WHO, IRAQ/AFGHANISTAN and Depleted Uranium (SK???)

[Oscar]

DU - Original May 9.06 article, Mr. Breitkreuz's August.07 letter to Mr. MacKay/Mr. MacKay's Sept.07 reply

----- Original Message -----
From: Elaine Hughes
To: SK Premier Calvert ; Prime Minister Harper ; Breitkreuz, G. MP ; Fed. DND Min. MacKay

Cc: Wall, B. Sask Party ; Toxic Nation ; Staples, Steven ; SK Tourism ; SK Party Caucus ; SK NDP Caucus ; Sierra Club - US ; Sierra Club - Can. ; Sask. Wildlife Fed. ; Sask Environmental Society ; Safe Drinking Water Foundation ; Pembina Institute ; Parkland Institute ; New International ; NERPA ; NBEN ; Nature Sask ; Nature Canada ; McDonaugh, A. NDP ; May, E. GPC ; Karwaki,D.SK Lib. ; Julian, P. MP ; Joan Russow ; Greenpeace Canada ; GlobalResearch.ca ; Fogal, C. CAP ; Finley, S. GPS ; Earthcare ; Ducks Unlimited Canada ; Dr. David Schindler ; Dion, S. LIB ; Council of Cdns ; CSMonitor Environment ; Esprit de Corps ; Energy Probe ; ECOJustice ; Ecologist ; David Suzuki Foundation ; Jacob Rempel

Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:19 AM

Subject: DU - Original May 9.06 article, Mr. Breitkreuz's August.07 letter to Mr. MacKay/Mr. MacKay's Sept.07 reply

(Typed from original by Elaine Hughes)

Minister of National Defence
Ottawa, Canada K1A 0K2

September 26, 2007

Mr. Garry Breitkreuz, M.P.
Yorkton-Melville
Room 685, Confederation Building
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6

Dear Colleague:

Thank you for your correspondence of August 15, 2007, on behalf of Ms. Elaine Hughes, concerning depleted uranium (DU).

DU munitions were used during the 1991 Gulf War and during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia (except Croatia). The United Nations Environment Program has published three reports examining the environmental and health threats of using DU munitions:

- Depleted Uranium in Bosnia & Herzegovina: Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment:
[ http://www.unep.org/cpi/pmp/search/pub_ ... asp?ID=127 ]

- Depleted Uranium in Kosovo: Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment:
[ http://www.unep.org/cpi/pmp/search/pub_ ... sp?ED=2975 ]

- Depleted Uranium in Serbia & Montenegro:
[ http://www.unep.org/cpi/pmp/search/pub_ ... asp?ID=128 ]

All reports concluded that the use of DU munitions did not constitute a significant threat to either the environment or the local population. The World Health Organization (WHO) also concluded that DU is not a threat to local population in countries where it has been used and that the biological monitoring of citizens living close to DU round impaction sites is not necessary.

Website:
[ www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/pub_meet ... report.pdf includes the WHO report ].

I trust this information provides reassurance regarding possible health risks posed by depleted uranium. Again, thank you for your representation.

Sincerely

Peter G. MacKay

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Ottawa
August 15, 2007

The Honourable Peter MacKay, P.C., M.P.
Minister of National Defence
507-S Centre Block
Ottawa ON K1A 0A6

Dear Minister:

I am forwarding an email letter dated June 9, 2007 from Elaine Hughes of Archerwill, Saskatchewan regarding the use of local depleted uranium in U.S. nuclear weapons.

As you can see, Ms. Hughes in concerned that Canadian resources are contributing to inhumane activities in Afghanistan.

I would appreciate your officials looking into this to determine whether Canada is in any way at fault and if the accusations contained in the accompanying material are true.

Sincerely,

Garry Breitkreuz, MP
Yorkton-Melville

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Impacts of Depleted Uranium Contamination on Afghan Children

----- Original Message -----
From: Elaine Hughes
To: Prime Minister Harper ; Premier Calvert ; NDP Caucus ; Breitkreuz, Garry - M.P.
Cc: SK Party Caucus ; Sierra Club - US ; Sierra Club - Can. ; Sask. Wildlife Fed. ; Safe Drinking Water Foundation ; Sandra Finley, Sk Green ; Parkland Institute ; New International ; Karwaki,D.SK Lib. ; J. Layton, MP ; Greenpeace Canada ; Esprit de Corps ; Elizabeth May ; Ecologist ; Earthcare ; Ducks Unlimited Canada ; Dr. David Schindler ; Dion, S. LIB ; David Suzuki Foundation ; Cdn.ActionParty ; Cdn. Wildlife Federation ; Cdn. Health Coalition ; Brad Wall Sask Party
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 2:35 PM

Subject: Impacts of Depleted Uranium Contamination on Afghan Children

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What kind of a sick and depraved society allows this to continue, and even encourages more uranium be taken from its protected place underground . . . . ?

