In October, Durakovic spoke on al Jazeera television, claiming that the amount of DU/uranium used in Afghanistan far exceeded that of past conflicts. He also warned that if the scale of the attacks in Afghanistan was matched or exceeded in a forthcoming war in Iraq, then the consequences would be of appalling proportions for both civilians and military forces alike.
This scenario has substance, if the US$393 billion defence authorisation bill that Congress approved recently is taken into account. More than US$15 million was assigned to modifying bunker busters bombs to nuclear capable, quite apart from uranium being added to conventional and bunker buster systems. Money was also invested in other weapons of mass destruction, including thermobaric and electromagnetic weapons.
The anti-war movement must oppose radiological and other weapons, as well as research and access to the source materials. Many of us have seen the heart-wrenching pictures of deformity and death in Iraq, and know of the growing cancer wards in Bosnia and Kosovo, not to mention the 80,000 American, 15,000
Canadian and thousands of British, Australian, French and other troops who are suffering a painful existence from Gulf War Syndrome - plus the growing number
suffering from a Balkans equivalent.
Davey Garland
Davey Garland is a co-ordinator of the British-based Pandora DU Research Project. Please visit the Pandora web site at: http://www.pandoraproject.org
The Durakovic report is at the UMRC web site: http://www.umrc.net/whatsNew.asp
Dai Williams' report, "Mystery Metal in Afghanistan", is at: http://www.eoslifework.co.uk/du2012.htm
originally published in Green Left Weekly, December 11, 2002.
Please visit the Green Left Weekly home page: http://www.greenleft.org.au
Please also see: "Perpetual Death From America"
By Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, MA, PhD
Afghan-American Freelance Academic
http://www.rense.com/general35/perp.htm
This scenario has substance, if the US$393 billion defence authorisation bill that Congress approved recently is taken into account. More than US$15 million was assigned to modifying bunker busters bombs to nuclear capable, quite apart from uranium being added to conventional and bunker buster systems. Money was also invested in other weapons of mass destruction, including thermobaric and electromagnetic weapons.
The anti-war movement must oppose radiological and other weapons, as well as research and access to the source materials. Many of us have seen the heart-wrenching pictures of deformity and death in Iraq, and know of the growing cancer wards in Bosnia and Kosovo, not to mention the 80,000 American, 15,000
Canadian and thousands of British, Australian, French and other troops who are suffering a painful existence from Gulf War Syndrome - plus the growing number
suffering from a Balkans equivalent.
Davey Garland
Davey Garland is a co-ordinator of the British-based Pandora DU Research Project. Please visit the Pandora web site at: http://www.pandoraproject.org
The Durakovic report is at the UMRC web site: http://www.umrc.net/whatsNew.asp
Dai Williams' report, "Mystery Metal in Afghanistan", is at: http://www.eoslifework.co.uk/du2012.htm
originally published in Green Left Weekly, December 11, 2002.
Please visit the Green Left Weekly home page: http://www.greenleft.org.au
Please also see: "Perpetual Death From America"
By Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, MA, PhD
Afghan-American Freelance Academic
http://www.rense.com/general35/perp.htm