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17.03.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX - Deadly dust - use of uranium ammunition and the consequences

Article by Frieder Wagner www.anti-imperialista.org

After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it seemed people realized what a terrible catastrophe they had unleashed. They had learned insistently that the ionizing radiation from this bomb could very quickly mean the end of mankind.

This is how the so-called balance of terror between atomic and hydrogen bombs came about. The terrifying certainty of mutual annihilation became a vague guarantee of non-use of these deadly weapons. At the same time, however, the rate of leukemia in young children was increasing at a worrying rate worldwide. And it didn't return to more normal levels until major powers agreed to end surface nuclear and hydrogen bomb tests.

At the same time, nuclear power plants and fast breeder reactors had started to be built in all industrialized nations because we were told that they would generate clean electricity and that the reprocessing of the fuel rods for the nuclear power plants was a never-ending cycle. The Chernobyl disaster should have given these proponents better insights. After Chernobyl, many of them will still remember the images of deformed children and animals that were born after this catastrophe and are still being born today: Babies without eyes, without legs and arms, babies with their internal organs all in one Wear skin sack on outside of body. All these poor creatures lived only a few hours in excruciating pain. I had to see such images, such terrible deformities again when I visited Iraq, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo for a television film and later for a cinema documentary. The cause of these deformities and of highly aggressive forms of cancer and leukemia in these countries is no longer the Chernobyl catastrophe, but the use of uranium ammunition and uranium bombs by the Allied forces in the past five wars, some of which violated international law.

Uranium ammunition and uranium bombs are probably the most terrible weapons used in wars today because they inevitably lead mankind into the abyss. Uranium projectiles and bombs are made from a by-product of the nuclear industry. If fuel rods for nuclear power plants weighing one ton are made from natural uranium, around eight tons of so-called depleted uranium 238 are produced as a waste product. There are now around 1,3 million tons of it worldwide and the number is increasing every day. And since this waste product, depleted uranium as an alpha emitter, is also radioactive and highly toxic and has a half-life of 4,5 billion years, it has to be stored and guarded accordingly, and that costs money – a lot of money.

So the question immediately arose: How do you get rid of this radioactive and highly toxic stuff? Then, about 40 years ago, the weapons developers in the military discovered that this metal, which can be had very cheaply as a waste product, has two very excellent properties for military purposes: if you shape this metal into a pointed rod and accelerate it accordingly, then it penetrates due to its enormous weight, it cuts steel and reinforced concrete like hot iron cuts butter. This creates abrasion on this depleted uranium metal rod, which ignites by itself due to the enormous frictional heat. This means that if such a projectile welds through a tank in fractions of a second, the depleted uranium ignites explosively by itself and the soldiers in the tank burn up at temperatures of 3000 - 5000 degrees Celsius. Due to these high temperatures, the ammunition in the tank and the petrol explode after a short delay, completely destroying the tank. That is, because of these two properties: penetrating steel and reinforced concrete like butter and the ability to explosively ignite itself and thus act like an explosive, the waste product "depleted uranium" is so popular with the military.

But that's not all: At temperatures of up to 5000 degrees Celsius, the uranium bullet burns to form ceramized water-insoluble nanoparticles that are 100 times smaller than a red blood cell. This means that a metal gas is practically produced and this metal gas is still radioactive and highly toxic. American military scientists are now also aware of the fact that these nanoparticles, whether inhaled or ingested, can migrate anywhere in the human or animal body: in all organs, i.e. in the brain, in the female egg cells and in the male semen. As early as 1997, depleted uranium was found in the semen of five out of 25 American veterans who had had uranium fragments in their bodies as a result of so-called “friendly fire” since the 1991 Gulf War! Wherever this uranium 238 is deposited in the body, the following symptoms can occur, and this has now been scientifically proven:

- a collapse of the immune system as in AIDS with increasing infectious diseases,

- severe functional disorders of the kidneys and liver,

- highly aggressive leukemias and other cancers,

- disorders in the bone marrow,

- as well as genetic defects and malformations with miscarriages and premature births in pregnant women, as we saw after the Chernobyl disaster.

