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11-08-2005, 10:11 PM

National Press Conference on Depleted Uranium with Doug Rokke,Ph.D.

Doug Rokke, Ph.D., is former Director of the U.S. Army Depleted Uranium (DU) Project

Dr. Rokke made a number of startling revelations. Over 221,000 veterans from
Gulf I are on permanent disability. Now, soldiers are coming back sick. DU
is suspected as a cause. He goes into details about how the soldiers who
went to the Gulf were ill-trained and ill-equipped to deal with radioactive
munitions. These munitions cause a radioactive and highly toxic dust when
used.

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Traprock Peace Center hosted the press conference with participants from
Washington, DC; New York State; North Carolina; South Dakota, Oregon and
Massachusetts.
July 23, 2003: More information:

Traprock Peace Center hosted this national call-in press conference with
Doug Rokke, Ph.D. on 'depleted' uranium, which has been used by US, UK and
Australian troops in the Iraq War.

Dr. Rokke made a number of startling revelations. Over 221,000 veterans from
Gulf I are on permanent disability. Now, soldiers are coming back sick. DU
is suspected as a cause. He goes into details about how the soldiers who
went to the Gulf were ill-trained and ill-equipped to deal with radioactive
munitions. These munitions cause a radioactive and highly toxic dust when
used.

US, UK and Australian troops have spread this radioactive material widely in
Iraq, to the long term detriment of Iraqi civilians and coalition soldiers
as well. This spreading of radioactive contamination in Iraq is something
that the US could not have done in the US without violating environmental
and health laws.

Participating in the press conference were:

Doug Rokke, Ph.D., former Director of the U.S. Army Depleted Uranium (DU)
Project in the aftermath of the Gulf War; Vietnam and Gulf War veteran.

Sunny Miller - Moderator, Traprock Peace Center, http://traprockpeace.org (http://traprockpeace.org/)
Andrew Stelzer, WBOO, Portland, OR
Elizabeth Christanson, WRBO, Syracuse, NY
Jon Hunt, The Fuse, Boone, NC
Jean Koster, South Dakota Sun
Mike Zmolek, National Network to End the War Against Iraq,
http://www.endthewar.org (http://www.endthewar.org/)

Dr. Rokke spoke on the road, as he is in the start of a 3 state Summer Tour
on 'Depleted' Uranium through August 10. The tour is organized by Traprock
Peace Center and local hosts. More information on the tour is available at
http://traprockpeace.org/rokkesummerdutour03.html (http://traprockpeace.org/rokkesummerdutour03.html)

The tour continues in September with mainly mid-west and west-coast dates.
Groups wishing to host Doug Rokke or media wishing to interview him should
call Sunny Miller at 413-773-7427.

In mid-October, Dr. Rokke will present at the World Uranium Weapons
Conference in Hamburg. Get more information, with valuable links to
resources on DU at http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de/speakers.htm (http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de/speakers.htm)

Traprock's home page has recent items on 'depleted' uranium. It's main
resource page on DU, with links to other resources, is found at
http://traprockpeace.org/depleteduranium.html (http://traprockpeace.org/depleteduranium.html) FURTHER ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC (http://www.google.com/custom?sa=GIMP%3Ared%3BT%3Ablack%3BLW%3A501%3BALC% 3Ablue%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.informationclearingh ouse.info%2Fimages%2FBAN1.gif%3BGFNT%3Agrey%3BLC%3 Ablack%3BLH%3A61%3BAH%3Acenter%3BVLC%3Ared%3BS%3Ah ttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.informationclearinghouse.info%3BAW FID%3A5e7ae7f73a1389ac%3B&domains=www.informationclearinghouse.info&q=du&cof=Google+Search&sitesearch=www.informationclearinghouse.info)

pisshead

11-09-2005, 12:04 AM

more denial for the big government trillion dollar budget neo-con welfare loving socialists...chemical weapons and DU poisoning are actually good for you...

US forces 'used chemical weapons during assault on city of Fallujah

London Independent | November 8, 2005 (http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article325560.ece)
By Peter Popham

RELATED:Italian News Org. To Broadcast Evidence Of US Use Of Chemical Weapons On Iraqi Civilians... (http://infowars.com/articles/iraq/falluja_us_forces_used_chem_weapons_during_assault .htm#italian)

Vet: "Bodies Melted Away Before Us."TV to Broadcast Evidence of US Use of Chem Weapons on Civilians (http://infowars.com/articles/iraq/falluja_us_forces_used_chem_weapons_during_assault .htm#vet)

Powerful new evidence emerged yesterday that the United States dropped massive quantities of white phosphorus on the Iraqi city of Fallujah during the attack on the city in November 2004, killing insurgents and civilians with the appalling burns that are the signature of this weapon.

Ever since the assault, which went unreported by any Western journalists, rumours have swirled that the Americans used chemical weapons on the city.

On 10 November last year, the Islam Online website wrote: "US troops are reportedly using chemical weapons and poisonous gas in its large-scale offensive on the Iraqi resistance bastion of Fallujah, a grim reminder of Saddam Hussein's alleged gassing of the Kurds in 1988."