Elaine Hughes
Archerwill, SK

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FRIENDS:

Uranium from Saskatchewan, Canada goes to USA military and nuclear power industries. There it is used in nuclear weapons and power plants. The nuclear waste from power plants, called "depleted uranium" is not really depleted. It is fairly safe to handle, but it is then used to harden artillery shells, cruise missile shells, and bomb carrying rockets. They are so hard that they can penetrate the heaviest steel armour and thick concrete bunkers deep underground.

These weapons were used by US forces in the war in Yugoslavia, in Iraq in the first Gulf war in 1990, in Afghanistan, again in Iraq, and perhaps in Lebanon.

When these munitions strike any surface, they get very hot and release radioactive vapour and dust which enter the air and water, spreading far and wide. This is then breathed by animals and humans. From the water, it enters plants which are eaten by animals and humans.

This radioactive uranium in the body makes animals and people sick, affects sperm of men and the ova of women. Their children are born with various diseases and deformities.

Below are some photographs and a message from an Afghani doctor, showing us some of the effects of our radioactive nuclear war on the people of Afghanistan.

...Jacob Rempel, Vancouver yasch@telus.net

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----- Original Message ----- From: Westaway
This has been circulating on the net for some time now.
It's worth looking at again to remind us of what our depleted uranium war in the mid east, including Iraq, is doing to newborn children. All so that a few oilmen and military industrialists can make more $$$millions.
- Don.
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******EXTREME****** CAUTION: GRAPHIC PHOTOS are on website:

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Death Made In America: Impacts of Depleted Uranium Contamination on Afghanistan's Children - Disturbing Photographs
by Dr. Mohammed Daud Miraki

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Global Research, May 9, 2006

A LITTLE TERRORIST: ENJOY YOUR HANDIWORK USA

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I took this photo on the last day of my journey: one the triplets Afghanistan is has become the disaster words could not describe, hence, I decided to illustrate this disaster via these photos of babies born deformed.

On many occasions, I pointed out that we need funds to build a research institute and the linked monitoring stations. Unfortunately, majority of you simply brushed off my request. I wonder if these photos could elevate your humanity that has been overwhelmed by your comfortable life and materials desires.

Again, it is up to you, to do whatever you think is human; that should not be too difficult. The funds for the research institute are very small price you have to pay after all your tax dollars have created this disaster. Whether you like it, admit or deny it, it does not absolve you from the indirect complicity in these war crimes.

If everyone visiting this web site pays the amount they spend on soft drinks in a month, we would have the funds to build our research facility:

AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IN ACTION-"FREEDOM IS ON THE MOVE" RIGHT? YOUR GOVERNMENT is CRIMINAL BUT YOU ARE equally RESPONSIBLE.
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YOU MIGHT SAY, "THAT'S LIFE WHAT COULD I DO" PAY FOR THE RESEARCH FACILITY-A TOTAL COST OF FIVE MILLION DOLLARS-PEANUTS COMPARE TO THIS PAIN.

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I HOPE YOU COULD EAT TONIGHT AND LOOK AT YOUR CHILDREN AND SAY IT IS OKAY TO REMAIN INDIFFERENT. I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED AFTER ALL IT IS OKAY-YOU HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT, RIGHT? You had everything to do with it, your tax dollars paid for their misery!!!

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HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF YOUR CHILDREN WERE BORN LIKE THIS?

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FROM THE AMERICAN GIFT (URANIUM MUNITIONS) THAT KEEPS ON GIVING

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HORRORS UNLIMITED: MADE IN USA
The parents of this child do not give a damn about your freedom BS or some other garbage
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OUR CHILDREN WOULD BE BORN THIS WAY FOR EVER THANKS TO THE URANIUM MUNITIONS USED BY YOUR ARMED FORCES PAID FOR BY YOUR TAX DOLLARS.