That is, a particularly terrible consequence of the use of uranium weapons is that chromosome breaks occur in humans and animals as a result of ionizing radiation and the genetic code is thus altered. This has been a scientific fact for decades and the American biologist and geneticist Dr. Hermann Joseph Muller received the Nobel Prize for this in 1946. Nevertheless, the allied forces led by the USA in past wars, such as e.g. B. In Iraq, Serbia, Kosovo and Afghanistan they pretend that this fact does not exist. We now know from a confidential communication from the British Ministry of Defense that the use of as little as 40 tons of this uranium ammunition in a populated area can lead to 500.000 subsequent deaths from the resulting highly aggressive cancer tumors and leukemia.

Imagine if someone had the insane idea of ​​grinding 1000 tons of this nuclear waste product "depleted uranium" into fine dust and would then distribute this fine uranium dust from an airplane over Germany or Austria. That would be a terrible catastrophe. Football games should no longer take place, all stadiums and children's playgrounds would have to be closed and all outdoor events would have to be banned. No one should go out on the street without protective suits and gas masks - not even to go shopping. After a few weeks, thousands of young children would develop aggressive leukemia. Months later, 10-thousands of barely healthy adults would get cancer, later hundreds of thousands, years later millions. If you now say that luckily this is just a mind game on my part, then unfortunately I have to tell you:

Welcome to Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan, welcome to Serbia, Somalia and Lebanon. Because the Allies and NATO have used these depleted uranium weapons in all their past wars in these countries, including in Libya. With the result that in these countries adults are suffering from multiple cancers and babies are born without eyes, without legs and arms, babies who carry their internal organs in a skin sac on the outside of the body and then die in terrible pain.

The world-renowned radiation biologist Rosalie Bertell, who has already advised the federal government on the matter of the Kalkar fast breeder, says about the problem of "depleted uranium in weapons", quote:

“It is scientifically undisputed that the depleted uranium produces an invisible, dangerous metal smoke when burned at temperatures of up to 5000 degrees Celsius. This alone constitutes a violation of the Geneva Protocol prohibiting the use of gas in war, because metal smoke from uranium nanoparticles is equivalent to a gas" end of quote.

And Rosalie Bertell agrees with other renowned scientists that e.g. E.g. in Iraq, where around 2003 tons of uranium projectiles were used in the 2000 war alone, in the next 15-20 years around 5-7 million people will die as a result of the use of these uranium weapons, namely cancer and aggressive leukemia - that would be a knowingly and willingly induced genocide. And those responsible for this war that violates international law, which of course, like the Kosovo and the last Iraq war, began with lies, the American ex-President George W. Bush and the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, both actually belong before the international war crimes tribunal because of these war crimes to The Hague. In 2003, the then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan declared the Iraq war illegal, i.e. contrary to international law. And the German Federal Administrative Court classified this war in 2005 as contrary to international law. Nevertheless, this had no consequences, although according to the independent American-Iraqi "Lancet study" there were already 2006 civilian casualties up to 600.000 alone, most of them killed by US troops. And the British opinion research institute ORB, which is also independent (Opinion Research Business) determined in 2008 that by then more than 1 million people had died in Iraq, 1 million were injured and almost 5 million were displaced as we now know only too well.

Due to the use of this uranium ammunition, entire regions in Iraq, Kosovo and of course in Afghanistan are no longer habitable because of the radioactive and highly toxic contamination from these uranium weapons. This was confirmed last year by a release by the Iraqi Press Agency, which said that research by independent Iraqi scientists found that uranium bombing by Allied forces in the 1991 and 2003 wars left 18 regions uninhabitable in Iraq today and that therefore the population there would have to be evacuated.