The website quoted insurgent sources as saying: "The US occupation troops are gassing resistance fighters and confronting them with internationally banned chemical weapons."

In December the US government formally denied the reports, describing them as "widespread myths". "Some news accounts have claimed that US forces have used 'outlawed' phosphorus shells in Fallujah," the USinfo website said. "Phosphorus shells are not outlawed. US forces have used them very sparingly in Fallujah, for illumination purposes.

"They were fired into the air to illuminate enemy positions at night, not at enemy fighters."

But now new information has surfaced, including hideous photographs and videos and interviews with American soldiers who took part in the Fallujah attack, which provides graphic proof that phosphorus shells were widely deployed in the city as a weapon.

In a documentary to be broadcast by RAI, the Italian state broadcaster, this morning, a former American soldier who fought at Fallujah says: "I heard the order to pay attention because they were going to use white phosphorus on Fallujah. In military jargon it's known as Willy Pete.

"Phosphorus burns bodies, in fact it melts the flesh all the way down to the bone ... I saw the burned bodies of women and children. Phosphorus explodes and forms a cloud. Anyone within a radius of 150 metres is done for."

Photographs on the website of RaiTG24, the broadcaster's 24-hours news channel, www.rainews24.it (http://www.rainews24.it/), show exactly what the former soldier means. Provided by the Studies Centre of Human Rights in Fallujah, dozens of high-quality, colour close-ups show bodies of Fallujah residents, some still in their beds, whose clothes remain largely intact but whose skin has been dissolved or caramelised or turned the consistency of leather by the shells.

A biologist in Fallujah, Mohamad Tareq, interviewed for the film, says: "A rain of fire fell on the city, the people struck by this multi-coloured substance started to burn, we found people dead with strange wounds, the bodies burned but the clothes intact."

The documentary, entitled Fallujah: the Hidden Massacre, also provides what it claims is clinching evidence that incendiary bombs known as Mark 77, a new, improved form of napalm, was used in the attack on Fallujah, in breach of the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons of 1980, which only allows its use against military targets.

Meanwhile, five US soldiers from the elite 75th Ranger Regiment have been charged with kicking and punching detainees in Iraq.

The news came as a suicide car bomber killed four American soldiers at a checkpoint south of Baghdad yesterday.

Powerful new evidence emerged yesterday that the United States dropped massive quantities of white phosphorus on the Iraqi city of Fallujah during the attack on the city in November 2004, killing insurgents and civilians with the appalling burns that are the signature of this weapon.

Ever since the assault, which went unreported by any Western journalists, rumours have swirled that the Americans used chemical weapons on the city.

On 10 November last year, the Islam Online website wrote: "US troops are reportedly using chemical weapons and poisonous gas in its large-scale offensive on the Iraqi resistance bastion of Fallujah, a grim reminder of Saddam Hussein's alleged gassing of the Kurds in 1988."

The website quoted insurgent sources as saying: "The US occupation troops are gassing resistance fighters and confronting them with internationally banned chemical weapons."

In December the US government formally denied the reports, describing them as "widespread myths". "Some news accounts have claimed that US forces have used 'outlawed' phosphorus shells in Fallujah," the USinfo website said. "Phosphorus shells are not outlawed. US forces have used them very sparingly in Fallujah, for illumination purposes.

"They were fired into the air to illuminate enemy positions at night, not at enemy fighters."

But now new information has surfaced, including hideous photographs and videos and interviews with American soldiers who took part in the Fallujah attack, which provides graphic proof that phosphorus shells were widely deployed in the city as a weapon.

In a documentary to be broadcast by RAI, the Italian state broadcaster, this morning, a former American soldier who fought at Fallujah says: "I heard the order to pay attention because they were going to use white phosphorus on Fallujah. In military jargon it's known as Willy Pete.

"Phosphorus burns bodies, in fact it melts the flesh all the way down to the bone ... I saw the burned bodies of women and children. Phosphorus explodes and forms a cloud. Anyone within a radius of 150 metres is done for."

Photographs on the website of RaiTG24, the broadcaster's 24-hours news channel, www.rainews24.it (http://www.rainews24.it/), show exactly what the former soldier means. Provided by the Studies Centre of Human Rights in Fallujah, dozens of high-quality, colour close-ups show bodies of Fallujah residents, some still in their beds, whose clothes remain largely intact but whose skin has been dissolved or caramelised or turned the consistency of leather by the shells.

A biologist in Fallujah, Mohamad Tareq, interviewed for the film, says: "A rain of fire fell on the city, the people struck by this multi-coloured substance started to burn, we found people dead with strange wounds, the bodies burned but the clothes intact."

The documentary, entitled Fallujah: the Hidden Massacre, also provides what it claims is clinching evidence that incendiary bombs known as Mark 77, a new, improved form of napalm, was used in the attack on Fallujah, in breach of the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons of 1980, which only allows its use against military targets.

Meanwhile, five US soldiers from the elite 75th Ranger Regiment have been charged with kicking and punching detainees in Iraq.

