[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Check out this story on Foreign Policy

[Karen Aram]

Roger

I look forward to hearing their reply. If the information reported in Foreign Policy is inaccurate I wish to be informed. I read it in other publications as well, but thought Foreign Policy to be the most credible source.


On Feb 17, 2017, at 05:36, Roger Helbig <rwhelbig at gmail.com<mailto:rwhelbig at gmail.com>> wrote:

Here is what I sent to Foreign Policy - apparently, I sent it to the wrong part - I have not yet looked for the "reporter"'s personal e-mail.  He works for a biased organization so I would not presume him to be objective.  I had presumed Foreign Policy to be objective, but this is not really their story.

I am disappointed that your headline claims DU is a toxic material.  Pretty much anything used as a projectile is toxic - lead is toxic, copper is toxic, DU is no more toxic than these.  It is just far more maligned, mainly falsely by groups such as the ICBUW which is itself falsely named since there is no such thing as a Uranium Weapon.  A DU kinetic energy penetrator is not a weapon; it is a bullet.  The ICBUW though wanted to pretend that DU is a weapon of mass destruction and it has done well financially for itself, whatever that really is since they are not a registered charity in the UK where they are based in Manchester.  You want to do a good well researched story with no bias, find out exactly what the ICBUW is, where the money comes from, where it goes, and how it came to be.  You will find a very fascinating story that really needs to be told about this manipulative group.
I later sent them this addendum

Just read the story in more depth - where is evidence that 1 million rounds of DU or even of Combat Mix were fired in Iraq in 2003? - do you have such evidence or is it just supposition?

There have been false claims that DU rounds were fired in Somalia, in Libya, in Afghanistan and by the Israelis in Gaza and Lebanon, so I am very concerned that articles claiming to be accurately reported are in fact accurate and not based on a source such as the ICBUW, which is where I strongly suspect Airwars, which does not appear particularly credible to me, got their information.

I have also written the Associate Professor quoted in the article questioning what she personally knows about depleted uranium.  She has not yet replied.



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