And you don't read that in any newspaper here and you don't find out about it from the TV media either, because the subject of "uranium ammunition and the consequences" has become a taboo subject. Because the much-discussed climate catastrophe is not the most uncomfortable truth, no, the most uncomfortable truth is the terrible consequences of uranium ammunition. I predict here at this point and I agree with many independent scientists worldwide that of our thousands of soldiers deployed in Kosovo and Afghanistan and that applies to all soldiers stationed there, possibly up to 30% will come home contaminated by uranium dust. And these young soldiers will all father children with their wives and future wives and will unknowingly pass on their contamination to their children and grandchildren, with all the terrible consequences of deformities, immunodeficiency, leukemia and cancerous tumors - also in their offspring.

It was the parliamentary group "Die Linke" that asked the federal government in 2008 with a list of questions about the consequences of uranium ammunition. The then Minister of State Gernot Erler from the SPD answered these questions on behalf of the federal government. One of the questions was whether the Federal Government has any information about the use of uranium ammunition in Afghanistan since 2001 and whether the Allies are informing us accordingly?

Minister of State Gernot Erler replied verbatim:

"The Federal Government has no information of its own regarding possible locations or times of use of ammunition with depleted uranium in Afghanistan since 2001" and:

“The federal government will not be notified of the use of ammunition with depleted uranium. The Allies are not obligated to provide information on this.” End of quote.

But then how do I have to understand an instruction that was sent to me as a copy and which is declared as "CLASSIFIED - FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY" and comes from the Ministry of Defense in 2003. On page 25 it says:

1.3.3 Exposure to DU Munitions

"In Operation Enduring Freedom" in support of the Northern Alliance against the Taleban regime, US fighter jets also used armor-piercing incendiary ammunition with a uranium core.

When using this ammunition against hard targets (e.g. tanks, motor vehicles), the uranium ignites due to its pyrophoric effect. During combustion, sedentary toxic dusts are created, especially on and in the targets, which can be whirled up at any time.

DU ammunition can therefore cause toxic and radiological damage to unprotected personnel:

+ Danger of heavy metal poisoning

+ Danger from very weak radioactive sources (end of quote)

(Source: Author's archive and: bandepleteduranium.org)

- Unfortunately, this website no longer exists. -

This paper proves that the Minister of State at the time, Gernot Erler, lied to Parliament, the Speaker of Parliament and us the people when he said that the Federal Government had no information on possible locations where uranium munitions were used in Afghanistan since 2001.

On October 90, 7, the parliamentary group “Bündnis 2010/Die Grünen” also put a small question to the current federal government. In it, the Greens asked:

How does the Federal Government agree on its information on the lack of knowledge on the use of uranium ammunition in Afghanistan with the Bundeswehr's "Guide for Bundeswehr contingents in Afghanistan", which explicitly states that the US armed forces in the context of air support for the Northern Alliance during the Operation Enduring Freedom used DU munitions in 2001?

The yellow/black federal government responded, quoting:

"The inclusion of the mentioned passage in the guidelines served to raise awareness among the soldiers and was misleading in that it was apt to convey the impression that the Federal Government had its own information on the possible use of ammunition with depleted uranium in Afghanistan. The guide is no longer issued to the servicewomen and men. The “Military Country Information for Deployment Contingents in Afghanistan” issued in its place uses the clear and factually correct formulation: “It cannot be completely ruled out that armor-piercing ammunition with depleted uranium was used in Afghanistan in the course of Operation Enduring Freedom.” End of quote.

This example, ladies and gentlemen, shows how lax the federal government is in dealing with the issue and the dangers of uranium ammunition. I would therefore like to show you what an independent organization has found out about the effects of using this ammunition in Afghanistan.

In May 2002, the "Uranium Medical Research Center" dispatched. UMRC, an NGO from Canada led by Prof. Dr. Asaf Durakovic, a research team to Afghanistan. The UMRC team began its work by first identifying a few hundred people suffering from diseases or medical conditions that mirrored the clinical symptoms thought to be characteristic of radiation exposure.

