the nuclear guardianship project We are making an inspirational
film (details on the film follow) and are seeking your
support.
Specifically we are in need of
video clips of the generation born with congenital
anomalies due to their parents exposure to
radioactivity. These might be the so-called 'bunch of
grapes' babies,of theGulf War, the 'jellyfish' babies of
the Marshall Islands or the post-Chernobyl children.
If you know of a source or can
direct me to someone who has been engaged in related
research and documentation, could you send the contact on
to me?
Any help in procuring these
clips would be greatly appreciated. We and the yet to be
born generations thank you in advance.
Wendy
Oser woser@comcast 510-559-8910
Nuclear
Guardianship: a trip to the future
BACKGROUND
The
film is being produced by The Nuclear Guardianship to
inspire and inform the public of a possible future in
which we have successfully dealt with an overwhelmingly
difficult challenge --the responsible care of nuclear
materials.
The
Nuclear Guardianship Project is a citizens' educational
effort aimed at developing the political, technical and
moral understandings required to keep radioactive
materials from further contaminating the biosphere, in
order to protect present and future generations.
It is the intention
of the project to foster change in the prevailing
cultural belief that we face problems too complex and
difficult to solve on a long-term basis.
THE FILMMAKERS
The
script is based on a multimedia presentation created by
Francis Harwood, cultural anthropologist and developed by
Joanna Macy, author, teacher, deep ecologist, practicing
Buddhist; and Wendy Oser, editor of the Nuclear
Guardianship Forum and filmmaker; William Weber,
filmmaker, is editing the film, with Wendy Oser
producing, and Joanna Macy as consultant. A 26 minute
broadcast quality video will be digitally produced in
digital video on Avid.
The
video evokes deep time, deep caring that life
continue, and recognition that we humans have the
resources required to endure. The audience
identifies with people in the near future (200 years or
seven generations from now) and reviews with them how
people living in the time of nuclear terror (20 and 21st
Centuries) overcame their fear, hopelessness and denial.
As a result the audience experiences the profound
gratitude of the beings of the future for making life
possible for them.
THE FILM
The first part of the
film recites The Great Remembering of the Times of
Nuclear Peril with historical footage in a slightly
dream-like way. The second half looks at cultural
images from throughout human history that were developed
as a means of keeping alive knowledge essential for the
continuation of life.
Filmmaking is taking
place in San Francisco, California, and will to be
completed in 2006. The film will be shown on public
access cable channels, offered to television broadcast,
cable and satellite. It will be distributed to activist
communities throughout the world working on issues not
expected to be resolved in our own lifetimes.
This may be the first
video to deal with environmental activism with a
spiritual grounding in a deep-time perspective. We hope
that the project will contribute to a shift in our
cultures current limitations on creating a viable
future.
FINANCES
The Nuclear
Guardianship Project has an initial bequest of $25,000,
which will be used for out-of-pocket expenses. All the
filmmakers are donating their time and the use of their
equipment. This we hope to use your resources as
donations, or very low cost.
For further information on
Nuclear Guardianship see
Nuclear Guardianship Project: www.nonukes.org
Joanna Macy: www.joannamacy.net
Israel
Buried 80 Tons of Nuclear Waste in the Palestinian
Territories, Says Minister of Health
GAZA, Palestine,
May 16, 2005 (IPC) - -
The Minister of
Health, Dr. Thohni Al Wuheidi, asserted that the Israeli
authorities have buried 80 tons of Nuclear waste near the
city of Nablus.
The Minister added
that the waste were buried 300 meters away from Nablus,
while the burial of more nuclear waste was still being
completed around the rest of Gaza Strip and West Bank
cities, especially those with high population intensity
such as Nablus, Hebron and Gaza.
Dr. Al Wuheidi
noted that this would affect the environment, and pollute
the aquifer water with radiation, confirming previous
warnings of Dr. Yousef Abu Safiyya, the head of
Environment Quality Authority, who condemned the Israeli
violations of the environment in the occupied Palestinian
territories (oPt).
