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The Lebanon Crime
The Cedars of Lebanon Weep. These trees who have seen so much suffering, so much destruction, so much death. Now they weep for the children of Lebanon as the depleted uranium bombs and shells fall and spread their death across the land, the people, the future. Pray for Lebanon. As the Israeli bombs exploded a darkness and death that cannot be seen fell across the land, drifting on the wind. The Depleted Uranium weapons used in the Lebanon war will be felt by future generations of Lebanese children in a most horrible way. After all the destruction of the Lebanon civil war a new horror has arrived brought by Zionist DU bombs and shells. From July 12 to August 14 2006 the Jews pounded Lebanon with over 177,000 missiles, bombs, 5 ton bunker buster bombs, cluster bombs and artillery. The Lebanese resistance fired about 4,000 rockets in retaliation. The Jews destroyed some 15,000 homes with their bombing. Hospitals, supermarkets water treatment plants churches and mosques were targeted in Southern Lebanon. In Beirut they targeted oil refineries, milk, food and pharmaceutical factories. It is not known how many tons of depleted uranium were used on Lebanon by the Jews. DEPLETED
URANIUM: THE CHILD KILLER
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
Depleted
Uranium (U-238)
is used in shells for its armor penetration and
destructive power. When a round of Depleted
Uranium hits a target up to 70% of the round can burn up
during impact and penetration. This creates a
firestorm of Depleted Uranium oxide particles of
extremely fine ceramic uranium dust (some finer than
military gas mask filters) that is spread by the wind,
inhaled and absorbed into the human and animal bodies
and is taken up by plants and animals, becoming part of
the food chain. According to the U N's
Environmental Program any portion of the round leftover
in the soil can can pollute the environment and create
up to a hundredfold increase in uranium levels in ground
water. The Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
reported the critical population group affected is
children playing with soil with inhalation and/or
ingestion of contaminated soil as the critical pathway
into the body. In May-June 2003 issue of E: The
Environmental Magazine Ed Ericson wrote "the Pentagon
has cashiered or attempted to discredit its own experts,
ignored their advice, impeached scientific research into
DUs health effects and assembled a disinformation
campaign to confuse the issue. Soldiers in the US
and Brittan who handle Depleted Uranium ammunition are
required by military regulations to wear gloves and
masks. DU is certainly a weapon of mass
destruction (WMD).
Some 300 tons of Depleted Uranium were used by coalition
forces in southern Iraq in 1991. Ten years ater the war,
DU shell holes are still 1,000 times more radioactive
than the normal level of background radiation and
the areas around the shell holes are still 100
times more radioactive. Experts say that the fine
uranium dust produced by the shells has spread by the
wind, contaminating large areas of the surrounding
region, including the city of Basra, which is 200
kilometres away from sites where large numbers of DU
shells were fired.
Between 1,000 and 3,000 tons of Depleted Uranium
was used during the three-week war in Iraq in 2003 with
a considerable part of it used in the cities.
There was wholesale bombardment of targets inside
densely-populated areas. Journalist Scott Peterson from
the Christian Science Monitor used a simple Geiger
counter to measure levels that at times reached 1,900
times the normal background rate in parts of Baghdad in
May 2003. The city has a population of six million.
It took 2 to 4 years for the rise in cancers in Iraq to
become evident after Gulf War 1. By the end of the
decade there will be another explosion of cancers in the
Iraqi population with children making up a significant
number of those to die of cancer. And a few years
from now the same in Lebanon.
Total US casualties on disability from Gulf War 1 are up to 500,000.
When will it end?
These statistics will be repeated among those returning
home from the current Iraqi war. These statistics
will be repeated wherever these weapons are used.
Speak out now!! Depleted Uranium is a war crime and a crime against
humanity.
Ask yourself, what did these children do to deserve this? These photos are from children in Iraq 
  DEPLETED URANIUM BURNING, AN ETERNAL MEDICAL DISASTER
In Volume 2 of the
Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health, under uranium alloys
and compounds, page 2238, it reads:
PENTAGON POISON"When the 1991 war started, Dr. Doug Rokke, a Vietnam veteran, forensic scientist and retired army major, was recalled from academia and sent to the Gulf as part of the army's Depleted Uranium Assessment team. "The US Army made me their expert," he says. "I went into the project with the total intent to ensure they could use uranium munitions in war, because I'm a warrior. What I saw as director of the project led me to one conclusion: uranium munitions must be banned from the planet, for eternity, and medical care must be provided for everyone" - those on the firing end and those on the receiving end. Many in Rokke's Gulf team are now dead. He himself suffers from serious health problems including brain lesions and lung and kidney damage. When government doctors finally agreed to test him in November 1994, three-and-a-half years after he fell ill, while he was director of the Pentagon's Depleted Uranium Project, he was found to have 5,000 times the permissible level of radiation in his body - enough to light up a small village. DU, he says, is the stuff of nightmares."
 RESEARCH
Were they soldiers?
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