[Shadow_Group] How the pentagon downplay the risks of DU weapons

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DANGER DISMISSED: How the Pentagon downplays the risks of depleted uranium weapons

Uranium Dust Leaves a Trail

dailypress.com
December 12, 2004

http://www.dailypress.com/news/specials/dp-du-day1super,0,588771.htmlstory?coll=dp-breaking-news

While U.S. forces fight in the streets of Iraq, scientists 
are finding more evidence that the depleted uranium weapons 
we've given them to defeat the enemy are a hazard to friend 
and foe.
The weapons, first used in the Persian Gulf War, provide a 
decided battlefield advantage. But the mildly radioactive 
toxic dust that results when they're used successfully also 
might be why veterans of the 1991 war have a disability rate 
three times as high as those for Vietnam and World War II vets.

The Pentagon dismisses any link between those illnesses and 
depleted uranium. This week, the Daily Press takes an 
in-depth look at the latest science.

You'll see why some experts think now is too soon to pull 
the plug on research into whether cancers and brain damage 
result from breathing the dust. You'll find out why the U.S. 
military uses an inferior process to identify whether our 
forces have depleted uranium in their bodies and how British 
vets are signing up for a better test.

You'll meet Matt Rohman of York County, a Gulf War veteran 
who's lost all feeling in his feet and fingers, living every 
day in pain. Government doctors say his problems are related 
to the war, but they don't know how or why. Will a new 
generation of warriors meet the same fate?

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