Depleted Uranium News

Friday, January 27, 2006 DU News #1 This is the first of the DU News, these issues. 1. Legislation is a big part of what has happened in the past year. Ward Reilly Reports 2. Soldiers exposed to DU todays story on Gerard Matthew by Eric Prideaux 3. People Working to expose DU Today we introduce Bob Nichols "DU Scandal" 4. Statistics US Soldiers sick from 1991 5. Stories of International Importance DU Fails the point test, Karen Parker 1. Legislation From Ward Reilly, wardpeace@hotmail.com who was vital in getting legislation passed in Louisiana in 2005---http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060115/APC0101/601150570/1004 A public hearing was held Tuesday on a bill that would provide National Guard soldiers with safety and training information on depleted ranium contamination. The Assembly Committee on Veterans Affairs heard testimony from the bill's author, Rep. Thomas Nelson, D-Kaukauna, who is calling for a"comprehensive approach" to awareness, screening and assistance regarding contamination from munitions in military conflict. Depleted uranium is used inarmor-piercing munitions and some tank armor. "Our National Guard soldiers have a right to know about the dangers of DU (depleted uranium) contamination before they are mobilized and have access to information, screening, and treatment when they come home," said Nelson. Nelson said recent evidence has shown that military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan have been affected "biogenetically" from exposure to thedetonation of depleted uranium and resulting contamination. The bill has support from the departments of Military Affairs and Veterans Affairs, and from various veterans' organizations. 2. Exposed Soldiers BATTLEFIELD RADIATION: DU Vet: 'My Days Are Numbered' By ERIC PRIDEAUX Staff Writer Japan Times Gerard Matthew has broad shoulders and beefy hands. He's built like abear. Yet as sturdy as this 31-year-old may look, he is a very sick man.Matthew suffers, for example, from facial swelling, double and triplevision, muscle weakness, bouts of extreme anger that sometimes cause him to lash out at his wife, erectile dysfunction and, most serious of all, a tumor in the pituitary gland at the base of his brain."And these are just the big ones," he told the audience at the ForeignCorrespondents' Club Japan in Tokyo earlier this month.At home in New York, he said, he's got "a pharmacy" of medication -- and he worries both for himself and his family that his "days are numbered."All the more reason to speak at this media venue now, before things get worse. Full article: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20051120x1.htm 3. Introducing Bob Nichols. Project Censored Award Winner. His latest article -- Mushrooming depleted uranium (DU) scandal Heads roll at Veterans Administration Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter charged Monday that the reason Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi stepped down earlier this month was the growing scandal surrounding the use of uranium munitions in the Iraq War.Writing in Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter No. 169, Arthur N. Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, stated, "The real reason for Mr. Principi's departure was really never given, however a special report published by eminent scientist Leuren Moret naming depleted uranium as the definitive cause of the 'Gulf War Syndrome' has fed a growing scandal about the continued use of uranium munitions by the US Military." Bernklau continued, "This malady (from uranium munitions), that thousands of our military have suffered and died from, has finally been identified as the cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing. The terrible truth is now being revealed." full article at http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?text=viewArticle&code=NIC20060121&articleId=1771 4. Of the 696,778 troops who served during the recognized conflict phase (1990-1991) of the Gulf War, at least 206,861 have applied for VA medical benefits. As of May 2002, 159,238 veterans have been awarded service-connected disability by the Department of Veterans Affairs for health effects collectively known as the Gulf War Syndrome. 5. International Lawyer Karen Parker makes it very clear that America is Breaking the Law Parker, who first raised the DU issue in the United Nations in 1996, contends that DU "violates the existing law and customs of war." Parker States there are four rules derived from all of humanitarian law regarding weapons: - Weapons may only be used in the legal field of battle, defined as legal military targets of the enemy in war. Weapons may not have an adverse effect off the legal field of battle. - Weapons can only be used for the duration of an armed conflict. A weapon that is used or continues to act after the war is over violates this criterion. -Weapons may not be unduly inhumane. -Weapons may not have an unduly negative effect on the natural environment. "Depleted uranium fails all four of these rules," Parker said last week. for complete article: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1112-01.htm Support DU News, purchase a copy of award winning Power Hour Productions/William Lewis' Beyond Treason. http://www.denniskyne.com/beyondtreason.htm [Brought to you by HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]

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