To investigate whether these symptoms are the result of radiation sickness, urine and soil samples were collected and taken to an independent research laboratory in England. The UMRC research team quickly found an alarming number of Afghan civilians with acute symptoms of radioactive poisoning associated with chronic symptoms of internal uranium contamination, including birth defects. Local residents have reported large, dense, blue-black clouds of dust and smoke rising at impact sites during bombings since 2001, accompanied by an acrid odor, followed by burning sensations in the nasal cavities, throat and upper respiratory tract. The victims initially described pain in the upper cervical spine, upper shoulders, base of the skull, lower back pain, kidney pain, joint and muscle weakness, sleep disorders, headaches, memory problems and disorientation.

Two research groups were then sent to Afghanistan. The first focused on the Jalalabad region. The second followed four months later and expanded the study to include the capital, Kabul, with a population of almost 3,5 million. In the city itself, researchers found the highest recorded number of stationary targets fired upon during Operation Enduring Freedom in 2001. The team had expected to find traces of depleted uranium in the urine and soil samples they took. But the team was unprepared for the shock they received from the results.

Unlike Iraq, the UMRC laboratory tests in Afghanistan showed high concentrations of undepleted uranium - therefore the contamination was much higher than in the depleted uranium victims in Iraq. The people tested from Jalalabad and Kabul showed uranium concentrations 400% to 2000% higher than those found in normal populations - amounts never before measured in civilian studies. According to UMRC, a mixture of so-called “virgin uranium” and the waste from enrichment processes in nuclear reactors was used in Afghanistan, because uranium 236 was also found in all samples. Uranium 236 does not occur in nature and is only created in the reprocessing of fuel rods from nuclear power plants. This means that uranium ammunition from decommissioned fuel rods from nuclear power plants was also used in Afghanistan.

In August 2002, the UMRC team completed its preliminary analysis of the results from Afghanistan. Without exception, every person who provided a urine sample tested positive for uranium contamination. The specific results showed an alarmingly high level of contamination. Concentrations were 100 to 400 times higher than those found in Gulf War veterans tested by UMRC in Iraq back in 1999.

In the summer of 2003, the UMRC team returned to Afghanistan again to conduct a broader investigation. This resulted in a possibly even greater burden than initially assumed. About 30% of those interviewed in the affected areas showed symptoms of radiation sickness. Newborns were also among the symptom carriers, and village elders reported that over 25% of all children were unexplainedly ill.

According to the UMRC, Afghanistan was used as a test site for a new generation of bunker-busting uranium bombs in 2001, which contained high concentrations of all sorts of uranium alloys. The native Afghan living in the USA Prof. Dr. After a trip through Afghanistan, Mohammad Daud Miraki explained to me that he was taking seriously injured children to the hospitals, e.g. B. from Kabul and photographed and also filmed, who then died a few days after the birth in terrible pain and that everyone involved, like the doctors of these children and their parents, not only have to fear for their careers, but for their lives , if they participate in damage investigations that suggest a uranium weapon background. Specifically, Dr. Miraki to, Quote: "Parents do not want to give their names and those of their aggrieved children, and doctors do not want to be involved in such investigations." End of quote.

It appears that the hunt for a handful of terrorists like Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan at the time poisoned a vast, hitherto unknown number of innocent civilians, including a disproportionate number of children. According to expert estimates, the number of these contaminated people is in the tens of thousands, and will soon be in the hundreds of thousands. Similar numbers apply to Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo, where the Allies have also deployed tons of uranium munitions and bombs.

Of the 600,000 soldiers who z. For example, while they served in the first Gulf War in 1991 and came home apparently healthy, almost 30.000 have now died of strangely aggressive cancers and more than 325.000 soldiers are permanently disabled and unable to work, suffering from the so-called Gulf War Syndrome. This incredible number means that 56% of veterans today have medical problems. There are no figures for the large mass of the civilian population in the affected countries, especially Afghanistan and of course Iraq.

