday, Mar. 02, 2006 at 12:11 AM

UK radiation jump blamed on Iraq shells

Mark Gould and Jon Ungoed-Thomas



The Sunday Times - Britain

The Sunday Times February 19, 2006

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2047373,00.html





RADIATION detectors in Britain recorded a fourfold increase in uranium levels in the atmosphere after the “shock and awe” bombing campaign against Iraq, according to a report.

Environmental scientists who uncovered the figures through freedom of information laws say it is evidence that depleted uranium from the shells was carried by wind currents to Britain.



The results from testing stations at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Aldermaston and four other stations within a 10-mile radius were obtained by Chris Busby, of Liverpool University’s department of human anatomy and cell biology.

Each detector recorded a significant rise in uranium levels during the Gulf war bombing campaign in March 2003. The reading from a park in Reading was high enough for the Environment Agency to be alerted.

Busby, who has advised the government on radiation and is a founder of Green Audit, the environmental consultancy, believes “uranium aerosols” from Iraq were widely dispersed in the atmosphere and blown across Europe.

“This research shows that rather than remaining near the target as claimed by the military, depleted uranium weapons contaminate both locals and whole populations hundreds to thousands of miles away,” he said.



Busby’s report shows that within nine days of the start of the Iraq war on March 19, 2003, higher levels of uranium were picked up on five sites in Berkshire. On two occasions, levels exceeded the threshold at which the Environment Agency must be informed, though within safety limits. The report says weather conditions over the war period showed a consistent flow of air from Iraq northwards.



Is the problem weather, or is it war?

Something more serious is happening to our planet which we are not being told about

By Robert Fisk

02/26/06 "The Independent"



(an excerpt where the winds relating to Uranium dust is mentioned)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12080.htm

Out here in the Middle East, for instance, pilots have told me that head winds can now be so fierce at high altitude that they are being forced to request lower altitudes from air traffic control. As a flyer who knows how to be afraid on a bumpy flight - I am - I can tell you that I haven't encountered as much turbulence as I have in the past 24 months.

Now a deviation - but an important one. A British scientist, Chris Busby, has been digging through statistics from the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment which measures uranium in high-volume air samples. His suspicion was that depleted uranium particles from the two Gulf wars - DU is used in the anti-armour warheads of the ordnance of American and British tanks and planes - may have spread across Europe. I'm not a conspiracy theorist but here's something very odd.

When Busby applied for the information from Aldermaston in 2004, they told him to get lost. When he demanded the information under the 2005 Freedom of Information Act, Aldermaston coughed up the figures. But wait.

The only statistic missing from the data they gave him was for the early months of 2003. Remember what was happening then? A little dust-up in Iraq, a massive American-British invasion of Saddam's dictatorship in which tons of DU shells were used by American troops. Eventually Busby, who worked out all the high-altitude wind movements over Europe, received the data from the Defence Procurement Agency in Bristol - which showed an increase in uranium in high-volume air sampling over Britain during this period.

Well, we aren't dead yet - though readers in Reading will not be happy to learn that the filter system samplings around Aldermaston showed that even they got an increase.

Shock and awe indeed.

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note however "Sheepdog" that it's over there across the vast oceans and this increase was noted during a period when both thousands of tons were used AND the wind was blowing north toward Europe

Data collected shows a jump overseas during that time due to the local weather over there but there's no jump HERE - not even elsewhere in the northern hemisphere much less the southern (global)

Sometimes smoke from fires in China make it over here - but again not the southern hemisphere, not actually global

fear mongering without data has no place on the newswire - real news with real data (especially FOIA data) does however..

I was just about to post the above when I came here and saw it already.

notice the data, the links, the FOIA requests

real - hard evidence

see, I told you if there was any real concern I would alert people

the problem here is some of the dust carried in the wind over a few thousand miles over a *land mass* during a major attack where tons were released

that's a far cry however from it getting across the vast oceans (several thousand miles, natural cleaning action) or crossing into the southern hemisphere to actually BE global

(by ignoring the southern hemisphere you're discounting 1/2'th the earth and forgetting the two sides are separated making it hard for anything in the troposhere to get down there. If it was the stratosphere it would be a different story - it eventually *would* become global then just as powerful volcanic eruptions sometimes do)



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and that explains why

by some troll Thursday, Mar. 02, 2006 at 12:17 AM

That explains why it ended up in local Iraqi glaciers and ice fields..

:>).

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in *antarctica* ?

by Hex Thursday, Mar. 02, 2006 at 12:43 AM

and would that be the "it" you've been fear mongering about (constant/permanent/global NOT just downwind from a huge attack, only DURING the attack/a short time afterward,before the dust settled/was absorbed)

try to leave critical thinking to people with at least a grade school education

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did you really type this?

by :>) Thursday, Mar. 02, 2006 at 12:57 AM
pay-atten-here-Whizz@wowzville.gov/

most than this ha ha ha ha

by still laughing Monday, Feb. 27, 2006 at 7:08 PM report troll post

Thank you, I've never laughed so hard. I must post many pictures of myself and where I live . For you and your friends.

did you type this : [ except for the bracketed additions..]... ?



