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Call me J.R. wrote:
> 
> Subject: Re: 12 Conventional Lies
> From: "phxbrd@home.com" phxbrd@home.com
> Date: 10/24/00 1:23 PM Atlantic Daylight Time
> Message-id: <39F5B589.4184809@home.com>
> 
> rickkins wrote:
> >
> > Oh no...not this fucking moron again. Allonzo...fuck off and die. Do
> > you think we have forgoton your infantile rantings from the past ??
> > About the only thing I never figured out was whether you were just
> > a moron or outright liar.
> 
> Not liking the demonstrable truths of which he wrote isn't the same as
> proving them to be lies.  Take the time to prove each of his 12 points
> to be in error, or admit you just hate truth when it doesn't support
> your personal agenda.
> 
> Have a nice day.
> ============
> Why should Rickkins have to prove anything? That moron allonzo does
> nothing but post unsubstantiated allegations, rumours, fantasies and
> plain ol' fashioned bullshit.  THEN when he's challenged to defend or
> document his spewings, he refuses to acknowledge or even stand up
> for himself. He just changes the subject like the little sloganeer he is..
> 
> For the longest time, allonzo was the "Voice of Plagiarism" when it
> came to the Balkans, 

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It Turns Out Depleted Uranium Is Bad For  NATO Troops In Kosovo [What
About
Everyone  Else?] 

 by Felicity Arbuthnot [10-26-2000]

 [Felicity Arbuthnot has written a great deal about the Gulf War and
depleted uranium, as well as about the attack on Yugoslavia. An 
interview
with Ms. Arbuthnot follows.] 

 In a week which has seen the French government follow their Italian
counterparts in launching an enquiry into the effects of depleted 
uranium
(DU) on their soldiers in Kosovo, the Portugese Defence  Minister, Julio
Castro Caldas has informed NATO Headquarters  that he is withdrawing
Portugese troops from Kosmet. They were  not, he said, going to become
uranium meat.

 DU, first used in the 1991 Gulf war, is both chemically toxic and
radioactive and is used as coating, ballast or core for weapons.  

 Two Italian K-FOR soldiers have been flown to Rome suffering  from
cancers
and the Rome Military Attorney has joined his  colleagues in Milan,
Turin
and Venice in investigating DU in  Kosovo and the Balkans and effects on
Italian troops. Last month  the Yugoslav Ambassador to the Czech
Republic,
Djoko Stojicic told media in Prague that K-FOR soldiers in
Kosovo-Metohia
had long been experiencing health problems associated with DU. Quoting
NATO
French Air Force Commander, General Joffret he said the West apparently
wanted to get rid of their nuclear waste, contaminating the region.
Belgium
and Dutch troops are instructed by their governments not to eat local
produce and that clothes must be destroyed on departure and vehicles
decontaminated. K-FOR contingents have drinking water flown in. 

 Portuguese Defense Minister Julio Castro Caldas said his decision
should
have been made earlier and that Portugese forces should not have
participated in last year's 72 day war in the Balkans. Former
 UK Minister of Defence, now NATO Secretary General, George Robertson
was
well aware of the dangers posed by DU, he said. 

 Portugese soldiers were sent on missions in the area poisoned with
depleted uranium, Pereira wrote in the influential Lisbon journal
'Diario
de Noticias'. NATO confirmed that the area was contaminted by DU and the
UN
representative also confirmed and apologised. Pereira stated that there
was
opposition in the headquarters of other countries performing missions in
poisoned areas. If it is hard to persuade military circles in
Washington,
Paris, London or Berlin to send their troops to the critical areas in
 Kosovo, does that mean that the Portugese are to represent uranium
meat? 

 Earlier this year a seven page document warning of the hazards of DU
was
placed in the mail boxes of all personel working out of the UN building
in
Pristina and the Supreme Headquarters Allied
 Command in Europe (SHAPE) issued warnings to United States Commands
urging
the widest possible dissemination to forces of other nations. A recent
meeting of the United Nations Environment
 Programme attended by bodies including the International Atomic Energy
Authority and the Swedish Radiation Protection Institute resulted in
ongoing consultations as to how to proceed with a scientific field
assessment of DU sites, according to Director Klaus Toepfer. Previous
assessments had been hampered by NATO's refusal to provide maps of
affected
areas. 

 This Wednesday, Dr Asav Durakovic and Dr Hari Sharma, world renowned
radiation experts who tested sick Gulf war veterans for the presence of
DU
in their bodies and found up to one hundred
 times the safe limit remaining eight years after the Gulf war, will
brief
the Justice and Human Rights Commission at the European Parliament. 

 If Balkans Syndrome is proven to affect K-FOR and reportedly other
people
working in the region, might not the native population of Kosovo also
suffer the cancers and birth deformities from DU
 which as we know have devastated Iraq? 

 And how does this question figure in the calculations of NATO?