Meanwhile, neutral scientists among them Prof. Asaf Durakovic, the German doctor Prof. Dr. Siegwart-Horst Günther, the radiation biologist Rosalie Bertell, the Berlin chemist Prof.Dr. Albrecht Schott and the American scientist Dr. Leonard Dietz, but also American military scientists proved that uranium weapons are weapons of mass destruction that must be banned worldwide. Therefore, Germany would have to immediately declare, under international law, that it would renounce this military technology and draw up a global uranium non-proliferation treaty.

However, the Federal Republic will only do this if pressure is exerted. Because Prof. Albrecht Schott, the international law expert Prof. Manfred Mohr and I were invited to the Federal Foreign Office for the second time on June 1, 2010 for a 2-hour talk on "uranium weapons and the consequences". And there, after an intense conversation, even one of the great trivializers of uranium weapons, the then head of the Institute for Radiation Protection in Neuherberg near Munich, Prof. Dr. Herwig Paretzke, demanded an immediate ban because of the high toxicity of uranium weapons. But the moderator of the AA summarized - as a closing remark, so to speak - that our arguments against these weapons had indeed been very impressive, but, he then added, quote: "These are all just humanitarian arguments and you could use humanitarian arguments not come to the United States". Quote end. This shows that we are, unfortunately, vassals of the USA when it comes to these terrible weapons.

The press recently reported that around 10 German soldiers had been deployed in Afghanistan over the past 100.000 years. These soldiers were stationed in Kunduz, Feisalabad and Masar-i-Sharif. In a region that the Federal Government and the Ministry of Defense have long known, too, that uranium projectiles and bombs were used there by US warplanes in the fall of 2001 as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. Neutral scientists and doctors and also the NGO UMRC therefore fear that up to 30% of these German soldiers could have been contaminated with uranium nanoparticles, with all the terrible health consequences of immune deficiency, cancer, leukemia and genetic changes, also for their children and grandchildren . And the Afghan people? For them, say neutral scientists, the risk of contamination is about 1000 times higher, since they have to live there. That's why an Afghan father whose child was killed by an American bomb bitterly told a journalist: “We don't have planes, but we have something the Americans don't have, which is principles and ethics. We will never do anything to American children that remotely resembles what Americans have done to our children and to our families. They may still win some battles, but we have already won the big battle, the one for moral rights.”

In 1995, during the Bosnian War, the small Serbian town of Hadzici, 15 km from Sarajevo, was bombed with GBU 28 uranium bombs because the Serbs had a tank repair plant there. At that time, the Serbs suspected that the effects of the uranium bombs and projectiles used could still be life-threatening for the residents even after their use and resettled 3500 citizens from Hadzici to the distant mountain town of Bratunac. But it was too late, because many of these people had already become contaminated. In the following five years, 1112 of the resettled citizens from Hadzici died from aggressive cancer diseases. The British journalist Robert Fisk therefore rightly wrote in the English daily newspaper "Independent", quote: "One could have written on the gravestones of these people: died as a result of uranium ammunition", end of quote.

And what does our federal government say today about the uranium weapons problem? For more than 10 years she has been repeating in the Bundestag and in letters to members of parliament and concerned citizens that, quote: "To date, no investigation has found a scientifically verifiable causal connection between the use of depleted uranium in ammunition and the diseases associated with it in media reports resulted in” end of quote.

However, EUROMIL (European Organization of Military Associations), so to speak, the trade union of European soldiers, published a report from the Italian military health authority on March 22, 2007, which states that 109 Italian soldiers died after being exposed to depleted uranium in Iraq . The following statement is noteworthy in this publication, quote: “Only 3000 Italian soldiers were sent to Iraq and they only stayed there for a short time. The number of 109 irradiated soldiers corresponds to 3,6% of the total contingent. If the same percentage of Iraqis were exposed to comparable radiation, the death toll would be 936. However, since the Iraqis have to live permanently in the contaminated environment, the number of victims is likely to be much higher". Quote end. Source: "http://www.euromil.org".

 (http://euromil.org/?s=depleted+uranium)

So what conclusions do we have to draw from the fact that politicians are fooling us and even lying to us today?

