US Removing Depleted Uranium

Iraqi cancers, birth defects blamed on U.S. depleted uranium
By LARRY JOHNSONSEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER FOREIGN DESK EDITOR
SOUTHERN DEMILITARIZED ZONE, Iraq -- On the "Highway of Death," 11 miles north of the Kuwait border, a collection of tanks, armored personnel carriers and other military vehicles are rusting in the desert.
They also are radiating nuclear energy.
In 1991, the United States and its Persian Gulf War allies blasted the vehicles with armor-piercing shells made of depleted uranium -- the first time such weapons had been used in warfare -- as the Iraqis retreated from Kuwait. The devastating results gave the highway its name.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/95178_du12.shtml

Remains of toxic bullets litter Iraq
The Monitor finds high levels of radiation left by US armor-piercing shells.
By Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0515/p01s02-woiq.html


Ecological Warfare
Iraq's Environmental Crisis
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR and JOSHUA FRANK
Depleted uranium has a half-life of more than 4 billion years, approximately the age of the Earth. Thousand of acres of land in the Balkans, Kuwait and southern Iraq have been contaminated forever.

http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair10252007.html

Army made video warning about dangers of depleted uranium but never showed it to troops
A special investigation on the effects of depleted uranium reveals the Army made a tape warning of the effects of depleted uranium which was never shown to troops despite the fact the Pentagon knew the agent to be potentially deadly, CNN reports Tuesday.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/CNN_Agent_Orange_tame_compared_to_0206.html

Depleted Uranium Contaminates Europe
By Lauren Moret 27 February, 2006
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.
http://www.countercurrents.org/moret270206.htm