Dr. Abu Safiyya
said in a press conference at IPC on April 10 that these
violations contradict the international humanitarian law
and the global environment treaties, considering the
establishment of a waste landfill near Nablus the most
dangerous violation against the Palestinian people.
He called on the UN
agencies interested in environment to halt the Israeli
transgressions, which endanger both the human beings and
natural resources.
Abu Safiyya added,
during the conference, that the issue of the Israeli
environmental violations were more dangerous than the
Apartheid Wall, explaining that the Wall can be torn down
at any moment, while the environment and natural
resources take hundreds or thousands of years to be
mended.
He warned that
since the Israeli occupation of 1967, there has been a
systematic destruction of the Palestinian life and the
possibility of living, in order to pressure Palestinians
to abandon their lands. "Palestinians are killed
directly, by bullets, rockets and shelling, but they are
also killed silently and slowly for dozens of years now,
through the pollution of their water sources, soil,
plants and food," Abu Safiyya stressed.
A detailed survey
of military use of depleted uranium and of its
depositories in various US States by an American
newspaper The Sierra Times and a brave woman journalist:
Death
By Slow Burn -
How America Nukes Its Own Troops
What 'Support Our Troops' Really Means
By Amy
Worthington - The Idaho Observer
On March 30,
an AP photo featured an American pro-war activist holding
a sign: "Nuke the evil scum, it worked in
1945!" That's exactly what George Bush has done.
America's mega-billion dollar war in Iraq has been indeed
a NUCLEAR WAR.
Bush-Cheney have delivered upon 17 million Iraqis tons of
depleted uranium (DU) weapons, a "liberation"
gift that will keep on giving. Depleted uranium is a
component of toxic nuclear waste, usually stored at
secure sites. Handlers need radiation protection gear.
Over a decade ago, war-makers decided to incorporate this
lethal waste into much of the Pentagon's weaponry. Navy
ships carrying Phalanx rapid fire guns are capable of
firing thousands of DU rounds per minute.(1) Tomahawk
missiles launched from U.S. ships and subs are
DU-tipped.(2) The M1 Abrams tanks are armored with DU.(3)
These and British Challenger II tanks are tightly packed
with DU shells, which continually irradiate troops in or
near them.(4) The A-10 "tank buster" aircraft
fires DU shells at machines and people on the
battlefield.(5)
DU munitions are classified by a United Nations
resolution as illegal weapons of mass destruction. Their
use breaches all international laws, treaties and
conventions forbidding poisoned weapons calculated to
cause unnecessary suffering.
Ironically, support for our troops will extend well
beyond the war in Iraq. Americans will be supporting Gulf
War II veterans for years as they slowly and painfully
succumb to radiation poisoning. U.S and British troops
deployed to the area are the walking dead. Humans and
animals, friends and foes in the fallout zone are
destined to a long downhill spiral of chronic illness and
disability. Kidney dysfunction, lung damage, bloody
stools, extreme fatigue, joint pain, unsteady gait,
memory loss and rashes and, ultimately, cancer and
premature death await those exposed to DU.
Award-winning journalist Will Thomas wrote: "As the
last Gulf conflict so savagely demonstrated, GI immune
systems reeling from multiple doses of experimental
vaccines offer little defense against further exposure to
chemical weapons, industrial toxins, stress, caffeine,
insect repellent and radiation leftover from the last
war. This is a war even the victors will lose."(6)
When a DU shell is fired, it ignites upon impact.
