Thursday, March 07, 2013

10 years after invasion, U.S. depleted uranium continues to devastate Iraq


US persistent refusal to release data hampering efforts to eradicate contamination. 

A radioactive heavy metal found in weapons used by the U.S. military and other forces in the war on Iraq continues to plague the country as hundreds of sites are still contaminated and causing the spread of the radioactive substance, according to a new report by Netherlands peace group IKV Pax Christi.

Tens years after the invasion, the U.S. has done almost nothing to clean up the toxic legacy of the war and continues to deny the well-documented harms caused by the radioactive residue that remains .... http://www.sott.net