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Afghans’ uranium levels spark alert

By Alex Kirby
BBC News Online environment correspondent
**Edited - please remember to include a URL for all news articles: ** BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Afghans' uranium levels spark alert

A small sample of Afghan civilians have shown “astonishing” levels of uranium in their urine, an independent scientist says.

Critics suspect new weapons were used in Afghanistan
He said they had the same symptoms as some veterans of the 1991 Gulf war.

But he found no trace of the depleted uranium (DU) some scientists believe is implicated in Gulf War syndrome.

Other researchers suggest new types of radioactive weapons may have been used in Afghanistan.

The scientist is Dr Asaf Durakovic, of the Uranium Medical Research Center (UMRC) based in Canada.

Dr Durakovic, a former US army adviser who is now a professor of medicine, said in 2000 he had found “significant” DU levels in two-thirds of the 17 Gulf veterans he had tested.

In May 2002 he sent a team to Afghanistan to interview and examine civilians there.

The UMRC says: “Independent monitoring of the weapon types and delivery systems indicate that radioactive, toxic uranium alloys and hard-target uranium warheads were being used by the coalition forces.” There is no official support for its claims, or backing from other scientists.

Shock results

It says Nangarhar province was a strategic target zone during the Afghan conflict for the deployment of a new generation of deep-penetrating “cave-busting” and seismic shock warheads.

The UMRC says its team identified several hundred people suffering from illnesses and conditions similar to those of Gulf veterans, probably because they had inhaled uranium dust.

Bomb damage was widespread
To test its hypothesis that some form of uranium weapon had been used, the UMRC sent urine specimens from 17 Afghans for analysis at an independent UK laboratory.

It says: "Without exception, every person donating urine specimens tested positive for uranium internal contamination.

"The results were astounding: the donors presented concentrations of toxic and radioactive uranium isotopes between 100 and 400 times greater than in the Gulf veterans tested in 1999.

“If UMRC’s Nangarhar findings are corroborated in other communities across Afghanistan, the country faces a severe public health disaster… Every subsequent generation is at risk.”

It says troops who fought in Afghanistan and the staff of aid agencies based in Afghanistan are also at risk.

Scientific acceptance

Dr Durakovic’s team used as a control group three Afghans who showed no signs of contamination. They averaged 9.4 nanograms of uranium per litre of urine.

The average for his 17 “randomly-selected” patients was 315.5 nanograms, he said. Some were from Jalalabad, and others from Kabul, Tora Bora, and Mazar-e-Sharif. A 12-year-old boy living near Kabul had 2,031 nanograms.

Troops and aid workers could be at risk
The maximum permissible level for members of the public in the US is 12 nanograms per litre, Dr Durakovic said.

A second UMRC visit to Afghanistan in September 2002 found “a potentially much broader area and larger population of contamination”. It collected 25 more urine samples, which bore out the findings from the earlier group.

Dr Durakovic said he was “stunned” by the results he had found, which are to be published shortly in several scientific journals.

Identical outcome

He told BBC News Online: "In Afghanistan there were no oil fires, no pesticides, nobody had been vaccinated - all explanations suggested for the Gulf veterans’ condition.

“But people had exactly the same symptoms. I’m certainly not saying Afghanistan was a vast experiment with new uranium weapons. But use your common sense.”

The UK Defence Ministry says it used no DU weapons in Afghanistan, nor any others containing uranium in any form.

A spokesman for the US Department of Defense told BBC News Online the US had not used DU weapons there.

He could not comment on Dr Durakovic’s findings of elevated uranium levels in Afghan civilians.

Some thing to ponder about with open eyes and Brains, Seriously.
God bless the forthcoming generation and have your mercy. Ameen

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Top International Scientist Uncovers America’s Dirty Bombs used in Afghanistan

I am posting this interesting article for the purpose of spreading knowledge.

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http://www.mabonline.net/media/news/articles/usdirtybomb23.05.03.htm

Ahmad Mansur, presenter of Al-Jazeera’s most widely watched weekly programme ‘Bila Hudud’ (Without Frontiers), is known to host the very special and the highly influential. This week’s episode was exceptionally special; the host was Professor Asaf Durakovice, head of the Uranium Medical Research Centre (UMRC), in Washington DC.
Prof. Durakovice utilized his appearance on Al-Jazeera to announce the findings of his team of researchers regarding the weapons used by the United States in its war on Afghanistan, codenamed Operation Enduring Freedom.

Despite immense pressure on him to halt his research in this field, Prof. Durakovice, who is credited for discovering that Gulf War Syndrome was caused by contamination with depleted Uranium, suspected initially that the same type of depleted Uranium used in the 1991 Gulf War were used in Afghanistan. However, to his astonishment he discovered that the United States had developed a totally new type of non-depleted artificially produced Uranium, which is much more devastating and damaging to human life and the environment.

