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NEWS ... GLBAL NEWS ... http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/ DEPLETED URANIUM FROM GULF WAR II DETECTED IN energy/htm7.html. ATMOSPHERE AND AIR FILTERS IN BRITAIN Jones, who conducts research in fusion lhe UK Sunday Times Online (19 February) reported on a shocking scientific study and solar energy at BYU, is calling for an authored by British scientists Dr Chris Busby and Saoirse Morgan: "Did the Use of independent, international scientific | Uranium Weapons in Gulf War 2 result in Contamination of Europe? Evidence from investigation "guided not by politicized the measurements of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), Aldermaston, notions and constraints but rather by | Berkshire, UK". The highest levels of depleted uranium ever measured in the atmos- observations and calculations". phere in Britain were transported on air currents from the Middle East and Central Asia. "It is quite plausible that explosives were — | Of special significance were those from the Tora Bora bombing in Afghanistan in 2001, pre-planted in all three buildings and set | and the "Shock and Awe" bombing during Gulf War II in Iraq in 2003. off after the two plane crashes—which The Atomic Weapons Establishment was established years ago to measure radioactive were actually a diversion tactic," he writes. | emissions from British nuclear power plants and atomic weapons facilities. Three years "Muslims are (probably) not to blame for ago it was taken over by Halliburton, which refused at first to release air monitoring bringing down the WTC buildings after data, as required by law, to Dr Busby. An international expert on low-level radiation, all, Jones adds. . . Busby serves as an official adviser on several British government committees, and co- As for speculation about who might have authored an independent report on low-level radiation with 45 scientists, the European planted the explosives, Jones Says: T don't Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR), for the European Parliament. He was finally usually 50 there. There sno point 1n doing able to get Aldermaston air monitoring data from Halliburton/AWE by filing a Freedom tne until we do the scientific eine thea of Information request using a new British law which became effective on | January of FEMA, the o/14 Commicton ani NIST 2005—but still the data for 2003 were missing. He eventually obtained the 2003 data (the National Institute of Standards and icomdio Watters Poems Agency. . . Technology) ignored the physics and The fact that the air monitoring data was circulated by Halliburton/AWE to the chemistry of what happened on September Defence Procurement Agency implies that it was considered to be relevant, and that Dr 11. 2001. to the Twin Towers and the 47- Busby was stonewalled because Halliburton/AWE clearly recognised that it was a seri- storey buil ding known as WTC7, he says ous enough matter to justify a government interpretation of the results, and official deci- The official expla ° ti the t fi e sions had to be made about what the data would show and their political implications for planation at fires |. military. buildings te collapse can't be backed up In a similar circumstance in 1992, Major Doug Rokke, the director of the US Army by either testing or history, he says. Depleted Uranium Cleanup Project after Gulf War I, was ordered by a US Army general (Source: Deseret Morning News, 10 to write a no-bid contract, "Depleted Uranium, Contaminated Equipment, and Facilities November 2005, hitp:/Ideseretnews.com) Recovery Plan Outline", for the procedures for cleaning up Kuwait, including depleted , uranium, for Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), a subsidiary of Halliburton. The PRE-PACKAGED MEATS contract/proposal was passed through Madeleine Albright, the secretary of state, to the DOSED TO LOOK "ROSIER" Emirate of Kuwait, which considered the terms and then hired KBR for the cleanup. Aldermaston is one of many nuclear facilities throughout Europe that regularly moni- tor levels of radiation transported by atmospheric sand and dust storms or air currents from radiation sources in North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. After the "Shock and Awe" campaign in Iraq in 2003, very fine particles of depleted uranium atmosphere packaging" replaces the | Were captured with larger sand and dust particles in filters in Britain. These particles oxygen inside with other gases, especially travelled in seven to nine days from Iraqi battlefields as far as 2,400 miles away. The carbon monoxide. Doing so makes the _ | fadiation measured in the atmosphere quadrupled within a few weeks of the beginning S permarkets are trimming out their in- store butchers and buying pre-packaged cuts direct from the processing plants. The increasingly widespread use of "modified meat "rosier". of the 2003 campaign, and at one of the five monitoring locations the levels twice Customers buy meat mainly on how it required an official alert to the British Environment Agency. looks. Better-looking meat has a longer In addition to depleted uranium data gathered in previous studies on Kosovo and purchasability. Bosnia by Dr Busby, the Aldermaston air monitoring data provide a continuous record Among the bigger supermarkets reported of depleted uranium levels in Britain from other recent wars. to be carrying the treated meat are Extensive video news footage of the 2003 Iraq war, including Fallujah in 2004, pro- Safeway, SuperTarget and WalMart. vides irrefutable documented evidence that the US has unethically and illegally used "Michael Doyle, director of the Center depleted uranium munitions on cities and other civilian populations. These military for Food Safety at the University of actions are in direct violation not only of international conventions but also of US mili- Georgia, says one study found that when _| tary law because the US is a signatory to The Hague and Geneva Conventions and the meat in modified packages that included | 1925 Geneva Gas Protocol. Depleted uranium weaponry meets the definition of a carbon monoxide was stored at 10 degrees weapon of mass destruction (WMD) in two out of three categories under US Code Title above the proper temperature, salmonella | 50, Chapter 40 Section 2302. grew more easily." "This research shows that rather than remaining near the target as claimed by the mili- (Source: The Consumerist, 23 February _ | tary, depleted uranium weapons contaminate both locals and whole populations hun- 2006, http://www.consumerist.com/ _| dreds to thousands of miles away," Dr Busby said. consumer/butchers/storebought-meats- | (Sources: "The Queen's Death Star" by Leuren Moret, 26 February 2006; The Sunday dosed-to-look-red-156237.php) Times Online, UK, 19 February 2006) http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/ energy/htm7.html. Jones, who conducts research in fusion and solar energy at BYU, is calling for an independent, international scientific investigation "guided not by politicized notions and constraints but rather by observations and calculations". "It is quite plausible that explosives were pre-planted in all three buildings and set off after the two plane crashes—which were actually a diversion tactic," he writes. "Muslims are (probably) not to blame for bringing down the WTC buildings after all," Jones adds. As for speculation about who might have planted the explosives, Jones says: “I don't usually go there. There's no point in doing that until we do the scientific investigation." Previous investigations, including those of FEMA, the 9/11 Commission and NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology), ignored the physics and chemistry of what happened on September 11, 2001, to the Twin Towers and the 47- storey building known as WTC7, he says. The official explanation—that fires caused structural damage that caused the buildings to collapse—can't be backed up by either testing or history, he says. (Source: Deseret Morning News, 10 November 2005, http://deseretnews.com) PRE-PACKAGED MEATS DOSED TO LOOK "ROSIER" S permarkets are trimming out their in- store butchers and buying pre-packaged cuts direct from the processing plants. The increasingly widespread use of "modified atmosphere packaging" replaces the oxygen inside with other gases, especially carbon monoxide. Doing so makes the meat "rosier". Customers buy meat mainly on how it looks. Better-looking meat has a longer purchasability. Among the bigger supermarkets reported to be carrying the treated meat are Safeway, SuperTarget and WalMart. "Michael Doyle, director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia, says one study found that when meat in modified packages that included carbon monoxide was stored at 10 degrees above the proper temperature, salmonella grew more easily." (Source: The Consumerist, 23 February 2006, —http://www.consumerist.com/ consumer/butchers/storebought-meats- dosed-to-look-red-156237.php) APRIL — MAY 2006 NEXUS +9 www.nexusmagazine.com