Uranium, plus traces of plutonium and americium, vaporize
into tiny, ceramic particles of radioactive dust. Once
inhaled, uranium oxides lodge in the body and emit
radiation indefinitely. A single particle of DU lodged in
a lymph node can devastate the entire immune system
according to British radiation expert Roger Coghill.(7)
The Royal Society of England published data showing that
battlefield soldiers who inhale or swallow high levels of
DU can suffer kidney failure within days.(8) Any soldier
now in Iraq who has not inhaled lethal radioactive dust
is not breathing. In the first two weeks of combat, 700
Tomahawks, at a cost of $1.3 million each, blasted Iraqi
real estate into radioactive mushroom clouds.(9) Millions
of DU tank rounds liter the terrain. Cleanup is
impossible because there is no place on the planet to put
so much contaminated debris.
Bush Sr.'s Gulf War I was also a nuclear war. 320 tons of
depleted uranium were used against Iraq in 1991.(10) A
1998 report by the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances
confirms that inhaling DU causes symptoms identical to
those claimed by many sick vets with Gulf War
Syndrome.(11) The Gulf War Veterans Association reports
that at least 300,000 Gulf War I vets have now developed
incapacitating illnesses.(12) To date, 209,000 vets have
filed claims for disability benefits based on
service-connected injuries and illnesses from combat in
that war.(13)
Dr. Asaf Durakovic, a professor of nuclear medicine at
Georgetown University, is a former army medical expert.
He told nuclear scientists in Paris last year that tens
of thousands of sick British and American soldiers are
now dying from radiation they encountered during Gulf War
I. He found that 62 percent of sick vets tested have
uranium isotopes in their organs, bones, brains and
urine.(14) Laboratories in Switzerland and Finland
corroborated his findings.
In other studies, some sick vets were found to be
expressing uranium in even their semen. Their sexual
partners often complained of a burning sensation during
intercourse, followed by their own debilitating
illnesses.(15)
Nothing compares to the astronomical cancer rates and
birth defects suffered by the Iraqi people who have
endured vicious nuclear chastisement for years.(16) U.S.
air attacks against Iraq since 1993 have undoubtedly
employed nuclear munitions. Pictures of grotesquely
deformed Iraqi infants born since 1991 are
overwhelming.(17) Like those born to Gulf War I vets,
many babies born to troops now in Iraq will also be
afflicted with hideous deformities, neurological damage
and/or blood and respiratory disorders.(18)
As an Army health physicist, Dr. Doug Rokke was
dispatched to the Middle East to salvage DU-contaminated
tanks after Gulf War I. His Geiger counters revealed that
the war zones of Iraq and Kuwait were contaminated with
up to 300 millirems an hour in beta and gamma radiation
plus thousands to millions of counts per minute in alpha
radiation. Rokke recently told the media: "The whole
area is still trashed. It is hotter than heck over there
still. This stuff doesn't go away."(19)
DU remains "hot" for 4.5 billion years.
Radiation expert Dr. Helen Caldicott confirms that the
dust-laden winds of DU-contaminated war zones "will
remain effectively radioactive for the rest of
time."(20) The murderous dust storms which ensnared
coalition troops during the first few days of the current
invasion are sure to have significant health
consequences.
Rokke and his cleanup team were issued only flimsy dust
masks for their dangerous work. Of the 100 people on
Rokke's decontamination team, 30 have already
"dropped dead." Rokke himself is ill with
radiation damage to lungs and kidneys. He has brain
lesions, skin pustules, chronic fatigue, continual
wheezing and painful fibromyalgia. Rokke warns that
anyone exposed to DU should have adequate respiratory
protection and special coveralls to protect their
clothing because, he says, you can't get uranium
particles off your clothing.
The U.S. military insists that DU on the battlefield is
not a problem. Colonel James Naughton of the U.S. Army
Material Command recently told the BBC that complaints
about DU "had no medical basis."(21) The
military's own documents belie this. A 1993 Pentagon
document warned that "when soldiers inhale or ingest
DU dust they incur a potential increase in cancer
risk."(22) A U.S. Army training manual requires
anyone who comes within 25 meters of DU-contaminated
equipment to wear respiratory and skin protection.(23)
The U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute admitted:
"If DU enters the body, it has the potential to
generate significant medical consequences."(24) The
Institute also stated that, if the troops were to realize
what they had been exposed to, "the financial
implications of long-term disability payments and
healthcare costs would be excessive."(25) For
pragmatic reasons, DOD chooses to lie and deny.