OH A FEW MINOR DETAILS ABOUT SITUATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN:
URANIUM MUNITIONS

Due to the use of massive amount of uranium munitions used by the US forces in the initial bombing and subsequently, massive amount of congenital deformities occur all over Afghanistan. The rate of various cancers has gone up significantly. Leukemia and esophageal cancers are very high among children. According to doctors at maternity and children hospitals in Kabul, the rate of various congenital deformities have increased by many folds since the US invasion. In fact, the magnitude of man made isotopes was established by the Uranium Medical Research Center after their investigators made to trips to Afghanistan and collected urine and soil samples. They established that the rate of man made isotopes was gone up 2000 times in some subjects located near the bombed areas.

Since uranium used in the weapons have a half-life of 4.5 billion years, the US forces ensured that generations of Afghans suffer from cancers and deformities. This is certainly not development. In fact, it is the biggest crime ever committed by anyone in the history of humanity.

RECONSTRUCTION

There has been a lot of talk of reconstruction and rebuilding, but this issue could only be understood if one compares the substance against the rhetoric and the large amount of money allocated for the so-called reconstruction. Of all the whooplas made of reconstruction, the US and its client regime has only inaugurated the truck route-highway-between Kabul and Kandahar. This hallmark of achievement that the US brags about was completed 40 percent during the Taliban government. While the highway is inaugurated, it still needs significantly additional work to remain intact. The inauguration of the highway was a political ploy aimed to convince the critiques that the reconstruction has been going smooth. It is hardly so.

When I entered Afghanistan from Pakistan, the lack of achievement was evident. For the past three years, there have been construction efforts underway to pave the road from Torkham, the entry point from Pakistan to Afghanistan, to the city of Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan.
Unfortunately, the Pakistani contractors are more interested to have their tea breaks rather than to do any rebuilding. I brought up this issue with the authorities in Kabul, but to avail.

After reaching Jalalabad, I was further surprised to see the roads in the city with massive potholes, unpaved roads, hence, tremendous amount of dust blown in every direction. The reason for the lack of work in Jalalabad, as is the case almost every where in Afghanistan, corrupt officials eager to make money than to worry about the welfare of the people.

If a Mayor is appointed to a town or city, the would be mayor has to pay $40,000 bribe since he would be making more than $400,000 in selling government land to the highest bidder.

The magnitude of corruption is not limited to a province, but rather officials in the central government in Kabul are equally complicit in massive corruption and inefficiency which I would discuss shortly. Since the main road to Kabul is under construction for the past three years-we had to take a mountain pass called Lataband, which is a very rugged mountain terrain with huge rocks and massive potholes widespread for miles on. Once I reached Kabul, I stopped complaining about the Lataband road-after all Lataband is a mountain pass-Kabul the capital city lacked paved roads with exception of very few. The government in Kabul has not done anything of substance whether it pertains to infrastructure, housing, sanitation or drinking water. These are the essential elements of survival in any city. There are several reasons for the lack of progress. Some of the reasons are fundamentally flawed while others are bureaucratic hurdles and corruption. The fundamental flaws are situated in the free market approach superimposed on Afghanistan. There are two aspects of the free market that impedes the reconstruction of basic infrastructure in Kabul, one is the idea that money spent has to be invested with a return in mind, second, basic development should be contracted to private sector. Both of these issues have impeded the rebuilding of infrastructure.

In the first half of the 20th century, the Afghan government asked for a loan from the US government to build basic infrastructure-paved roads in Kabul, the government and the bank refused the loan on the ground that building roads in Kabul is not profitable investment. The government in Kabul at that time, argued that for any profitable enterprise to succeed basic infrastructure has to be built. So there is very little amount allocated for rebuilding basic infrastructure. It is worth noting that part of the blame goes to the international reconstruction aid as it is dispersed in such a way that some amount is allocated to the government in Kabul while the rest goes to the countless NGOs. Since the first problem, namely investment with a profit in mind, does not materialize in the construction of roads, efforts are made to resolve that problem through contracting out construction of roads to private sector. Thus, contracting out roads to private sector would mean money for contractors, hence, compensate for the lack of profitability associated with paving roads. This created another problem.

