[Peace-discuss] DU

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Al-Jazeera
April 14, 2003

Depleted uranium will affect Iraq for generations to
come 
 

-When you deliberately and wilfully spread radioactive
waste, ignore the health effects and refuse to clean
it up, that is a crime against God and a crime against
humanity. 



The Presenter (Ahmed Mansour): Despite research by a
large number of scientists and experts on the enormous
damage inflicted by depleted uranium … and the use by
the US in the Gulf War in 1991, and wars in the
Balkans and Afghanistan in 1994, 1995, 1999 and
2000…The US use of depleted uranium is not confined to
the total destruction of targets but extends to the
destruction of the environment and human life in
general in the affected regions. Such areas will be
unfit for habitation for millions of years.

Our guest is professor Major Doug Rokke, former chief
of Depleted Uranium Project at the Pentagon. 

Born in Illinois 1949, professor Doug Rokke joined the
US Air Force in 1967, took part in the Vietnam War
from 1969 to 1971 as a B52 pilot. He obtained his PhD
in nuclear physics. He worked until 1996 as a field
doctor and specialist in nuclear physics in the US
Army. He took part in the 1991 Gulf War, tasked with
depleted uranium clean up in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.