Dr. Rokke confirms that the Pentagon lies about DU
dangers and is criminally negligent for neglecting
medical attention needed by DU-contaminated vets. He
predicts that the numbers of American troops to be
sickened by DU from Gulf War II will be staggering.(26)
As they gradually sicken and suffer a slow burn to their
graves, the Pentagon will, as it did after Gulf War I,
deny that their misery and death is a result of their
tour in Iraq.
Dr. Rokke's candor has cost him his career. Likewise, Dr.
Durakovic's radiation studies on Gulf War I vets were not
popular with U.S. officials. Dr. Durakovic was reportedly
told his life was in danger if he continued his research.
He left the U.S. to continue his research abroad.(27)
Naive young coalition soldiers now in Iraq are likely
unaware of how deadly their battlefield environment is.
Gulf War I troops were kept in ignorance. Soldiers
handled DU fragments and some wore these lethal nuggets
around their necks. A DU projectile emits more radiation
in five hours than allowed in an entire year under
civilian radiation exposure standards. "We didn't
know any better," Kris Kornkven told Nation
magazine. "We didn't find out until long after we
were home that there even was such a thing as
DU."(28)
George Bush's ongoing war in Afghanistan is also a
nuclear war. Shortly after 9-11, the U.S. announced it
would stockpile tactical nuclear weapons including small
neutron bombs, nuclear mines and shells suited to
commando warfare in Afghanistan.(29) In late September,
2001, Bush and Russian president Vladimir Putin agreed
that the U.S. would use tactical nuclear weapons in
Afghanistan while Putin would employ nuclear weapons
against the Chechnyans.(30)
Describing the Pentagon's B-61-11 burrowing nuke bomb,
George Smith writes in the Village Voice: "Built ram
tough with a heavy metal casing for smashing through the
earth and concrete, the B-61 explodes with the force of
an estimated 340,000 tons of TNT. It is lots of bang for
the buck, literally two apocalypse bombs in one, a
boosted plutonium firecracker called the primary and a
heavy hydrogen secondary for that good old-fashioned
H-bomb fireball."(31)
Drought-stricken Afghanistan's underground water supply
is now contaminated by these nuclear weapons.(32) Experts
with the Uranium Medical Research Center report that
urine samples of Afghanis show the highest level of
uranium ever recorded in a civilian population. Afghani
soldiers and civilians are reported to have died after
suffering intractable vomiting, severe respiratory
problems, internal bleeding and other symptoms consistent
with radiation poisoning. Dead birds still perched in
trees are found partially melted with blood oozing from
their mouths.(33)
Afghanistan's new president, Hamid Karzai, is a puppet
installed by Washington. Under the protection of American
soldiers, Karzai's regime is setting a new record for
opium production. Both UN and U.S. reports confirm that
the huge Afghani opium harvest of 2002 makes Afghanistan
the world's leading opium producer.(34) Thanks to nuclear
weapons, Afghanistan is now safe for the Bush-Cheney
narcotics industry.(35) ABC News asserts that keeping the
"peace" in Afghanistan will require decades of
allied occupation.(36) For years to come,
"peacekeepers" will be eating, drinking and
breathing the "hot" carcinogenic pollution they
have helped the Pentagon inflict upon that nation for
organized crime.
As governor of Arkansas during the Iran-Contra era, Bill
Clinton laundered $multi-millions in cocaine profits for
then vice-president George Bush Sr.(37) As a partner in
the Bush family's notorious crime machine, President
Clinton committed U.S. troops to NATO's campaign in the
Balkans, a prime heroin production and trans-shipment
area. DOD's campaign to control and reorganize the drug
trade there for the Bush mafia was yet another nuclear
project.