Once a road is contracted out, the private contracting firm resort to delaying tactics associated with feasibility study and other related issues in order to fatten its return. This delayed tactic does not serve peoples' needs and the roads remain unpaved. For example, the road from Kabul's airport to the presidential palace was contracted out three years ago it was still not built. This practice of contracting out projects adds to unemployment. Had the government adopted a different method, perhaps by hiring local laborers and using machinery, the chronic unemployment would be reduced, thus, people would have some food on the table.
Three weeks ago, Karzai announced that the road in the Dasht-e-Barchi area repaired and built. The allocated funding is $10,000000 ten million dollars. This is an outrage. Ten million dollars could repair all the roads in the capital, Kabul if only the function is taken over by the ministry of public works.

The Free Market Nonsense:

In order to please the US administration, the regime in Kabul advocated the notion of 'free market' as if this would become a panacea for the national economy. On the contrary, the so-called free market scheme had been tried in the past-the 1930s-- that resulted in fruitless consumerism of imported goods, which otherwise would have been produced domestically. Moreover, the consumption of luxuries received more priority than investment in productive sectors of the economy. A handful of businessmen and investors became rich while the rest of the country remained poor and destitute. Today, in the post-Taliban Afghanistan, the consumption of goods such as television sets and satellite dishes are more important than worrying about clean water and proper schooling. After all, as long as capitalism had brought the culture of corruption and entertainment, other necessities become secondary. Meanwhile, people with money import these goods, pocket their profits and leave. The desire of the installed regime to collect custom duties contributes to the perpetuation of underdevelopment.

Corruption also plays a significant role in the continuation of import than investment in productive infrastructure. For example, for the past 2-3 years over 100,000 tons of cement is imported while the construction plans of four cement factories collect dust. The official reason is that the country does not have a mining law. This year alone 380,000 tons of cement is imported this year alone. The question is how long does it take to formulate a mining law; it has been three years. The profit margin for dealers has skyrocketed while the long-term development prospects have waned down with every imported bag of cement.

AMERICAN CRIMES AND ORGANIZED CRIMES

With the collapse of Taliban, a very profitable, yet nasty sector of the economy has risen to new heights. Organized crime is an extension of what used to be warlords and their armies of bandits. With the warlords and other officials of the Northern Alliance occupying official positions, their former foot soldiers are equipped with new weapons and Toyota trucks, Landcruisers, with only one aim to kidnap people from diverse backgrounds for large sums of money. Once the money is secured, the government officials, who are also leading these bandits, keep 80 percent for themselves and 20 percent for their men.

The Italian aid worker, who was kidnapped in Kabul in broad daylight, was a victim of these organized bandits. After she was released, the government claimed that it secured the release of the aid worker through negotiation, but the truth is otherwise. The kidnappers received 5 million dollars. Those poor souls that can not afford paying ransoms end up dead.
Other groups of criminals kidnap children for money as well as for their organs. This is an epidemic that people sought Talibans' assistance for in the mid-1990s, however, it appears that this is no longer an issue for the US occupation force and their puppets after all when it comes to crimes what could be more criminal that using WMD against civilian population. The US forces have used uranium weapons against the people of Afghanistan, and continue to commit crimes that dwarf what the organized criminals are doing.

The followings are some of the examples of the brutality of the US forces in Afghanistan:

Rape and Murder by the US forces

In the Bagrami area of Kabul, the US forces assaulted a small enclave of nomads. The US forces flew over this enclave and saw nomad women near their tents. They landed their helicopter and kidnapped these women by gunpoint. Subsequently, the US soldiers flew away with these women to some location, where these women are gang-raped. After these women were raped and died in the process, the soldiers flew them back to the community from where they were kidnapped. However, this time the helicopter did not land, instead, the women were thrown down from the helicopter. This is not unique for the US forces since they committed similar crimes in Vietnam. American forces are too much of cowards to have landed because they knew they would be shot in revenge.

Another incident occurred when a US helicopter spotted an old shepherd grazing his animals. The shepherd was 70 years old but this did not appear to matter to the US forces. The helicopter landed and raped the old man. His relatives told me that on the one hand we are furious about the crime committed by these beasts, but on the other hand we are curious "what kind of rotten people Americans are."

In another incident, a truck driver was driving his truck north from the Kabul, passing the US base in Bagram when the US patrol stopped him. In the passenger seat of the truck a young boy was sitting. This young man wanted to learn driving a truck, but tragically for him, the Americans noticed him and asked him to step out. The young man stepped out and the soldiers took him away from the truck and gang raped him. When the boy returned to the truck, he was crying and furious. Later that day, he committed suicide. This is another gift of the US's democracy.

