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According to Fisk, the media are reluctant to discuss civilian casualties caused by Western intervention in the Middle East. He cited as an example an epidemic of cancer caused by Depleted Uranium (D.U.) in Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War, a story that was not printed in most papers. DU is a material contained in weapons used by the U.S. military...
...things some day. Yet the forbidden weaponry turned up so far is pretty tame: 16 undeclared chemical warheads, illegal importation of 200 missile engines and the disappearance of some high explosives that could be used for nuclear warheads. Also uncovered were documents that describe a technique used to enrich uranium...
...documents relating to Iraqi weapons programs were seized, under protest, after inspectors visited the homes of two scientists in Baghdad. White House officials said the documents deal with nuclear programs; Mohamed ElBaradei, the U.N.'s chief nuclear inspector, later indicated that the trove includes details of an old enriched-uranium project. There may be more such discoveries ahead. Both the British and the Americans are giving the inspectors intelligence leads (the British claim responsibility for the discovery of the chemical warheads) and believe that the combination of Iraqi intransigence and rigorous, informed inspections will soon convince international opinion that only...
...Doctors have a different explanation, but Nazad's reasoning is close enough. Her family lives in Al Zubair, a town on Iraq's border with Kuwait. This area was heavily bombed during the Gulf War. According to the U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute, more than 900,000 depleted uranium tipped bullets were fired. When they exploded, say experts, toxic substances were released in the ground and air, and after four or five years, entered the food chain, affecting human lives. Gulf War syndrome has been reported in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and even among American soldiers on the ground. (Washington denies...
...President Bush's "axis of evil" campaign about to be undermined in his own backyard? A proposed uranium enrichment facility planned in Hartsville, Tenn. (pop. 2,395) raises just that question. One of the plant's principal backers is URENCO, a European consortium linked to leaks of enrichment technology to, yes, Iran, Iraq, and North Korea - as well as to Pakistan...