The news came as a suicide car bomber killed four American soldiers at a checkpoint south of Baghdad yesterday.

Italian News Org. To Broadcast Evidence Of US Use Of Chemical Weapons On Iraqi Civilians...

Daily Kos | November 7, 2005 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/11/07/italian-news-org-to-broa_n_10254.html)

In soldier slang they call it Willy Pete. The technical name is white phosphorus. In theory its purpose is to illumine enemy positions in the dark. In practice, it was used as a chemical weapon in the rebel stronghold of Fallujah. And it was used not only against enemy combatants and guerrillas, but again innocent civilians. The Americans are responsible for a massacre using unconventional weapons, the identical charge for which Saddam Hussein stands accused. An investigation by RAI News 24, the all-news Italian satellite television channel, has pulled the veil from one of the most carefully concealed mysteries from the front in the entire US military campaign in Iraq.

A US veteran of the Iraq war told RAI New correspondent Sigfrido Ranucci this: I received the order use caution because we had used white phosphorus on Fallujah. In military slag it is called 'Willy Pete'. Phosphorus burns the human body on contact--it even melts it right down to the bone.

Vet: "Bodies Melted Away Before Us."TV to Broadcast Evidence of US Use of Chem Weapons on Civilians
Paper Tigress | Noveber 7, 2005 (http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/4230954.html)

"Bodies melted away before us."

"Bodies melted away before us."

"Bodies melted away before us."

Shocking revelation RAI News 24. Use of chemical weapons by the US military in Iraq. Veteran admits: Bodies melted away before us.

Italian Satellite TV to Broadcast Evidence of US Use of Chemical Weapons on Civilians

Italian media going full-bore on the Bush Administration. After its revelations on the subterfuge behind the Nigergate forgeries, documentary evidence of the use by US troops of phosphorus and a new formulaton of napalm [MK77] on the Sunni civilian population will be broadcast tomorrow on international satellite TV. Global coverage of the atrocity, folks.

A news program on Italian satellite TV, RAI News 24, has substantiated the claim that the US military has been exploiting the dual use of white phosporus. In its siege of Fallujah, the chemical was used on the civilian populace. The story is in today's Repubblica (http://www.repubblica.it/2005/k/sezioni/esteri/iraq71/rainews/rainews.html). The Bush Adminstration and the DoD are about to be shamed before the eyes of the world.

Shocking revelation RAI News 24. Use of chemical weapons by the US military in Iraq. Veteran admits: Bodies melted away before us.

White phosphorous used on the civilian populace: This is how the US "took" Fallujah.

New napalm formula also used.

ROME. In soldier slang they call it Willy Pete. The technical name is white phosphorus. In theory its purpose is to illumine enemy positions in the dark. In practice, it was used as a chemical weapon in the rebel stronghold of Fallujah. And it was used not only against enemy combatants and guerrillas, but again innocent civilians. The Americans are responsible for a massacre using unconventional weapons, the identical charge for which Saddam Hussein stands accused. An investigation by RAI News 24, the all-news Italian satellite television channel, has pulled the veil from one of the most carefully concealed mysteries from the front in the entire US military campaign in Iraq.

A US veteran of the Iraq war told RAI New correspondent Sigfrido Ranucci this: I received the order use caution because we had used white phosphorus on Fallujah. In military slag it is called 'Willy Pete'. Phosphorus burns the human body on contact--it even melts it right down to the bone.

RAI News 24's investigative story, Fallujah, The Concealed Massacre, will be broadcast tomorrow on RAI-3 and will contain not only eye-witness accounts by US military personnel but those from Fallujah residents. A rain of fire descended on the city. People who were exposed to those multicolored substance began to burn. We found people with bizarre wounds-their bodies burned but their clothes intact, relates Mohamad Tareq al-Deraji, a biologist and Fallujah resident.

I gathered accounts of the use of phosphorus and napalm from a few Fallujah refugees whom I met before being kidnapped, says Manifesto reporter Giuliana Sgrena, who was kidnapped in Fallujah last February, in a recorded interview. I wanted to get the story out, but my kidnappers would not permit it.

RAI News 24 will broadcast video and photographs taken in the Iraqi city during and after the November 2004 bombardment which prove that the US military, contrary to statements in a December 9 communiqué from the US Department of State, did not use phosphorus to illuminate enemy positions (which would have been legitimate) but instend dropped white phosphorus indiscriminately and in massive quantities on the city's neighborhoods.

In the investigative story, produced by Maurizio Torrealta, dramatic footage is shown revealing the effects of the bombardment on civilians, women and children, some of whom were surprised in their sleep.

The investigation will also broadcast documentary proof of the use in Iraq of a new napalm formula called MK77. The use of the incendiary substance on civilians is forbidden by a 1980 UN treaty. The use of chemical weapons is forbidden by a treaty which the US signed in 1997

Fallujah, The Concealed Massacre will be shown on RAI News tomorrow November 8th at 07:35 (via HOT BIRDTM statellite, Sky Channel 506 and RAI-3), and rebroadcast by HOT BIRDTM satellite and Sky Channel 506 at 17:00 [5 pm] and over the next two days.