In the American military base Bagram, north of Kabul, 15 translators while working for the US forces were gang raped by the very forces for which they worked. Although I have no sympathy for those that work for the US forces, however, no one should be subjected to such extreme cruelty. One of the translators said, "Around 25 to 30 American soldiers enter the area where we were sleeping and started raping us. I was conscious until to the third soldier started raping me and then lost consciousness." (Hamid-translator for the US forces, June 2005)
In Badakhshan province, the US soldiers had taken forty (40) women and extracted their teeth for oral sex. One member of the parliament, who is a close supporter of Karzai, said:
"Th issue of these women treated in such a miserable way was about to get some publicity, however, the US officials made sure that this does not happen." (Parliament member--I can not reveal his name)

In another incident, the US forces were searching local houses between JalaAbad and Kabul, when they entered and tried to search the house, they came across the woman of the house, since she was very beautiful, the soldiers decided to take her to the US base. The husband was not at home. When he returned from Peshawar, he went to get his wife. He told his wife, "To me you are now my mother and sister, I can not touch you any more, but tell me if they have violated your dignity? 'They raped me by force, I was conscious for the first three men, then lost consciousness'." (The husband whose name I can not reveal his name. He joined Taliban afterward and I do not blame him.)

A young man committed suicide in the Laic-e-Mariam in KairKhana area after the Americans in an NGO raped his sister.

These are some of the very few examples of the many crimes committed by the US forces in Afghanistan, but unfortunately, the coward officials of the puppet regime call it reconstruction. To add insult to injury, the two American soldiers, who murdered two detainees at Bagram airbase, received only 2 and 3 months in jail for crime ruled homicide by the US medical examiners. The two detainees were beaten at their legs while hanging from the ceiling until their legs "pulverized". The term "pulverized" was used by the medical examiner to articulate the magnitude of the fatal injury and the inhumane way of murdering. When one of the victims asked for water, the soldier poured water over his face; subsequently, the poor man died. This is American reconstruction of Afghanistan.

Life for Ordinary People

There is absolutely no hope for the Afghans. The billions of dollars of development aid did not benefit ordinary Afghans. Abject poverty is the rule of the day. Orphans and widows roam the streets to make a living. The NGOs and foreign advisors enjoy life to the fullest. They are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, enjoy luxury vehicles and houses, while ordinary Afghans die from homelessness, hunger and disease.

In light of the London donor conference, which would amount to nothing considering the legacy of so-called reconstruction in Afghanistan; it is prudent to make some points.

It is a tragedy of immense proportion that no one even dare to address the abomination that is called life with inevitable demise at every corner resulting from the massive amount of uranium munitions used by the American forces and their allies. Our so-called Afghans self-sold surrogates are more than happy to jump on the bandwagon and express their gratitude for the token thrown at our people when in fact their entire existence is put in question by the massive use of weapons of mass destruction. Let the progress of the Bonn agreement tell the children of Tora Bora and Shah-e-Kot suffering from Leukemia and Esophageal cancers, or the massive number of sudden abortions occurring among women and animals in those areas.

Another legacy is the corruption of bribery and sheer robbery by the officials of this puppet regime eager to make dollars. Unfortunately, they do not even accept Afghan currency but rather demand dollars. According to an Afghan commission, the amount of bribes paid in Afghanistan ranges from 20 Afghani to 15,000000 Dollars. In a country where an experience medical technologist is paid $40/month, the millions of dollars paid in bribe point to the magnitude of profit individuals and companies expected to enjoy.

Abject poverty is every where and hopes of revival are no where. The billions of dollars donated went into the pockets of NGOs and powerful government officials, while the poor remains poor.

Another problem is Americanization of the system, namely whole sale firing of professionals with decades of experience under the pretext of making hospitals and offices efficient. The truth is the US wants to implement capitalism in Afghanistan and bring open market when in fact no has food to eat or money to pay for healthcare. The shortage of physicians and health technicians is ignored for the sake of this garbage called free market. Now there are no private companies to hire these professionals with decades of experience. It would have been nice if other opportunities existed, but there are none.

Today in Afghanistan, there are a few very rich and the rest extremely poor thanks to the United States of America.

