Depleted uranium shells
Depleted uranium
in American projectiles in Iraq
Danger!
August 9, 2004
Updated April 21, 2005
**As reported by Mr. Frank Nadaud on May 22, 2005, there is a very well-documented American website on this subject. It seems that American pacifists are more active than we might think. But everything may be a matter of scale. Nevertheless, the French remain very passive in this regard. **
http://traprockpeace.org/depleted_uranium.html
The European constitution project contains a text that alone would be sufficient to reject the entire document. It refers to the death penalty, specifying that all countries adhering to this constitution reject it, except in the case of repressing an "insurrection." But what is an "insurrection," if not a large-scale demonstration manipulated by agitators? A single buried, remote-controlled bomb causing deaths among the "security forces" would trigger a heavy fire and a real massacre among the demonstrators. Cohn Bendit, former leader of the large student demonstrations of May 1968, now a member of the "Greens" and a member of the European Parliament, actively campaigns for the "Yes." Recently, he admitted that if such a clause had been in the constitution in 1968, he might have been killed. But perhaps he had neither read the text in full nor thought about its implications. Like many politicians, he has probably never done anything else in his life but politics, like Jacques Chirac or so many others. The race for power is so intense that one has to start very early, very young. What is astonishing is that French politics is most often "managed" by people who know nothing about the world of work or the society around them.
**April 5, 2011: In Iraq, Falluja "punished by the Americans." **
http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/telejournal/2010-2011/Reportage.asp?idDoc=143926&autoPlay ---
**The text on depleted uranium shells, updated April 21, 2005: **
Worldwide lung health will continue to deteriorate: this is the opinion of several scientists condemning the presence of tons of uranium in American shells, missiles, and bombs that will explode, and soon penetrate into the atmosphere in the form of insoluble radioactive fine dust.
It is known that the Earth's crust contains uranium, and this radioactive uranium is kept away from humans by the distance of the deposits and also by the soil screens located between the deposits and humans. In recent decades, many industries have started extracting uranium from the ground for various reasons, and as long as the uranium was kept away from people or stored behind barriers, such as concrete silos or strong drums, this radioactive component of the soil remained harmless.
Suddenly, American military engineers thought of using the high density of uranium when it is obtained in metallic form (more than twice as heavy as steel) to use it as a bunker and tank penetrator in projectiles. Indeed, the uranium darts placed in the projectiles easily penetrated tanks and rocks, thus providing the Americans with formidable weapons. However, it seems that the American army, intentionally or not, has concealed data that have proven very harmful to its own troops and the populations "to conquer."
Indeed, during large-scale tests, it was discovered that the uranium contained in the projectiles had a property that no one seemed to have considered: metallic uranium has the property of spontaneously igniting when divided into very small particles, and this particularity is called "pyrophoric metal." At first, the initial experts noticed the fact, but they did not pay attention. This did not seem to interfere with the initial projects.
But in nature, things changed. Indeed, the impacts of the projectiles divided the uranium, and it was observed that billions of uranium particles floated (aerosols) in the atmosphere near the explosions and impacts. The burned particles examined showed that unfortunately they were insoluble in nearly 90% of the total. Since they floated easily in the air, a contrary wind was enough for these particles to return to the 'allied' cannons and poison the shooters through pulmonary invasion.
In fact, it was observed that 90% of the uranium mass placed in the projectiles used was transformed during explosions into billions of billions of floating radioactive particles. Afterwards, it was observed that the smaller the floating particles were, the longer they remained in the air, and below the size of a micrometer or a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter, they remained in permanent suspension for months, carrying them thousands of kilometers from where they originated.
In addition, it was observed that soldiers involved in operations became ill after returning home, sometimes after years. This alarmed several researchers, including American Professor Durakovitch among the military doctors who noticed an overabundance of uranium in the victims' bodies, and even the presence of radioactive metals not intended to be placed in the projectiles. America then opposed Durakovitch.
The victims' respiratory system shows a weakening comparable to that resulting from the collapse of the immune defenses. The uranium particles "ceramized" by the explosions approached these victims and directly entered their lungs, irradiating them from the inside through the alpha emissions of uranium: this is the effect of close internal exposure with direct radiation at very short distance from the lung cells. After the adoption of American projectiles, metallic uranium divided into very small fragments in the form of dust is now able to approach humans directly through internal means, according to the air currents of the Northern Hemisphere, thus gradually contaminating us all at unexpected times, moments during which these strictly invisible uranium dust particles enter the body through breathing.
White blood cells, especially B and T lymphocytes, play an essential role in the immune defense and are exposed to radiation during their passage through the lymph and lungs. These leukocytes are extremely sensitive to ionizing radiation; doses of 0.1 gray (10 rad) can already block phagocytosis and induce the proliferation of infectious bacteria. In general, after irradiation, a significant decrease in the number of white blood cells (leukopenia) is observed, particularly in the T helper lymphocytes.
As soon as the explosions of American depleted uranium (DU) weapons occur, the airborne charge of radioactive dust will increase, and it is likely that the general immunity of the human race will decrease further, ...