For years, the U.S. and NATO fired DU missiles, bullets
and shells across the Balkans, nuking the peoples of
Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo. As DU munitions were slammed
into chemical plants, the environment became hideously
toxic, also endangering the peoples of Albania,
Macedonia, Greece, Italy, Austria and Hungary. By 1999,
UN investigators reported that an estimated 12 tons of DU
had caused irreparable damage to the Yugoslavian
environment, with agriculture, livestock and air water,
and public health all profoundly damaged.(38)
Scientists confirm that citizens of the Balkans are
excreting uranium in their urine.39 In 2001, a
Yugoslavian pathologist reported that hundreds of
Bosnians have died of cancer from NATO's DU
bombardment.(40) Many NATO peacekeepers in the Balkans
now suffer ill health. Their leukemias, cancers and other
maladies are dubbed the "Balkans Syndrome."
Richard Coghill predicts that DU weapons used in Balkans
campaign will result in at least 10,000 cases of fatal
cancer.(41)
U.S. citizens at home are also paying a heavy price for
criminal militarism gone mad. DOD is a pollution monster.
The General Accounting Office (GAO) found 9,181 dangerous
military sites in USA that will require $billions to
rehabilitate. The GAO reports that DOD has been both
slothful and deceitful in its clean-up obligations.(42)
The Pentagon is now pressing Congress to exempt it from
all environmental laws so that it may pollute and poison
free from liability.(43)
The Navy uses prime fishing grounds off the coast of
Washington state to test fire DU ammunition. In January,
Washington State Rep. Jim McDermott chastised the Navy:
"On one hand you have required soldiers to have DU
safety training and to wear protective gear when handling
DU...and submarines must stay clear of DU-contaminated
waters. These policies indicate there is cause for
concern....On the other hand the Department of Defense
has repeatedly denied that DU poses any danger
whatsoever. There has been no remorse about leaving tons
of DU equipment in the soil in foreign countries, and
there appears to be no remorse about leaving it in the
waters of your own country."(44)
DU has been used in military practice maneuvers in
Indiana, Florida, New Mexico, Massachusetts, Maryland and
Puerto Rico. After the Navy tested DU weaponry on the
Puerto Rican island of Vieques, one third of the island's
population developed serious illness. Many people show
high levels of uranium in their bodies. Hundreds have
filed a class action suit against the Navy for $100
million, claiming DU contamination has caused widespread
cancers.(45)
The Navy's Fallon Naval Air Station near Fallon, Nevada,
is a quagmire of 26 toxic waste sites. It is also a
target practice zone for DU bombs and missiles. Area
residents report bizarre illnesses, including 17 children
who have contracted leukemia within five years. A survey
of groundwater in the Fallon area showed nearly half of
area wells are contaminated with radioactive
materials.(46)
The materials for DU weaponry have been processed mainly
at three nuclear plants in Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee,
where workers handling uranium contaminated with
plutonium have suffered for decades with cancers and
debilitating maladies similar to Gulf War Syndrome.(47)
Emboldened by power-grabbing successes made possible by
his administration's devious 9-11 project, President Bush
asserts that the U.S. has the right to attack any nation
it deems a potential threat. He told West Point in 2002,
"If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we
will have waited too long."(48) Thus, it is certain
that Bush-Cheney future pre-emptive nuclear wars are
lined up like idling jets on a runway. Both Cheney's
Halliburton Corp. and the Bush family's Carlyle Group are
profiteers in U.S. defense contracts, so endless war is
just good business.(49)
The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon will
create special nuclear weapons for use on North Korea's
underground nuclear facilities.(50) Next August, U.S. war
makers will meet to consolidate plans for a new
generation of "mini," "micro" and
"tiny" nuclear bombs and bunker busters. These
will be added to the U.S. arsenal perhaps for use against
non-nuclear third-world nations such as Iran, Syria,
Lebanon.(51)
The solution? Americans must stop electing ruthless
criminals to rule this nation. We must convince fellow
citizens that villains like Saddam Hussein are made in
the U.S. as rationale for endless corporate war profits.