Afghan Resistance and US losses:

The Afghan resistance fighters consist of Pashtuns, entirely. The East, Southeast, South and Southwest, West and part of Central area of Afghanistan are the most volatile. The US forces have lost a lot of soldiers there. In fact, ordinary Afghans used to wondered about the US losses and started to believe a myth that the soldiers that are killed in Afghanistan must come from orphanages in the US, hence, their death is not missed by anyone. To the Afghans, it does not make sense when so many soldiers lose their lives and yet there has not been any outrage on the part of the families of those soldiers. Thus, ordinary Afghans started this myth that the soldiers that are killed in Afghanistan are from orphanages since this was the only rational explanation they could find.
Before going to Afghanistan, different sources claimed that American dead were kept refrigerated on board ships in the Arabian Sea and at US bases in the Middle East. When I went to Afghanistan, many people within the Afghan Ministry of Defense told me similar stories that American dead are stored in refrigerated containers on board ships and at the US bases in the Middle East. In fact, one translator, who was working with the US forces, told me that he had seen refrigerated containers filled with dead US soldiers. The following two incidents should give a glimpse into the US losses and lies about those losses there.

Around June 12, 2005, an Afghan resistance fighter rammed an explosives laden vehicle into the US military convey in Kandahar. The result was severe losses for the US military. Initially, the media reported that five American soldiers were killed, then later that figure was abandoned and replaced with only four wounded. However, the truth was completely different. An eyewitness, Haji Habib told us an entirely different account of the losses:
"A suicide bomber slammed his vehicle into the US convey. The vehicle must have been full of powerful explosives because the explosion was really loud and shattering. After the dust and smoked settled, I counted the charred bodies. There were 39 charred bodies. The American cleanup team came with cranes and picked the destroyed armored vehicles and dead bodies before anyone could take photographs." (Haji Habib: June 14, 2005-my first trip)

In another incident around the 22nd of May 2005, the US forces lost 75 soldiers along with three tanks and three armored vehicles in Helmand province in Southwestern Afghanistan. This occurred when the US unit went to the province and arrested a former Mujahideen commander. The eyewitness, a translator, who witnessed and counted the dead bodies at Kandahar airport after being transported from Helmand described the operation as follows:
"The Americans went to Helamd to arrest a former commander. When they arrested him, his villagers and former Mujahideen fighters blocked the retreat of the US forces. The US forces fired at the men standing in their way, killing six of them. Since the rest of the fighters had already taken positions, the Americans were bombarded with RPG-7 grenade-launchers and heavy machinegun fire. In the firefight, the arrested commander was also martyred but also 75 American soldiers were killed, three of their tanks and three armored vehicles were also destroyed. When the American reinforcement arrived, all the Mujahideen fighters were long gone. Instead, the US helicopters bombed civilian areas." (Abdul Ali-eyewitness to the fight)

At the end of February 2006, in Uruzgan province an American convey was ambushed and 29 American soldiers were killed, while officially they admitted only four. These are just few of the many unreported losses of the US soldiers in Afghanistan.

FINAL NOTE

For those of you who would make the argument that we were attacked by Bin Laden and the Taliban refused to hand him over even though we refused to show his involvement, here is a piece of information revealed by Vice President Cheney. His answer to a question from the Tony Snow Show via telephone, and the link below is that of the White House:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases ... 329-2.html
Q: I want to be clear because I've heard you say this, and I've heard the President say it, but I want you to say it for my listeners, which is that the White House has never argued that Saddam was directly involved in September 11th, correct?

THE VICE PRESIDENT: That's correct. We had one report early on from another intelligence service that suggested that the lead hijacker, Mohamed Atta, had met with Iraqi intelligence officials in Prague, Czechoslovakia. And that reporting waxed and waned where the degree of confidence in it, and so forth, has been pretty well knocked down now at this stage, that that meeting ever took place. So we've never made the case, or argued the case that somehow Osama bin Laden [sic] was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming. But there -- that's a separate proposition from the question of whether or not there was some kind of a relationship between the Iraqi government, Iraqi intelligence services and the al Qaeda organization.

So the US bombed Afghanistan and killed tens of thousands of people and turned the country into a uranium hellhole on a hunch?

Obviously so, and that is why, they could never produce an ounce of proof of his complicity in the attacks.

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Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, MA, PhD
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[Oscar]

October 30, 2007

Here are some pertinent statements from the IAEA Agreement with the UN giving exclusive control over matters nuclear, especially dissemination of nuclear information, to the IAEA.

The IAEA was accused of censoring the WHO statements about the facts of the Chernobyl explosion and meltdown.

