[lbo-talk] DU in GIs

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Apr 5 14:58:55 PDT 2004


[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>]

DEPLETED URANIUM FOUND IN TROOPS http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/180333p-156685c.html

JUAN GONZALEZ, NY DAILY NEWS - Four soldiers from a New York Army National Guard company serving in Iraq are contaminated with radiation likely caused by dust from depleted uranium shells fired by U.S. troops, a Daily News investigation has found. They are among several members of the same company, the 442nd Military Police, who say they have been battling persistent physical ailments that began last summer in the Iraqi town of Samawah. . . A nuclear medicine expert who examined and tested nine soldiers from the company says that four "almost certainly" inhaled radioactive dust from exploded American shells manufactured with depleted uranium. Laboratory tests conducted at the request of The News revealed traces of two manmade forms of uranium in urine samples from four of the soldiers.



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