Saddam was placed in power by the CIA.(52) For years U.S.
government agencies, under auspices of George Bush Sr.,
supplied him with chemical and biological weapons.(53)
Our national nuclear laboratories, along with Unisys,
Dupont and Hewlett-Packard, sold Saddam materials for his
nuclear program.(54) Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton
in the late 90s when its subsidiaries signed $73 million
in new contracts to further supply Saddam.(55) The wicked
villain of Iraq was nurtured for decades as a cash-cow by
U.S. military-industrial piranhas.
If America truly supports its troops, it must stop
sending them into nuclear holocaust for the enrichment of
thugs. Time is running out. If the DU-maniacs at the
Pentagon and their coven of nuclear arms peddlers are not
harnessed, America will have no able-bodied fighting
forces left. All people of the earth will become grossly
ill, hideously deformed and short- lived. We must succeed
in the critical imperative to face reality and act
decisively. Should we fail, there will be no place to
hide from Bush-Cheney's merciless nuclear orgies yet to
come or from the inevitable nuclear retaliation these
orgies will surely breed.
Endnotes
1."DOD
Launches Depleted Uranium Training," Linda Kozaryn,
American Forces Press Service, 8-13-99.
2."Nukes of the Gulf War,"John Shirley,
Zess@aol.com. See this article in archives at
www.gulfwarvets.com.
3. BBC News, "US To Use Depleted Uranium,"
March 18, 2003; U.S. General Accounting Office, Operation
Desert Storm: "Early Performance Assessment of
Bradley and Abrams," 1-2-92.
4."Nukes of the Gulf War," op. cit.
5. Ibid.
6. "Invading Hiroshima," William Thomas,
2-4-2003, www.willthomas.net
7. "US Shells Leave Lethal Legacy," Toronto
Star, July 31, 1999; also "Radiation Tests for
Peacekeepers in the Balkans Exposed to Depleted
Uranium," www.telegraph.co.uk, 12-31-02.
8. "Depleted Uranium May Stop Kidneys In Days,"
Rob Edwards, New Scientist.com, 3-12-02; also
"Uranium Weapons Too Hot to Handle," Rob
Edwards, New Scientist.co.uk, 6-9-99.
9. "Navy Seeks Cash for More Tomahawks," David
Rennie in Washington, Telegraph Group Limited, 1-4-03,
news.telegraph.co.uk.
10. "Going Nuclear in Iraq--DU Cancers Mount
Daily," Ramzi Kysia, CounterPunch.org, 12-31-01.
11."Depleted Uranium Symptoms Match US Report As
Fears Spread," Peter Beaumont, The Observer (UK)
1-14-01, www.guardianlimited.co.uk.
12. "Gulf War Illnesses Affect 300,000 Vets,"
Ellen Tomson, Pioneer Press, www.pioneerplanet.com. See
also American Gulf War Veterans Association at
www.gulfwarvets.com.
13. "2 of Every 5 Gulf War Vets Are On Disability:
209,000 Make VA Claims," World Net Daily, 1-28-03,
WorldNetDaily.com.
14. "Research on Sick Gulf Vets Revisited, "New
York Times, 1-29-01; "Tests Show Gulf War Victims
Have Uranium Poisoning," Jonathon Carr-Brown and
Martin Meissonnier, The Sunday Times (UK) 9-3-02.
15. "Catastrophe: Ill Gulf Vets Contaminated
Partners With DU," The Halifax Herald Limited, Clare
Mellor, 2-09-01. This article is available in archives at
www.rense.com.
16. "Iraqi Cancer, Birth Defects Blamed on US
Depleted Uranium," Seattle Post- Intelligencer,
11-12-02; "US Depleted Uranium Yields Chamber of
Horrors in Southern Iraq, Andy Kershaw, The Independent
(London) 12-4-01.
