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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.


Stop-DU press conference, 12.03.06
Stop-DU press conference, 12.03.06
Stop-DU press conference, 12.03.06

  • 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

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