Dep. Uranium Measured in British Atmosphere from Battlefields in ME

[Jcrowley]

The Queen's Death Star

Depleted Uranium Measured in British Atmosphere from
Battlefields in the Middle East 

"Did the use of Uranium weapons in Gulf War II result in contamination of Europe? Evidence from the measurements of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), Aldermaston, Berkshire, UK," reported the Sunday Times Online (February 19, 2006) in a shocking scientific study authored by British scientists Dr. Chris Busby and Saoirse Morgan.

The highest levels of depleted uranium ever measured in the atmosphere in Britain, were transported on air currents from the Middle East and Central Asia; of special significance were those from the Tora Bora bombing in Afghanistan in 2001, and the "Shock & Awe" bombing during Gulf War II in Iraq in 2003.

Out of concern for the public, the official British government air monitoring facility, known as the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), at Aldermaston, was established years ago to measure radioactive emissions from British nuclear power plants and atomic weapons facilities. The British government facility (AWE) was taken over 3 years ago by Halliburton, which refused at first to release air monitoring data to Dr. Busby, as required by law.

An international expert on low level radiation, Busby serves as an official advisor on several British government committees, and co-authored an independent report on low level radiation with 45 scientists, the European Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR), for the European Parliament. He was able to get Aldermaston air monitoring data from Halliburton /AWE by filing a Freedom of Information request using a new British law which became effective January 1, 2005; but the data for 2003 was missing. He obtained the 2003 data from the Defence Procurement Agency.

http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2006/DU-Europe-Moret26feb06.htm

[cyberpj]

1. The British government facility (AWE) was taken over by Halliburton

The British government facility (AWE) was taken over 3 years ago by Halliburton, which refused at first to release air monitoring data to Dr. Busby, as required by law.

No surprises there.

[sam sarrha]

2. consider Iraq's problems with 2000 tons of DU all over the country, LINK>

http://www.desertconcerns.org/duiraq.html

and google: 'extreme birth defects Iraq' some of the photos are disturbing.

[sam sarrha]

3. Depleted Uranium is a cheap way to dump Nuclear waste in 3rd world coun

country, some minor campaign contributions and you can save millions and maybe make billions dumping radio active waste somewhere else..

the real problem with DU is its EXTREME HEAVY METAL TOXICITY.. not so much it radio activity.

the opposition will aways bring up it lack of radioactivity.. it is its toxicity, causing Cancer and birth defects. google, extreme birth defects depleted uranium

[Igel]

4. I'd like to see this updated.

In February when it was originally posted, it was pointed out that there were some severe flaws with the study. Severe, to the point of making the conclusions tenable only if you looked at their restricted dataset; if you pondered what must be going on outside the area they studied, you found that there was no information. They didn't make the least effort to falsify their own results or deal with potential objections, or even consider other possibilities. Shoddy research. Or advocacy. The latter usually leads to the former.