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Camp Democracy Arrest
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Iraq War Vets Detained at Pentagon by David Swanson,
OpEdNews.com
Vets
Arrested for Educating Public September
10, 2006 on davidswanson's blog at CampDemocracy.org photo
Five young men, four of them vets of the current war, at least one of them poisoned by depleted uranium, were arrested yesterday at the Pentagon because one of them left a stack of flyers on a literature table. The flyers contained information about the effects of depleted uranium. The five held a press conference this morning at Camp Democracy. They are charged with Posting Materials and Disobeying a Lawful Order. They have a date in court in Alexander, Va., on November 17, 2006.
DU not a popular topic at the Pentagon by Scott Hortonat on the AntiWar.com blog
by Juan Gonzalez, NY Daily News columnist, September 8, 2006
Quote: ...Assistant U.S. Attorney John Cronan, representing the Army, urged Koeltl to dismiss the lawsuit immediately. Cronan repeatedly referred to a 1950 Supreme Court decision, commonly known as the Feres Doctrine, that prohibits soldiers from suing the government for injuries "incident to [military] service." "Any trial of this would be second-guessing sensitive military matters that civilian courts should not be discussing," Cronan said.
And a September
7th, 2006, Democracy Now! interview
regarding the same trial:
Court
Hearing on Suit Filed by Iraq Veterans Contaminated with Depleted
Uranium Against U.S. military
Quote: It was a hearing over their lawsuit, they and their relatives, their families, against the United States military, over their exposure to depleted uranium. And there was a hearing over the government's motion to dismiss the case completely. And it lasted for several hours. And amazingly, much of the discussion was around the Ferris Doctrine, which is a 1950s Supreme Court decision that basically does not allow soldiers while on active service, who have injuries as a result of active service in the military, from being able to sue the government. And it was quite a hearing, because you had the U.S. Attorney and the lawyers for the plaintiffs, for the soldiers, raising all of the atrocities of the military in the past: radiation exposure to soldiers during World War II, agent orange exposure, LSD tests that the military conducted on soldiers. These were all the legal precedents that were being debated as to whether these soldiers had the right to sue the government, because the government, according to their lawsuit, was negligent in exposing them, violating its own protocols for protecting our troops from depleted uranium exposure.
The speaker is Juan Gonzales, the same NYDN columnist.
Also, search for Bill HR 2410 (Session 109) on Thomas at:
http://thomas.loc.gov/
May 11, 2006
House Passes McDermott
Depleted Uranium Study Amendment
Possible DU Health Effects on Soldiers Will Be Studied
Chernobyl's
'nuclear nightmares'
By Nick Davidson, 13 July 2006
An interesting article on radiation exposure and a questioning of the Linear No Threshold (LNT) model for ionizing radiation harm. (Sometimes refered to as No Safe Dose) Could all that DU actually be good for you? Some scientists are saying the animal life around Chernobyl is actually more resistant to cancer now. But how many animals had to die.
Sickened Iraq vets cite depleted
uranium
By Deborah Hastings, AP National Writer | August
12, 2006
Here is a very recent story from AP. It's similar in tone to many of the DU stories that managed to crack into the mainstream media back in 2003/2004, beginning with the case of the sick US veteran who suspects DU is the cause of his health problems. Overall, it is a good balanced article that ultimately suggests a profound lack of action and research by the US military or Veterans Affairs. It uses Dan Fahey as a major source. It doesn't mention Doug Rokke.
Cool quote: "The term depleted uranium is linguistically radioactive. Simply uttering the words can prompt a reaction akin to preaching atheism at tent revival. Heads shake, eyes roll, opinions are yelled from all sides." (The words are the article-writer's, or AP's if you will.)
Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - FreeMarketNews.com
In the article Arthur Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law, reportedly wrote that “thousands of our military have suffered and died from, [and depleted uranium] has finally been identified as the cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing. The terrible truth is now being revealed.” Bernklau went on to detail several alarming statistics. The historical disability rate amongst soldiers last century was about 5 percent, although it approached 10 percent during Vietnam. But due to the use of depleted uranium in the battlefield, 56 percent of the 580,400 solders that served in the first Gulf War were on Permanent Medical Disability by 2000. 11,000 Gulf War veterans are already dead. Now 518,739 Gulf War Veterans, almost all of them, are currently on medical disability.