In any case, in terms of uranium ammunition:

Since the Gulf War of 1991 and the Kosovo War of 1999, the dangers of uranium ammunition have been publicly accessible and known to the Federal Government, as well as to our politicians then and now. Who therefore 2003 such. B. Our current Federal Chancellor voted for the third Gulf War, not only voted for a war that violates international law, he was also knowingly and willingly in favor of the possible war crime of uranium ammunition. In Germany in 2003, many high-ranking personalities and politicians who are now in government positions spoke out in favor of this Gulf War. You cannot now retreat to the fact that you did not know anything about the inevitable use of uranium ammunition and the consequences in today's armed conflict. And they will one day have to answer for the consequences, and you know our Chancellor is a physicist!

The American scientist John W. Gofman, who worked on the development of the Hiroshima bomb and was also a doctor, wrote as early as 1979 - after he had recognized the devastating problem of low alpha radiation, in an open letter, mind you, 1979, long before that discussed here about depleted uranium and its consequences, Gofman wrote, quoting:

"I think that at least 100 scientists who have studied the biomedical aspects of low-level radiation - myself, Gofman, included - are candidates for a Nuremberg-style court because they and I, with their great negligence and irresponsibility, committed crimes against humanity because now that the dangers of low-alpha radiation are known, this isn't just an experiment we did, it's murder." (Source: Quoted from the book by John W. Gofman, 1990: "Radiation Induced Cancer from Low-Dose Exposures" and in a 1979 open letter to peers and: Letter of Concern, May 11, 1999 - University of California, Berkeley ).

If our government describes itself today as a friend of the American government, then it should have the courage, precisely as a friend, to tell an allied friend that by using such uranium weapons, he is not only committing an irreparable mistake to people and the environment, but a war crime and such a war crime must be punished accordingly, also and especially by our government.

I therefore come to the following conclusion:

Recent and especially independent research has provided sufficient evidence that people who have ingested uranium depleted by uranium aerosols from such weapons, be they soldiers or civilians, but especially children and young people, pose a serious risk to their health and their health are exposed to life, especially in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Serbia, but now also worldwide, as these aerosols are carried around the world by the atmospheric winds.

That alone is enough to demand a ban on the use of uranium weapons from the governments of the world, i.e. in the UN and in the UN Security Council, but of course also in our parliament. Because no power in the world has the right to make entire regions uninhabitable in its autocratically chosen theaters of war and to poison and kill people long after the end of the hostilities. Because that is a war crime according to the Hague and Geneva Conventions. The verdict of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal states, quote: "The unleashing of a war of aggression is the greatest international crime, which differs from other war crimes in that it combines and accumulates all the horrors of a war", end of quote.

And what does the WHO, the World Health Organization, say?

When the so-called Balkan Syndrome hit the headlines in January 2001, the WHO was content to publish a four-page elaboration (Fact Sheet No. 257) which purportedly summarized all the essentials on the subject. But this text should above all reassure the public, because it only contains very general information, and where it gets more specific, contradictions to the current scientific knowledge arise. It says there that the radiation, if it occurs at all, does not exceed the permissible limit values: "From a scientific point of view, it therefore seems unlikely that there is evidence of an increased susceptibility to leukemia among military personnel in Kosovo through contact with DU."

How can the WHO write something like that? Well, the explanation is simple: the World Health Organization signed an agreement with the International Atomic Energy Commission (IAEA) back in 1959 that allows it to deal with radiation and health issues only with the approval of the IAEA. The agreement with the IAEA reads: "If either party wishes to embark on an activity or program in an area which is or may be of interest to the other party, it will consult the other party to discuss the relevant to settle the matter amicably." Quote end.

It is precisely this obligation to an "amicable settlement" that has since allowed the IAEA to prevent almost all efforts by the WHO to investigate possible connections between radiation and diseases in the population. This also explains why the planned publication of a background report on the issue of depleted uranium by the WHO did not come about. Only when depleted uranium hit the headlines of the international media in 2000-2001 did the WHO announce that this study would now also examine the radiation aspect. This additional task should be entrusted to experts from the UK's Nuclear Radiation Protection Board and - of course - the International Atomic Energy Commission. Since then, however, the humanitarian aid organizations working in Kosovo have been waiting for results.

