From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Thu, 19 Mar 1998 07:34:32 -0700 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | URANIUM LINKED TO IRAQI ILLNESSES |
The San Jose Mercury News (Thursday, March 19, 1998) ran a front page story, "Iraqi Cancers May Hold Clue to Gulf-War Illnesses." Iraqi government doctors have reported a threefold increase in birth defects and cancer among Iraqi civilians in southern Iraq. Supporting those studies, "doctors at three Iraqi hospitals cited anecdotal site-specific evidence to support the government's conclusions." "One of the prime suspects is depleted uranium, a low-level radioactive metal first used in artillery rounds during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Upon impact, the depleted uranium in munitions ignites and burns, releasing toxic dust that could drift many miles from desert battlefields to populated areas." It will be some time before the causes of illnesses among Iraqis and U.S. Gulf War veterans are fully recognized. Both the U.S. and Iraqi governments have political reasons to blame substances released by the other side. The article is available on the Web at http://www.mercurycenter.com/front/ , but you may need to subscribe to download it. (Maybe someone else knows another Website carrying the same Kinght-Ridder story.) As I wrote back in 1991, uranium weapons may be the "Agent Orange of the 1990s." Lenny Lenny Siegel Director, SFSU CAREER/PRO (and Pacific Studies Center) c/o PSC, 222B View St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/968-1126 lsiegel@cpeo.org | |
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