LEBANON: Israel uses depleted uranium

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/677/677p18h.htm

LEBANON: Israel uses depleted uranium

According to Doug Rokke, the former director of the US Army’s depleted
uranium project, the US’s delivery of 100 GBU 28 laser-guided bunker-buster
bombs with depleted uranium warheads to Israel for use in its brutal
offensive against Lebanon will cause major health and environmental damage
throughout the Middle East. The British media reported that US cargo planes
filled with depleted uranium munitions had landed at Prestwick airport, near
Glasgow, for refuelling before delivering the weapons to the Israeli armed
forces. On July 21, Indymedia UK reported that photos taken near the
Lebanese border on July 14 by David Silverman showed Israeli soldiers
loading DU shells into tanks.

From Green Left Weekly, August 2, 2006.

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