That so-called independent WHO investigations are not independent was made clear by a publication and press conference by WHO radiation expert Dr. Keith Baverstock, February 2004:

In a 2001 WHO study, Baverstock and his co-authors drew attention to the fact that airborne dust containing uranium aerosols, such as those found in certain places in southern Iraq and Afghanistan, but also in Serbia and Kosovo, are both radioactive harmful and chemically highly toxic. According to Baverstock, the WHO study, which was suppressed at the time and ended in autumn 2001, "could have put pressure on the USA and Great Britain and certainly curbed the use of uranium weapons". Baverstock verbatim, quote: "The result of our study is that the extensive use of uranium weapons z. For example, in Iraq, it poses a unique threat to the health of civilians. We have increasing scientific evidence that radiological activity and chemical toxicity causes more damage to human cells than we previously thought. DU is an alpha emitter and at the same time has a high chemical toxicity. Both effects in their interaction can produce a "cocktail effect" that is responsible for the increase in cancer risk." End of quote.

This study by Baverstock disappeared in the WHO's "poison closet" and since then the WHO has said about Keith Baverstock "he would tell fairy tales". However, since this scientist still has good friends in the WHO, we know today and Keith Baverstock said this very clearly on December 04.12.2008th, 2 in a Bavarian radio broadcast (BR 16) that there are now XNUMX excellent studies in the WHO on how dangerous to use uranium bullets, but all of these studies have disappeared into the World Health Organization's "poison closet" - it's unbelievable.

Up until 2001, the European media actually did a good job of explaining things about uranium weapons. The Allies, especially the USA and the British government, ran the risk that sooner or later they would be pointed at for ethical - moral reasons. In the USA, some lawyers had also filed class action lawsuits against the American government, in which more than 600 Gulf War veterans who had fathered severely deformed children are suing for billions in compensation payments. It has become so clear to those responsible at the Pentagon that, unlike the climate catastrophe, this is not about a problem that all industrialized countries on earth have caused, but about the consequences that threaten the world and people through the use of uranium weapons , only they are responsible with their ally Great Britain. So the topic of uranium weapons had to disappear from the media. Fifteen years ago, I would not have thought it possible that our press would also bow to this.

Because right is above might. The law of the Hague and Geneva Conventions, the Nuremberg Decrees, and the UN Charter must guide power and teach it to respect fundamental values. Peace cannot be built on poverty and oppression, war and bombs, mutilated, malformed and killed women and children - not in Iraq, not in Afghanistan, not in Somalia, not in Gaza and also not in Libya and Syria - nowhere. "Every day the West sinks deeper and deeper into the swamp of its own politics. Not once in the last 200 years has a Muslim country attacked the West. The great European powers and the USA have always been the aggressors. Not the violence of the Muslims, but the violence of the West is the problem of our time," says Jürgen Todenhöfer, who was a member of the CDU for 18 years. Unfortunately, nothing has changed in this regard under US President Obama. Because he obviously lied when he said at his Nobel Prize ceremony that he was confirming America's obligation to abide by the Geneva Conventions. The United States has broken and trampled on the Geneva Conventions time and time again over the last six decades alone - particularly in the last few years on uranium weapons.

That's why we have to make it clear to our members of parliament, through appropriate speeches, letters, e-mails and personal conversations, what responsibility they bear when they send more soldiers to Afghanistan or other war zones.

We must make them understand that when these soldiers come home dead, injured, traumatized, or contaminated by uranium weapons, they are responsible.

We must make it clear to them that we will hold such politicians accountable if one day these soldiers become ill or children are born deformed because of the uranium ammunition.

We have to make it clear to them that the future of our children and this earth is at stake. We have to make it clear to them that we want nothing to do with cynics in power like the USA and their wars.

Thank you

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