DU–from Appalachia to Afghanistan to Iraq
A conference and encampment on Depleted Uranium production in Appalachia
has been scheduled for May 19 at East Tennessee State University in Jonesboro, TN to kick-off the May 18-27 Stop DU delegation visit.
Info and registration: DU Conference
ETSU links and campus map: http://DUweapons.notlong.com
Conference updates & blogs: Stop-DU news and Wild Clearing
To join the Stop DU delegation go to CPT’s delegation website.
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American Forces are using
depleted uranium(DU) munitions in the war in Iraq. DU is radioactive and
chemically toxic and an illegal weapon of mass destruction according to
UN resolutions. It contaminates land, causes ill-health
and cancer among the soldiers using the weapons, the armies
they target, and civilians.
- Uranium weapons
have been blamed for the effects of
Gulf
War syndrome —
typified
by chronic muscle and joint pain, fatigue and memory loss —
among 200,000 US soldiers after the 1991 conflict.
- “the US government
has so far
refused to conduct a thorough study
of the health of the thousands of Gulf War veterans
it acknowledges were exposed to DU, enabling DoD spokesmen to plausibly but deceptively
deny the existence of evidence linking DU to veterans’ health problems.”
-Dan Fahey,
Facts, Myths, and Propaganda in the Debate over Depleted Uranium Weapons
www.wise-uranium.org/pdf/dumyths.pdf
“They won’t do it.
They never looked for problems,
so they didn’t find any.”
-Major Doug Rokke
http://www.shunpiking.com/DODU/OC0203-NC-ispent-HJ.htm