- If I am correct, all these Libyans clambering over a destroyed tank are now fatally infected with depleted-uranium radiation
A humanitarian disaster is being staged in the Libyan desert by NATO troops
using depleted-uranium weaponry.
Having heard that DU weapons are being used by NATO to take out Mouammar Gaddafi's tanks, I recall why Afghanis have come to hate their American "rescuers" with a loathing not reserved for Russian invaders.
When their babies were born deformed, the Afghani population woke up to the damage caused by depleted uranium.
Here is Jooma Khan of Laghman Province, who realized why his grandson was born deformed and what this meant for his future and the future of his country.
While Jooma does not name depleted uranium as the source of the scourge, he does know he is the victim of an "invisible genocide brought on us by America."
"After the Americans destroyed our village and killed many of us, we also lost our houses and have nothing to eat. However, we would have endured these miseries and even accepted them, if the Americans had not sentenced us all to death.
"When I saw my deformed grandson, I realized that my hopes of the future have vanished for good, different from the hopelessness of the Russian barbarism, even though at that time I lost my older son Shafiqullah.
"This time, however, I know we are part of the invisible genocide brought on us by America, a silent death from which I know we will not escape." (1)
Child deformed by depleted uranium
In the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in 1991, Steve Fetter and Frank
Von Hippel from the Uranium Medical Research Center (UMRC), Washington
DC, reported on extensive research by "Field' teams of the UMRC in
Afghanistan. The testimony of fathers and mothers is horrifying and
explains to us why Afghanis hate us more than the Taliban:
"What else do the Americans want? They killed us. They turned our new-borns into horrific deformations. And they turned our farm lands into grave-yards, and destroyed our homes. On top of all this their planes fly over and spray us with bullets. We have nothing to lose. We will fight them the same way we fought the previous invader." (2)
Let's consider what happened in the war of redemption that the allies fought in Yugoslavia. There too they used depleted-uranium weapons and turned the Bosnian landscape into a graveyard. Reports Michel Chossudovsky:
"The bombing of Yugoslavia is best described as a 'low intensity nuclear war' using toxic radioactive shells and missiles. Amply documented, the radioactive fall-out potentially puts millions of people at risk throughout the Balkans.
"In March 1999, NATO launched the air raids invoking broad humanitarian principles and ideals. NATO had 'come to the rescue' of ethnic Albanian Kosovars on the grounds they were being massacred by Serb forces. The forensic reports by the FBI and Europol confirm that the massacres did not occur. In a cruel irony, Albanian Kosovar civilians are among the main victims of DU radiation. (3)
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