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Home / Society / Issues / Warfare and Conflict / Weapons / Ordnance / Depleted Uranium / Used in Iraq
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- Benjamin Committee for Iraq - Working to end the suffering of the people of Iraq. Concerned with the impact of radioactivity on the Iraqi population as a result of the use of weapons with depleted uranium during the Gulf War.
www.benjaminforiraq.org
- Depleted Uranium and Health - Laka foundation brochure concerning the hazardous impact of DU contamination and its consequences on human health and the environment. Discuses the implications for post war Iraq.
www.rimbaud.freeserve.co.uk/dhap99f.html
- Depleted Uranium in the Persian Gulf War - Collection of articles depicting the usuage of Depleted Uranium tipped weapons during the Persian Gulf War.
www.geocities.com/iraqinfo/gulfwar/du.html
- Discounted Casualties - The human cost of depleted uranium. People exposed to depleted uranium and other toxic substances during the Gulf War are now tormented by leukemia and a whole array of chronic disorders. Chugoku Shimbun.
www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/index_e.html
- Does Iraq's Depleted Uranium Pose a Health Risk? - Key points of a literature review. The Lancet.
www.ex-parrot.com/casi/discuss/1999/246.html
- Environmental Pollution Resulting from the Use of Depleted Uranium Missiles during the Aggression against Iraq - Study submitted by the government of the Republic of Iraq to the United Nations.
www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/E.CN.4.Sub.2.2000.37.En
- Environmental Ruin in Iraq - Iraq Action Coalition information on the effects of the sanctions and military war on the environment. Provides information on depleted uranium.
iraqaction.org/oldsite/environment.html
- Extreme Birth Deformities in Iraq - Photographs, stories and analysis of extreme birth deformities in Iraq as a result of the use of depleted uranium in weapons by US and Allied forces in the 1991 Gulf War. Warning: images of deformed children are extremely graphic and disturbing.
www.wakefieldcam.freeserve.co.uk/extremedeformities.htm
- Gulf War Shells Could be Causing Children's Cancers - An increase in rates of cancer in children born in Iraq has led to fears that weapons used in the Gulf War may in some way be responsible. BBC News.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_70000/70029.stm
- Pentagon Poison: The Great Radioactive Ammo Cover-Up - Rounds made of depleted uranium have exposed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of G.I.s to radiation without warning -- here's evidence the army knew the danger. [The Nation Online]
www.thenation.com/issue/970526/0526mesl.htm
- South Movement No Nukes - Depleted uranium in Iraq: dead children and sick soldiers.
southmovement.alphalink.com.au/antiwar
- UNHCR: Human Rights and Toxics: Depleted Uranium and the Gulf War - Official evidence from the International Educational Development/Humanitarian Law Project that the US did use Depleted Uranium in the gulf war and that "Scientific studies indicate if as much as one small particle (<5 microns in diameter) enters the lungs, the lungs and surrounding tissue will be exposed to 270 times the radiation permitted for workers in the radiation industry."
www.webcom.com/hrin/parker/c97-5w.html
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