Prof. Durakovice’s findings have been compiled in a report, of which he kindly provided MAB with a hard copy. The following is the final section of the UMRC report entitled ‘Conclusion’:
UMRC’s biological, geological and hydrological studies, finding abnormally high values of Non-Depleted Uranium (NDU) contamination in Afghanistan have, to date, no other credible explanation of origin that Operation Enduring Freedom. The patterns of contamination are consistent with releases and subsequent inhalation of uranium aerosols coinciding in time and place with the bombing. Chronic public health problems have been recorded in areas adjacent to the bombing and in civilians down-win, exposed to the bombs’ dense smoke and dust plumes.

The radiological effects of slow-clearing ceramic uranium in the lungs may be exacerbated by heavy metal toxicity from weapons-derived, ingested and absorbed uranium recycling in the blood stream. Afghans now live in a permanently contaminated environment. The accumulation of ceramic uranium particulate in the lungs and metabolised uranium in target organs and circulatory systems (blood and lymph) mean many Afghan bodies have become their own, long term sources of radioactivity and chronic heavy metal, chemical toxicity.

UMRC continues to conduct its Afghanistan research by field collection and is of human and environmental specimens. Public health surveys continue in communities reporting “unexplained illnesses” while long-term assessments are underway in communities where battlefield uranium has been identified in urine, water and soil. Clinical studies have been initiated to examine the radioteoxic and chemotoxic effects of the contamination on lungs, kidneys and bones. UMRC is also conducting clinical studies on Gulf War veterans who have been determined to have Depleted Uranium in their urine.

The “stand-off” and “force protection” tactics of the US in the first few months of Operation Eduring Freedom relied exclusively on air-delivered munitions with a bare minimum of ground forces. It is unlikely therefore, that the first wave of US veterans from Afghanistan have been contaminated – with the exception of forward target designators (“paint crews”), Special Operations and Exploitation Teams, and Psy-Ops/Public Affairs units. Later, US, Canadian, British and other Coalition partners (including the Northern Alliance) were assigned to carry out US Cen-Com-directed tasks (i.e. ground searches after bombing; corralling Taliban and Al-Qaeda troops into air strike positions), which have put them at obvious risk of uranium contamination via inhalation.

Afghanistan’s civilians and all subsequent generations are of course facing the worst threats from contamination. Post-conflict public health and environmental assessments by the UN and NGO’s have been reporting for a year, health problems whose symptoms’ profiles resemble uranium internal contamination, but which they attribute to other causes. The World Health Organization and the UNEP have not been willing to challenge the regulators or Defence Department’s assumptions behind the dose-effect and exposure models used to dismiss uranium internal contamination or permanent environmental contamination with ceramic uranium oxides. These agencies consistently draw conclusions that battlefield uranium is not all that bad – yet quietly recommend bombsites are cordoned-off and their field-staff take protective measures to avoid contamination.

The UK Royal Society has called for a comprehensive evaluation of the effects and extent of contamination of uranium weapons (DU specifically) in Iraq – now that “Shock and Awe” is over. There remains a public preoccupation with DU, which considering the findings in Afghanistan need to recognise the more highly radioactive, higher volumes of aerosols produced by Non-Depleted Uranium – High Explosive Ordnance. Their deployment was regularly televised on daily reports from Baghdad and by unsuspecting embedded reporters in the field.

Environmental and human contamination from Operation Enduring Freedom’s deployment of new generations of uranium – high explosive munitions is at a scale that would command a government, public health disaster response if it occurred in western nuclear states. The situation in Afghanistan is a portent of the contamination expected to ensue from Operation Iraqi Freedom’s deployment of the same radiation-dispersion weapons at a much larger scale than Afghanistan.

It is deeply distressing that scientists such as Professor Durakovice have to endure extreme and brutal pressures and have to offer a great personal and professional sacrifice in order to bring such facts to light.

The world has a right to understand and fully appreciate the means by which the United States is pursuing its agenda. There can be no question that this report demonstrates that the United States Government and its forces have committed a gross violation of international law and serious crimes against humanity. Only time will tell what crimes and illegal weapons were used against the Iraqi people. Unfortunately, time will not serve those who have already been targeted by these inhumane elements.

The Muslim Association of Britain calls on our Government to conduct a comprehensive investigation in the practices and effects of the war in Afghanistan, and also to conduct an investigation and to back scientific research into the weapons used in Iraq. Any findings that demonstrate that illegal weapons were used against the Afghani and Iraqi people, must be swiftly followed by appropriate international action to bring the perpetrators to stand trial for their actions.

The Muslim Association of Britain
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