The validity of the UN statements referred to in Peter G. MacKay's letter below must be questioned in view of the IAEA control over information [see Article II and the last statement in the excerpt from the protocol at the end of the attached]. Since the USA is one of the key players in the IAEA they have a vested interest in what information is released. As Article II states: if divulging information may constitute "a violation of the�confidence of any of its Members or anyone from whom it shall have received such information," then such information can be safeguarded as confidential.

Also, the NPT- Nuclear Proliferation Treaty does not cover depleted uranium, its use or distribution.

“The treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear Weapons NPT which came into force in 1970, introduced a further refinement-NPT safeguards would not exclude every military use but only the development of nuclear explosives. An NPT non-weapon state would in principle, be free to carry out any non-explosive use of nuclear technology." David Fischer IAEA, Vision and Reality. This would include the use of depleted uranium.

James Penna,
Saskatoon, SK

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THE TEXTS OF THE AGENCY’S [IAEA] AGREEMENTS WITH THE UNITED NATIONS INFCIRC/11, 30 October 1959

http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Docume ... circ11.pdf

ARTICLE II Confidential information

The United Nations or the Agency may find it necessary to apply certain limitations for the safeguarding of confidential material furnished to them by their Members or others, and, subject to the provisions of Article IX, nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to require either of them to
furnish any information the furnishing of which would, in its judgement, constitute a violation of the confidence of any of its Members or anyone from whom it shall have received such information.

ARTICLE VI - Exchange of information and documents

1. There shall be the fullest and promptest exchange between the United Nations and the Agency of appropriate information and documents.

2. The Agency, in conformity with its Statute and to the extent practicable, shall furnish special studies or information requested by the United Nations.

3. The United Nations shall likewise furnish the Agency, upon request, with special studies or information relating to matters within the competence of the Agency.

ARTICLE XVII - Public information

The United Nations and the Agency shall co-operate in the field of public information with a view to avoiding overlapping or uneconomical services, and where necessary or appropriate, to establishing common or joint services in this field.

ARTICLE XX - Inter-agency and other agreements

The Agency shall inform the United Nations before the conclusion of any formal agreement between the Agency and any specialized agency or inter-governmental organization or any non-governmental organization enjoying consultative status with the United Nations, of the nature and scope of any such agreement, and shall inform the United Nations of the conclusion of any such agreement.

ARTICLE XXI - Registration of agreements

The United Nations and the Agency shall consult together as may be necessary with regard to the registration with the United Nations of agreements within the meaning of Article XXI.B of the Statute of the Agency.

ARTICLE XXII - Implementation of this Agreement

The Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Director General of the Agency may enter into such arrangements for the implementation of this Agreement as may be found desirable in the light of the operating experience of the two organizations.

B. PROTOCOL CONCERNING THE ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY

Article XVI of the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency authorizes the Agency to enter into an agreement establishing an appropriate relationship between the Agency and the United Nations, which agreement shall provide for the submission by the Agency of reports to the United Nations and the consideration by the Agency of resolutions relating to it adopted by the General Assembly or any of the Councils of the United Nations.

"With regard to paragraph 1 of Article I of the draft agreement, it is noted that the Agency, which is established for the specific purpose of dealing with the peaceful uses of atomic energy, will have the leading position in this field".

[Oscar]

Depleted uranium: a strange way to protect Libyan civilians (Graphics)

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... &aid=23985

by David Wilson

Global Research, March 27, 2011
http://www.globalresearch.ca/

Stop the War Coalition - 2011-03-26
http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2321/27/

"[uranium tipped missiles] fit the description of a dirty bomb in every way... I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people." Marion Falk, chemical physicist (retd), Lawrence Livermore Lab, California, USA

In the first 24 hours of the Libyan attack, US B-2s dropped forty-five 2,000-pound bombs. These massive bombs, along with the Cruise missiles launched from British and French planes and ships, all contained depleted uranium (DU) warheads.

DU is the waste product from the process of enriching uranium ore. It is used in nuclear weapons and reactors. Because it is a very heavy substance, 1.7 times denser than lead, it is highly valued by the military for its ability to punch through armored vehicles and buildings. When a weapon made with a DU tip strikes a solid object like the side of a tank, it goes straight through it, then erupts in a burning cloud of vapor. The vapor settles as dust, which is not only poisonous, but also radioactive.

An impacting DU missile burns at 10,000 degrees C. When it strikes a target, 30% fragments into shrapnel. The remaining 70% vaporises into three highly-toxic oxides, including uranium oxide. This black dust remains suspended in the air and, according to wind and weather, can travel over great distances. If you think Iraq and Libya are far away, remember that radiation from Chernobyl reached Wales.

