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Radioactive Waste From Iraq Wars Dumped in U.S.
Doug Rokke, Ph.D.
American Free Press
Monday, July 21, 2008
During the summer of 1991, the United States military had collected artillery, tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles, conventional and unconventional munitions, trucks, etc at Camp Doha in Kuwait.
As result of carelessness, this weapons depot caught fire with consequent catastrophic explosions resulting in death, injury, illness and extensive environmental contamination from depleted uranium and conventional explosives.
Recently the emirate of Kuwait required the U.S. Department of Defense to remove the contamination. Consequently, over 6,700 tons of contaminated soil, sand and other residue was collected and shipped back to the United States for burial by American Ecology at Boise, Idaho.
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When Bob Nichols, an investigative journalist, and I contacted American Ecology we found out that they had absolutely no knowledge of U.S. Army regulations and all of the medical orders dealing with depleted uranium contamination, environmental remediation procedures, safety and medical care.
They had never heard of Environmental Protection Agency guidelines for dealing with hazardous waste such as radioactive materials and conventional explosives byproducts.
The trans-shipment across the ocean, unloading at Longview, Washington State port, transport by rail, and burial in Idaho not only endanger the residents of these areas, but pose a significant agricultural threat through introduction of pests, microbes etc. foreign to our nation.
Sadly, the known adverse health and environmental hazards from uranium weapons contamination are in our own backyard. The EPA has listed the former Nuclear Metals-Starmet uranium weapons manufacturing site in Concord, Mass. on the EPA’s Superfund National Priority List because it poses a significant risk to public health and the environment.
Consequently, the community in which our nation was born on April 18, 1775, is now the location of America’s own closed dirty bomb factory that will endanger the health and safety of the descendants of the Minutemen.
The previous delivery of at least 100 GBU 28 bunker buster bombs containing depleted uranium warheads by the United States and their use by Israel against Lebanese targets has resulted in additional radioactive and chemical toxic contamination with consequent adverse health and environmental effects throughout the Middle East. Israeli tank gunners are also using depleted uranium tank rounds, as photographs verify.
Today, U.S., British, and now Israeli military personnel are using illegal uranium munitions—America’s and England’s own “dirty bombs.” The U.S. Army, Department of Energy, Department of Defense and British Ministry of Defense officials deny that there are any adverse health and environmental effects as a consequence of the manufacture, testing and/or use of uranium munitions. They do so to avoid liability for the willful and illegal dispersal of a radioactive toxic material— depleted uranium.
The use of uranium weapons is a crime against humanity. All governments must force cessation of uranium weapons use. Israel should provide medical care to all DU casualties in Lebanon and clean up all DU contamination.
U.S. and British officials have arrogantly refused to comply with their own regulations, orders and directives that require U.S. Department of Defense officials to provide prompt and effective medical care to all exposed individuals. They also refuse to clean up dispersed radioactive contamination as required by Army regulations.
Dr. Doug Rokke is the former director of the Army’s Depleted Uranium Project. It was his task to clean up the radioactive battlefields of the Gulf War.
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July 21st, 2008 at 6:18 am
we must spread the info about dep.uranium to as many as possible.the sheeple do not even know about it. i am going to buy a bullhorn and take alex’s example and start trying to wake sheeple up out of their mercury induced stupor.
July 21st, 2008 at 6:47 am
Tom, maybe you could look toward the screen?…
July 21st, 2008 at 7:05 am
I’m sure the goverment will take care of trashing this planet with DU,as soon as they equip all cows with fart bags, to save us from global warmming.
July 21st, 2008 at 7:10 am
Good one Connie. We can collect all the fart bags for proper disposal and send them to Al Gore.
July 21st, 2008 at 7:16 am
Good one Connie, We can then collect the fart bags for proper disposal and send them to Al Gore.
July 21st, 2008 at 9:24 am
Depleted Uranium is no joke; it remains radioactive and harmful for thousands of years. Remember the defects attributed to Agent Orange, well after a couple of generations they don’t have any more four-eyed children that I’ve heard of. However, as compared to 2 generations, Iraq and other parts of the Middle East will be dealing with defects related to DU for thousands (if not millions) of years unless this mess is cleaned up. For more insight check out the documentary Poison DUst.
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July 21st, 2008 at 10:19 am
deep red,….”its not being dumped, its being buried”
lol, splitting hairs and ignoring the fundimental issue of radioactive soil which WILL contaminate all water sources near it. idaho has a tonne of rivers, which happen to flow through very important fertile farmland and prime corn and potatoe country. i suppose the symantics of buried vs dumped is more important to you. typical american.
July 21st, 2008 at 12:30 pm
This should be an impeachable offense. Importing toxic waste on American soil. Endangering American lives. When will people WAKE UP!
July 21st, 2008 at 12:37 pm
just wait till they dig it up and disperse it thru the air on the u.s. population-our governement is full of satanistic/demon posessed mega-psycho-maniacs!
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July 21st, 2008 at 4:20 pm
is my government not being entirely truthfull to me????
no, way…..
July 21st, 2008 at 5:15 pm
NO Way! REally?
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July 21st, 2008 at 6:12 pm
A message from your wuving government:
“Radioactive waste doesn’t exist. And those trillions of tax dollars that went ‘missing’ from the Pentagon’s budget? They never existed either. Anyone who suggests otherwise is (you guessed it) a ‘conspiracy theorist.’ Sleep tight kiddies, and always remember: the government wuvs you.”
July 21st, 2008 at 6:50 pm
The half-life of uranium is about 4.3 billion years. That means half will have converted into other elements and the other half still remaining. It will take several tens and tens and tens of billions of years for all of it to have decayed away to a virtually non-radioactive state.
If you get uranium dust into your body, you’ve pretty much become a walking corpse waiting to die a terrible death of great suffering from cancers running amok and/or disability from heavy metal poisoning and other truly horrendous health problems.
The use of uranium-tipped weapons is an absolute abomination of sheer evilness and is 100% a crime against humanity, and animalkind as well.
July 29th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Whenever the US ships vehicles and equipment to the US and abroad, the equipment is supposed to be free and/or cleaned of all contaminants and hazardous materials according to regulation. But the military can see this as a problem because in order to clean this equipment sometimes “it” must be disassembled for a proper cleaning and then reassembled. This costs money. Money they will not spend especially in a hurried situation.
DU is hazardous to one’s health especially after destroying vehicles and equipment due to a chemical reaction with the metal the equipment is made of after being hit and then burning by the DU rounds,as the soldiers on the battlefield found out during Desert Storm from all the toxic fumes coming from the equipment and floating in the air similar to what the people experienced on 9/11 and during the cleanup. This is not new to the US Military.