“Depleted Uranium”, US Experiment in ME Fields
The United States of America has for quite some time been the pioneer in advanced technologies, discoveries, and even more, international crimes.
In almost most of the fields, the US has been a precedent to spread its sought domination, believing that it "owns the field". It has been revealed that the decades of dominating developments are based on numerous and "precedent" violations of international laws and regulations, therefore illustrating a vast freedom of indifferent US actions.
Again, like mother like daughter, the US has been following up and feeding the "Israeli" enemy throughout its "diplomatic and military" progress, of course on the same course of "international laws' violations".
It so happens that at the time when the Zionist scheme was implemented in occupying the sacred land of "Palestine" in the 1940s, another US scheme was launched with its nuclear weapons program. On this level, enriched uranium was first manufactured, and in that process, "unusable waste product" of "uranium hexafluoride", known as depleted uranium, was stored without any intentions to be exploited. Or were there?
The smoke emitted from charcoal exhaust is considered "waste", and it causes many environmental effects and health problems for humans. What if the waste is nuclear, and was exploited against residential areas?
After the international nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US sought to spread its nuclear waste disposal into the Middle East. Among the areas targeted by uranium in the Middle East were Iraq, Gaza, and Lebanon.
It started in 1991, in the US Operation Desert Storm against Iraq to allegedly liberate Kuwait; other words for "interfering in the Middle Eastern affairs".
Years after that war, another attack was staged on Iraq in 2003, precisely on the Iraqi town of Fallujah, this time with a bigger and more developed impact. The effects cannot be easily described or even identified, because there are some cases which haven\'t been witnessed before in the history of war repercussions.
The DU is a phantom stalking the people living in the contaminated areas, where many effects were available for the naked eye.
On this level, Italian Scientist Paola Manduca, Professor of Genetics at the University of Genoa, affirmed that "various pathologies are reported in the countries attacked with DU weaponry and augmented metal weapons, including immunologic, respiratory, neurologic, cancers and malformation at birth and also in the military and civilian personnel that were involved in the use or delivery of the weapons".
In an interview with moqawama.org, Manduca stated, "All substances are not eliminated from the environment, but they accumulate in living organisms, therefore continue to be assumed, and go directly through the food chain."
Noting the long-term or even far-term effect of the weaponry, Manduca clarified, "It causes effects that have a time lag, and with an extent that depends on amounts and modalities of assumption. The effect can be remote from the first event that dispersed them in the environment, and potentially the damage increases with time".
She then highlighted the US DU attack on Fallujah, narrating, "We found that in Fallujah the increase in birth defects was not immediate after the bombings in 2004-2005, it started about 1-2 years later but steadily continues to rise in time up to 14% incidence in 2010. This is on line with the accumulation of the metals and correlated with the high metal load that Fallujah people have".
Regarding the effects of the DU use on future generations, the Italian Geneticist explained that the metals used and left behind after the DU attacks, are weak mutagenic agents that produce mutations, cancer, and malformations.
Manduca further explained that "the derivatives of Uranium are also radioactive and can produce mutations through the decay of the radioactivity, acting directly as break agents on DNA".
Elaborating on the uranium effect on "unborn" generations, Professor Paola Manduca stressed, "The most important fact is that all the metals found in the modern weaponry are highly carcinogenic and affect the fetal development also, and with the highest effect not through direct mutations in DNA but altering the modalities of its expression, an effect called epigenetic [resulting from external rather than genetic influences]".
"Recently it became clear that also this last kind of effects can propagate in generations, it becomes inherited or even "fixed"", Professor Manduca also interpreted.
This has been highly detected in Fallujah after the deliberate use of DU by the US army.
"About the treatment, considering the facts we know from the ground, there could be modalities to remediate the damage. Access to the people, structure to do the tests required, and individualized therapies can be designed", she said, adding that a more general prevention is also under study.
Tackling the attacks of Gaza, especially in light of the White Phosphorous (WP) exploitation in the 2008-2009 aggression on civilians, Manduca indicated that the studies in Gaza are still proceeding.
She however clarified that the lack of previous records makes it difficult to make comparison between the situation in Gaza and other contaminated areas; yet she affirmed that the situation is not as dramatic as in Fallujah.
"Nonetheless the local medical personnel indicate that there may be an increase in birth defects and cancers. Now continuous monitoring is being implemented. One thing has already emerged is that the frequency of malformed babies is significantly higher among couples exposed to WP or bombing", Manduca said.
Backing the indication that weaponry metals and substances caused abnormality in the course of nature, Manduca reported, "The other aspect that indicated an environmental effect is that the malformations are in at least half of the cases not present in the extended families, so they are novel events occurring in the couple and not the result of preexisting mutations or of intermarriage".
"All these weaponry and their discriminate use on civilians is outside all the international laws", she emphasized.
"I do not think of it as a matter of opinion, but facts", Paola Manduca reiterated.
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Fact is the concern that the future of human existence is at stake due to the deliberate and indifferent use of destructive and carcinogenic wastes.
In a study he had conducted directly after the "Israeli" July 2006 aggression on Lebanon, Physician and independent researcher Mohammad Ali Kobeissi indicated the use of depleted uranium in "Israeli" weaponry.
With the help of the Green Line Organization in his fact-finding research, he detected the biggest uranium radiation in the southern village of Khiyam, where high levels of alpha particles were indicated. It's worth mentioning that alpha "uranium" particles are highly destructive to human cells when at contact, not to mention the long-term damages they cause to the surrounding areas.
The soil has lost its fertility, and so have some people. A scary number of miscarriages were reported in the Lebanese southern area, where the most rage of weapons was dropped.
The Lebanese case scenario is so far not as scary as those in Iraq and Gaza, but on the long run, Lebanon should be ready to expect additional repercussions of the enemy phantom chasing it.
Source: moqawama.org