"Sheepdog (Bill Gallagher[*] - a scam artist who rips people off with his fake antiques, "Tesla secrets" and "bio-rings") is trying his very best to obscure the whole issue because I exposed him [*] as well [*] and put a stop to his spam/plugging his website [*tweet]



as with sheepdog/billder*- [*tweet tweet...]

*THEY NEVER POSTED AT THE SAME TIME* [*** TWEET! ]

they forgot to keep playing the other person because they were distracted by the attack/attention of the other persona [Tweet ]



Sheepdog and Billder have never posted at the same time either - never *talked to eachother* like two separate people normally would [Tweet ]

Also, with all the material I posted on Billder, *he's never responded AS Billder* - ever, not even one time.. [ Tweet ]

Yet "sheepdog" has exploded [Tweet ] on me *several times* when I even *hinted* at Billder without even saying his name directly . [ Tweet ]

There's never been a time when "sheepdog" and Bill had any dialogue at all but "sheepdog" *speaks for and defends* Bill - vigorously ! [ Tweet !]

While Bill himself is completely mute " [ Tweet tweet tweet... ***** **]

Very funny.

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still wiping tears of laughter away

by Whizzericium 240! Thursday, Mar. 02, 2006 at 1:02 AM

Ahh Whizz you're too .... dang much.

When are we moving to the south pole?

I thought they didn't allow garbage to be deposited there.

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ZZZZzzzZZzzzzZZZZZzzzz

by Hex Thursday, Mar. 02, 2006 at 1:09 AM

the intertropical convergence zone (doldrums) separates the northern & southern hemispheres making it difficult for pollution in the troposhere to cross

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looks good to me

by Some troll Thursday, Mar. 02, 2006 at 1:28 AM

Yep it looks pretty good for interface mixing except for those 5 mile high

plastic sheeting, boundary enclosures.

Thank you again.

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sheepdog's gradeschool education

by Hex Thursday, Mar. 02, 2006 at 1:41 AM

NOTE : the wind was blowing northwest at the time

NOTE 2 : when it only went across a little span of ocean it was only barely detectable

NOTE 3: this was *only* during a time when thousands of tons was being dropped during a major attack

NOTE 4 : none detected at all anywhere else except *downwind* - not across the equator, not over here - nowhere else

so much for your ignorant "global contamination carried on Brownian movements" BS

and to think - they teach this in grade school..

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thank you

by That's Great Thursday, Mar. 02, 2006 at 1:45 AM

Always to be counted on to dig up the tailored graphics.

I see the plastic sheeting failed in several sections.

:>(

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based on the FOIA obtained measurements...

by Hex Thursday, Mar. 02, 2006 at 2:01 AM

scientific measurements - gee what a concept !

no plastic sheeting failed - I'd say from your denials the tinfoil did though

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and thank you again

by some of these FOIA s Thursday, Mar. 02, 2006 at 2:05 AM

And I again thank you for the links and references.

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christ

by from your link, Whizz Thursday, Mar. 02, 2006 at 2:16 AM

This research shows that rather than remaining near the target as claimed by the military, depleted uranium weapons contaminate both locals and whole populations hundreds to thousands of miles away,”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2047373,00.html

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yes I already showed that

by Hex Thursday, Mar. 02, 2006 at 2:45 AM

I guess you can't read a map either...

surprising ?

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your map not DoD or FOIA maps

by al CIAduh attacks Thursday, Mar. 02, 2006 at 3:22 AM

That's your little map,like you, simplistic incomplete and misleading.

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"misleading" he spews

by Hex Thursday, Mar. 02, 2006 at 3:52 AM

correct - my map, which is based on the above story

I'm sorry I didn't tint the whole globe red for you there, which would cause you to scorch your shorts in glee, a veritable paranoia orgy for sure..

But that would have been :cough: misleading

not that you would mind as you drifted off into a relaxed slumber from such a mind blowing orgasm

but your mental masterbations do not science & accuracy make I'm afraid

welcome to the sterile world of real science where mental jerk-offs can't make the grade !

enjoy your stay - however brief

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-scorch your shorts in glee-

by scorcher Thursday, Mar. 02, 2006 at 4:02 AM

Like

What?

scorch your shorts in glee....

Not quite sure what you mean here.

A hobby of yours?

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well what do you call it ?

by Hex Thursday, Mar. 02, 2006 at 4:16 AM

audio: MP3 at

I mean after all, you do it all the time -

dont'cha goober

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audio?

by good idea Thursday, Mar. 02, 2006 at 4:41 AM

listen to this link.

http://www.cloakanddagger.de/shows/webcast/Schoenman/CLOAKandDAGGER.DE_RS022606.mp3

but it has little to do with my 2nd grade ( forged ) education.

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