17. "The Environmental and Human Health Impacts of
the Gulf War Region with Special References to
Iraq," Ross Mirkarimi, The Arms Control Research
Centre, May 1992. See also Gulf War Syndrome Birth
Defects in Iraq at
www.web-light.nl/VISIE/extremedeformities.html.
18. "The Tiny Victims of Desert Storm, Has Our
Country Abandoned Them?," Life Magazine, November
1995; "Birth Defects Killing Gulf War Babies,"
Los Angeles Times, 11-14-94; "Depleted Uranium, The
Lingering Poison," Alex Kirby, BBC News Online,
6-7-99.
19. "Depleted Uranium, A Killer Disaster,"
Travis Dunn, Disaster News.net, 12-29-02.
20. San Francisco Chronicle, 10-10-02.
21. "US To Use Depleted Uranium," BBC News,
3-18-03.
22. "Depleted Uranium Symptoms Match US Report As
Fears Spread," Peter Beaumont, The Observer (UK)
1-14-01.
23. "Iraqi Cancer, Birth Defects Blamed on US
Depleted Uranium," Seattle Post- Intelligencer,
11-12-02.
24. "US To Use Depleted Uranium," BBC News,
3-18-03.
25. US Army Environmental Policy Institute: Health and
Environmental Consequences of Depleted Uranium in the
U.S. Army, Technical Report, June 1995.
26. "Pentagon Depleted Uranium No Health Risk,"
Dr. Doug Rokke, 3-15-03; also "The Terrible, Tragic
Toll of Depleted Uranium," Address by Dr. Rokke
before congressional leaders in Washington,
D.C.,12-30-02; also "Gulf War Casualties," Dr.
Doug Rokke, www.traprockpeace.org. 9-30-02.
27."Tests Show Gulf War Victims Have Uranium
Poisoning," Sunday Times (UK), Jonathon Carr-Brown
and Martin Meissonnier, 9-3-00.
28. "The Pentagon's Radioactive Bullet: An
Investigative Report," Bill Mesler, The Nation,
5-28-99, see www.thenation.com/
issue/961021/1021mesl.htm.
29. "Tactical Nukes Deployed In Afghanistan,"
World Net Daily, 10-7-01. 30. Ibid.
31. "The B-61 Bomb,The Burrowing Nuke" George
Smith,VillageVoice.com 12-29-02.; also
"Bunker-busting US Tactical Nuclear Bombs, Nowhere
to Hide," Kennedy Grey, Wired.com, 10-9-01.
32."Perpetual Death From America," Mohammed
Daud Miraki, Afghan-American Interviews, 2-24-03; also
"Dying of Thirst," Fred Pearce, New Scientist,
11-17-2001.
33. Ibid.
34. "Afghanistan Displaces Myanmar as Top Heroin
Producer," Agence France-Presse, 3-01-03. This
article is at www.copvcia.com.;also "Opium Trade
Flourishing In the `New Afghanistan,'" Reuters,
3-3-03.
35. "The Bush-Cheney Drug Empire," Michael C.
Ruppert, Nexus Magazine, February-March 2000; The
Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug
Trade, Alfred W. McCoy, Lawrence Hill & Co., revised
edition due May 2003; Drugging of America, Rodney Stich,
Diablo Western Press, 1999; "Blood for Oil, Drugs
for Arms," Bob Djurdjevic, Truth In Media, April
2000, www.truthinmedia.org. 36. ABC News, February 27,
2003.
37. Compromised, Clinton Bush and the CIA, Terry Reed and
John Cummings, S.P.I. Books, 1994; The Clinton Chronicles
and The Mena Cover-up, Citizens for Honest Government,
1996; "The Crimes of Mena, Grey Money," Ozark
Gazette, 1995 (see www.copvcia.com.)
