Iraqi Cities 'Hot' with Depleted Uranium - Dutch Worry About Depleted Uranium As Troops Enter Iraq

Again I will say how can the government give a # about Iraqis when it doesn't even give # about it's own and allied troops?

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Has U.S. use of depleted-uranium weapons turned Iraq into a radioactive danger area for both Iraqis and occupation troops?

This question has already had serious consequences. In hot spots in downtown Baghdad, reporters have measured radiation levels that are 1,000 to 1,900 times higher than normal background radiation levels.

It has also opened a debate in the Netherlands parliament and media as 1,100 Dutch troops in Kuwait prepare to enter Iraq as part of the U.S./British-led occupation forces. The Dutch are concerned about the danger of radioactive poisoning and radiation sickness in Iraq.

Do you know for how long the stuff keeps on radiating the area...? We aren't talking about decades here.......

When did these readouts start coming up with such results? Only since the US attack, or beforehand? Just wondering, because if it was beforehand too... well we know what that means was there.

Originally posted by Djarums
When did these readouts start coming up with such results? Only since the US attack, or beforehand? Just wondering, because if it was beforehand too... well we know what that means was there.

Baghdad June 24 2003: A US military health physicist and radiation expert in Iraq today endorsed the call from Greenpeace for the UN nuclear experts, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), to be given a full mandate to search, survey and decontaminate towns and villages around the Tuwaitha nuclear facility near Baghdad.

The call, made by the head of the US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventative Medicine, Lieutenant Colonel Mark Melanson, came after Greenpeace activists returned a large canister containing uranium �yellowcake� to the Tuwaitha facility this morning. The canister, the size of a small vehicle, had been left abandoned in an open field in a nearby village. When they invaded Iraq, the US and UK failed to safeguard dangerous nuclear material, secured at Tuwaitha while under Saddam Hussein�s regime, and highly radioactive materials have ended up in local communities where they are threatening people's health and environment.

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Remains of toxic bullets litter Iraq

No one has warned the vendor in the faded, threadbare black gown to keep the toxic and radioactive dust off her produce. The children haven't been told not to play with the radioactive debris. They gather around as a Geiger counter carried by a visiting reporter starts singing when it nears a DU bullet fragment no bigger than a pencil eraser. It registers nearly 1,000 times normal background radiation levels on the digital readout.

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