Principi, under the order of the Bush Administration, had been allegedly covering up the disastrous results of using depleted uranium since 2000. However, with so many soldiers having serious health problems it has become impossible to keep secret.
RECOMMENDED!
Contains key links for this story.
An intriguing report that makes a sincere attempt at verification and balance.
DID ISRAEL USE EXPERIMENTAL BOMBS
WITH (ENRICHED) URANIUM IN LEBANON? (link)
Published: December 15, 2006
EXCERPT: During the last weekend of our 15-days during stay in Lebanon we visited Dr Kobeissi in the vicinity of the town Nabatiyeh, the capital of the southern Nabatiyeh district. After explaining his career as a nuclear physicist he told about his findings in the bomb craters of Khiam and at-Tiri. He tested these pits with a geiger counter from a local scrap dealer and that these results indicated the presence of uranium. He stressed that he has never said 'depleted uranium' and regretted the political bickerings this has caused among the different sects. He measured 50 nanosievert (nSv) per hour in the outside rim of the pits and 300 nSv in the heart of most pits with the exception of one which measured 800 nsV/h. He also declared that these dose rates in the pits decreased considerably day by day. On the suggestion that these higher measures could be due to the concentration of uranium in the ash ('concentrated background radiation from the burnt material') he agreed that this possibility is highly likely. At his home Kobeissi had collected tens of samples from shrapnel and soil from more than 50 different places, among which samples from the Khiam-crater. None of these samples measured a higher radiation dose rate than the background radiation dose rate. The samples were measured with a calibrated geiger counter from Laka Foundation.
WEAPONS USED, TARGETS HIT,
BOMBING INTENSITY IN LEBANON BY THE ISRAELI MILITARY,
by Leuren Moret, US Nuclear Weapons Lab Whistleblower (link)
Not only DU, but weird weapons as well (directed energy, lasers?), and cluster bombs, which look poised to become a mainstream news issue, perhaps because they're mentally easier to grasp than the sicko weapons that sicko militaries seem to keep coming up with. This according to Italian and other TV reports, according to Lauren Moret and Doug Rokke.
For more on the weird new weapons, look here:
http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/136518/1/5795
http://www.rainews24.it/ran24/inchieste/video/guerre_stellari_english.wmv (video)
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Post-Conflict Assessment Sought for Lebanon BEIRUT, Lebanon, August 22, 2006 (ENS) -
The international environmental group Friends of the Earth is appealing to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to send a team from its Post-Conflict Branch to Lebanon and Israel to conduct an independent assessment of the environmental impacts of the recent war between Hezbollah and Israel.
Israeli
Cluster Bombs Blanket Lebanese Towns
By Rick Kelly
Unexploded Israeli cluster munitions dropped during the 34-day war in Lebanon have killed at least 13 civilians and wounded 50 since the ceasefire took effect on August 14. About 100,000 unexploded cluster bomblets litter the country, preventing large numbers of people from returning to their homes
Other stories related to the recent Israeli attacks on Lebanon:
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-assaf310806.htm Israel Targeted Farms And Homes
http://www.countercurrents.org/en-allbritton280806.htm Environmental Disaster Emerges On Lebanon Coast
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-symonds250806.htm Amnesty International Details Israeli War Crimes In Lebanon
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-fisk210806.htm Lebanon-A Land Reduced To Rubble By Robert Fisk
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-jamail290706B.htm Israelis Accused Of Using Illegal Weapons By Dahr Jamail
Panel finds 'no evidence' Israel used depleted uranium in 2006 war
By Nour Samaha, Daily Star (Lebanon), February 27, 2007
(Reproduced here for reference.)
Israelis Rain Down Deadly DU On Lebanese Civilians
"It
is just like they have laid new mine fields" by By David
Enders, 23 Aug 2006
34 days of war leave Lebanon with thousands of new unexploded munitions