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Thursday, May 15, 2003

 
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'"After we shoot something with DU, we're not supposed to go around it, due to the fact that it could cause cancer," says a sergeant in Baghdad from New York, assigned to a Bradley, who asked not to be further identified.'

'"We don't know the effects of what it could do," says the sergeant. "If one of our vehicles burnt with a DU round inside, or an ammo truck, we wouldn't go near it, even if it had important documents inside. We play it safe."'

'Six American vehicles struck with DU "friendly fire" in 1991 were deemed to be too contaminated to take home, and were buried in Saudi Arabia. Of 16 more brought back to a purpose-built facility in South Carolina, six had to be buried in a low-level radioactive waste dump.'


The Christian Science Monitor is reporting (via Common Dreams) that several randomly sampled sites in Iraq where spent depleted uranium rounds are lying around are producing radiation at 1,000 times above normal background radiation levels.

Andrew 9:39 AM : |

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