Particles less than 5 microns in diameter are easily inhaled and may remain in the lungs or other organs for years. Internalized DU can cause kidney damage, cancers of the lung and bone, skin disorders, neurocognitive disorders, chromosome damage, immune deficiency syndromes and rare kidney and bowel diseases. Pregnant women exposed to DU may give birth to infants with genetic defects. Once the dust has vaporised, don't expect the problem to go away soon. As an alpha particle emitter, DU has a half life of 4.5 billion years.

In the 'shock and awe' attack on Iraq, more than 1,500 bombs and missiles were dropped on Baghdad alone. Seymour Hersh has claimed that the US Third Marine Aircraft Wing alone dropped more than "five hundred thousand tons of ordnance". All of it DU-tipped.

Al Jazeera reported that invading US forces fired two hundred tons of radioactive material into buildings, homes, streets and gardens of Baghdad. A reporter from the Christian Science Monitor took a Geiger counter to parts of the city that had been subjected to heavy shelling by US troops. He found radiation levels 1,000 to 1,900 times higher than normal in residential areas. With its population of 26 million, the US dropped a one-ton bomb for every 52 Iraqi citizens or 40 pounds of explosives per person.

William Hague has said that we are in Libya " to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas".You don't have to look far for who and what are being 'protected'.

In that first 24 hours the 'Allies' 'expended' £100 million on DU-tipped ordnance. The European Union's arms control report said member states issued licences in 2009 for the sale of £293.2 million worth of weapons and weapons systems to Libya. Britain issued arms firms licences for the sale of £21.7 million worth of weaponry to Libya and were also paid by Colonel Gadaffi to send the SAS to train his 32nd Brigade.

For the next 4.5 billion years, I'll bet that William Hague will not be holidaying in North Africa.

[Oscar]

WHO Refuses to Publish Report on Cancers and Birth Defects in Iraq Caused by Depleted Uranium Ammunition

By Denis Halliday

Global Research, September 13, 2013

[ http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-refuse ... on/5349556 ]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has categorically refused in defiance of its own mandate to share evidence uncovered in Iraq that US military use of Depleted Uranium and other weapons have not only killed many civilians, but continue to result in the birth of deformed babies.

This issue was first brought to light in 2004 in a WHO expert report “on the long-term health of Iraq’s civilian population resulting from depleted uranium (DU) weapons”. This earlier report was “held secret”, namely suppressed by the WHO:

The study by three leading radiation scientists cautioned that children and adults could contract cancer after breathing in dust containing DU, which is radioactive and chemically toxic. But it was blocked from publication by the World Health Organization (WHO), which employed the main author, Dr Keith Baverstock, as a senior radiation advisor. He alleges that it was deliberately suppressed, though this is denied by WHO. (See Rob Edwards, WHO ‘Suppressed’ Scientific Study Into Depleted Uranium Cancer Fears in Iraq, The Sunday Herald, February 24, 2004)
[ http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0222-08.htm

Almost nine years later, a joint WHO- Iraqi Ministry of Health Report on cancers and birth defect in Iraq was to be released in November 2012. “It has been delayed repeatedly and now has no release date whatsoever.”

To this date the WHO study remains “classified”.

According to Hans von Sponeck, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations,

“The US government sought to prevent the WHO from surveying areas in southern Iraq where depleted uranium had been used and caused serious health and environmental dangers.” (quoted in Mozhgan Savabieasfahani Rise of Cancers and Birth Defects in Iraq: World Health Organization Refuses to Release Data, Global Research, July 31, 2013
[ http://www.globalresearch.ca/rise-of-ca ... ta/5344530 ]

This tragedy in Iraq reminds one of US Chemical Weapons used in Vietnam. And that the US has failed to acknowledge or pay compensation or provide medical assistance to thousands of deformed children born and still being born due to American military use of Agent Orange throughout the country.

The millions of gallons of this chemical dumped on rural Vietnam were eagerly manufactured and sold to the Pentagon by companies Dupont, Monsanto and others greedy for huge profits.

Given the US record of failing to acknowledge its atrocities in warfare, I fear those mothers in Najaf and other Iraqi cities and towns advised not to attempt the birth of more children will never receive solace or help.

A United Nations that is no longer corrupted by the five Permanent Members of the Security Council is what is needed.

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