*Ø* Blogmanac | Iraq's real WMD crime
by Lawrence Smallman
"There are weapons of mass destruction all over Iraq and they were used this year. Iraqi children continue to find them every day.
"They have ruined the lives of just under 300,000 people during the last decade -- and numbers will increase.
"The reason is simple. Two hundred tonnes of radioactive material were fired by invading US forces into buildings, homes, streets and gardens all over Baghdad.
"The material in question is depleted uranium (DU). Left over after natural uranium has been enriched, DU is 1.7 times denser than lead -- effective in penetrating armoured objects such as tanks.
"After a DU-coated shell strikes, it goes straight through before exploding into a burning vapour which turns to dust.
"'Depleted uranium has a half life of 4.7 billion years –- that means thousands upon thousands of Iraqi children will suffer for tens of thousands of years to come. This is what I call terrorism,' says Dr Ahmad Hardan.
"As a special scientific advisor to the World Health Organisation, the United Nations and the Iraqi Ministry of Health, Dr Hardan is the man who documented the effects of depleted uranium in Iraq between 1991 and 2002.
"But this year's invasion and occupation has doubled his workload ...
"Leukaemia has already become the most common type of cancer in Iraq among all age groups, but is most prevalent in the under-15s. It has increased way above the percentage of population growth in every single province of Iraq without exception.
"Women as young as 35 are developing breast cancer. Sterility amongst men has increased ten-fold.
"But by far the most devastating effect is on unborn children. Nothing can prepare anyone for the sight of hundreds of preserved foetuses –- barely human in appearance."
Full text HERE
by Lawrence Smallman
"There are weapons of mass destruction all over Iraq and they were used this year. Iraqi children continue to find them every day.
"They have ruined the lives of just under 300,000 people during the last decade -- and numbers will increase.
"The reason is simple. Two hundred tonnes of radioactive material were fired by invading US forces into buildings, homes, streets and gardens all over Baghdad.
"The material in question is depleted uranium (DU). Left over after natural uranium has been enriched, DU is 1.7 times denser than lead -- effective in penetrating armoured objects such as tanks.
"After a DU-coated shell strikes, it goes straight through before exploding into a burning vapour which turns to dust.
"'Depleted uranium has a half life of 4.7 billion years –- that means thousands upon thousands of Iraqi children will suffer for tens of thousands of years to come. This is what I call terrorism,' says Dr Ahmad Hardan.
"As a special scientific advisor to the World Health Organisation, the United Nations and the Iraqi Ministry of Health, Dr Hardan is the man who documented the effects of depleted uranium in Iraq between 1991 and 2002.
"But this year's invasion and occupation has doubled his workload ...
"Leukaemia has already become the most common type of cancer in Iraq among all age groups, but is most prevalent in the under-15s. It has increased way above the percentage of population growth in every single province of Iraq without exception.
"Women as young as 35 are developing breast cancer. Sterility amongst men has increased ten-fold.
"But by far the most devastating effect is on unborn children. Nothing can prepare anyone for the sight of hundreds of preserved foetuses –- barely human in appearance."
Full text HERE
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