38. "Damage to Yugoslav Environment is Immense, Says
a UN Report," Bob Djurdjevic, 7-4-99,
truthinmedia.org. This report was submitted to the UN
Security Council on June 9, 1999; also, "New
Depleted Uranium Study Shows Clear Damage," BBC
News,8-28-99; also "NATO Issued Warning About Toxic
Ammo," Associated Press, 01-08-01.
39. CounterPunch.org, 12-28-01.
40. "Hundreds Died of Cancer After DU
Bombing--Doctor," Reuters, 1-13-01.
41."Depleted Uranium Threatens Balkan Cancer
Epidemic," BBC News, 7-30-99.
42. "Many Defense Sites Still Hazardous,"
Associated Press, 9-24-02; also Old US Weapons Called
Hidden Danger, Los Angeles Times, 11-25-02.
43. "Pentagon Seeks Freedom to Pollute Land, Air and
Sea," Andrew Gumbel in L.A., 3-13-03, Independent
Digital (UK) Ltd.
44. "Radioactive DU Ammo Is Tested in Fish
Areas," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1-11-03; Letter
from Rep. McDermott to Department of the Navy: see
"Navy Fired DU Rounds Into Waters Off Coast of
Washington," 1-20-03, rense.com.
45."Cancer Rates Soar From US Military Use of DU On
`Enchanted Island,'" www.telegraph.co.uk, 2-5-01;
also "Navy Shells With Depleted Uranium Fired in
Puerto Rico," Fox News Online, 5-28-99.
46. "The Fallon, NV Cancer Cluster And a US Navy
Bombing," Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch.org,
8-10-02.
47. "DU Shells Are Made of A Potentially Lethal
Cocktail of Nuclear Waste," Jonathon Carr-Brown,
www.sunday-times.co.uk, 1-22-01.
48. "Preventative War Sets Perilous Precedent,"
Helen Thomas, Hearst Newspapers, 3-20-03.
49. PIGS at the Trough, Arriana Huffington, Random House,
2003 (New York Times best seller.); also "The Best
Enemies Money Can Buy, From Hitler to Saddam Hussein to
Osama bin Laden Insider Connections and the Bush Family's
Partnership With Killers of Americans;" Mike
Ruppert, From the Wilderness,10-10-01; also "Bush
Sr.'s Carlyle Group Gets Fat on War and Conflict,"
Jamie Doward, The Observer (UK), 3-25-03; also
"Halliburton Wins Contract for Iraq Oil
Firefighting, Reuters, 3-7-03; also "Cashing
In-Fortunes in Profits Await Bush Circle After Iraq War,
Andrew Gumbel, The Independent (London) 9-15-02; also
"War Could Be Big Business for Halliburton,"
Reuters, 3-23-03.
50. "Pentagon Seeks a Nuclear Digger,"
Washington Post, March 10, 2003.
51. "Remember: Bush Planed Iraq War Before Taking
Office," Neil Mackay, The Sunday Herald (UK)
3-27-03; also "US Mini-Nukes Alarm Scientists,"
The Guardian (UK) 4-18-01; also "US Nuclear
First-Strike Plan--It Keeps Getting Scarier, Jeffrey
Steinberg, Executive Intelligence Review, 2-24-03.
52. Wall Street Journal, 8-16-90: The CIA supported the
Baath Party and installed Hussein as Iraqi dictator in
1968.
53. "United States Dual-Use Exports to Iraq and
Their Impact on the Health of Persian Gulf War
Veterans," Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and
Urban Affairs, 1992, 1994; "U.S. Had Key Role in
Iraq Buildup," Washington Post, 12-30-02.
54. "US Government, 24 US Corps Illegally Helped
Iraq Build Its WMD," Hugh Williamson in Berlin,
Financial Times, 12-19-02; "Full List of US Weapons
Suppliers To Iraq," Anu de Monterice,
coachanu@earthlink.net, 12-19-02.
55. Huffington, op. cit.
Amy Worthington is a reporter for The Idaho Observer
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