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Pentagon Poison: The Great Radioactive Ammo Cover-Up - http://www.gulfweb.org/doc_show.cfm?ID=493
Rounds made of depleted uranium have exposed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of G.I.s to radiation without warning -- here's evidence the army knew the danger. [The Nation Online] |
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Environmental Ruin in Iraq - http://iraqaction.org/oldsite/environment.html
Iraq Action Coalition information on the effects of the sanctions and military war on the environment. Provides information on depleted uranium. |
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UNHCR: Human Rights and Toxics: Depleted Uranium and the Gulf War - http://www.webcom.com/hrin/parker/c97-5w.html
Official evidence from the International Educational Development/Humanitarian Law Project that the US did use Depleted Uranium in the gulf war and that "Scientific studies indicate if as much as one small particle (<5 microns in diameter) enters the lungs, the lungs and surrounding tissue will be exposed to 270 times the radiation permitted for workers in the radiation industry." |
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Does Iraq's Depleted Uranium Pose a Health Risk? - http://www.ex-parrot.com/casi/discuss/1999/246.html
Key points of a literature review. The Lancet. |
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Gulf War Shells Could be Causing Children's Cancers - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/70029.stm
An increase in rates of cancer in children born in Iraq has led to fears that weapons used in the Gulf War may in some way be responsible. BBC News. |