[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL, URANIUM: "Depleted Uranium Contamination is Still Spreading in Iraq"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Depleted Uranium Contamination is Still Spreading in Iraq

By Mike Ludwig
Truth-ut
March 23, 2013
  


In 2012, European researchers visited a scrap metal site in Al Zubayr, an area near Basrah in southern Iraq. A local police officer told them that the site had at one time held military scrap metal from the bloody battles waged during the American invasion. A local guard told the researchers that children had been seen playing on the scrap during that time, and both adults and children had worked disassembling the military leftovers. At one point, the guard said, members of an international organization with equipment and white suits showed up, told guards that the site was very dangerous and "quickly ran off."

The researchers, working with the Dutch peace group IKV Pax Christi, with funding from the Norwegian government, visited areas in Iraq where depleted uranium contamination had been reported by Iraqis and international observers. Depleted uranium is a chemically toxic and radioactive heavy metal produced as a waste product of the nuclear power industry. Depleted uranium was used in armor-piercing munitions fired by US and Coalition forces during both the 2003 invasion and the 1991 Gulf war in Iraq.

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For the entire article, see
http://truth-out.org/news/item/15168-depleted-uranium-contamination-is-still-spreading-in-iraq

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Lenny Siegel
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