Faith-based News for Extra-Terrestrials100X GREATER URANIUM CONTAMINATION IN AFGHANISTAN THAN GULF WAR I
The culprit is apparently the "new generation" of bunker/ cave busting and seismological weapons we are trying out in Nangarhar province. BBC:
A small sample of Afghan civilians have shown "astonishing" levels of uranium in their urine, an independent scientist says. But he found no trace of the depleted uranium (DU) some scientists believe is implicated in Gulf War syndrome. Other researchers suggest new types of radioactive weapons may have been used in Afghanistan...... In May 2002, he sent a team to Afghanistan to interview and examine civilians there... Without exception, every person donating urine specimens tested positive for uranium internal contamination.
The results were astounding: the donors presented concentrations of toxic and radioactive uranium isotopes between 100 and 400 times greater than in the Gulf veterans tested in 1999... [*]
Comments
The (non-DU) results didn't match results from any other US military conflict area, either before or after OEF, or any known or postulated weapon but such results had been seen previously in "geologic" (AKA environmental) exposure. But for some reason they discounted the reasonable idea that the exposure was natural, even though it matched the data, and theorized some new type of weapon (or even multiple types of weapons), even though there was no evidence that such weapons existed, no explanation for how such weapons would work, and no explanation as to why use of exactly the same ordnance loads in OEF and elsewhere haven't resulted in such exposure. And 100% testing positive? Haven't these people ever heard of a control?! It's just sloppy, bad science.
(BTW, the use of self-selected samples and no blinds in their DU studies is another example of absolutely pitiful science. If a drug or chemical company tried such techniques, we'd be all them.)
And the talk about "shaped charges" possibly being one of the sources is ridiculous on a whole other level. It shows a complete lack of knowledge about what shaped charges are and how they work from supposed experts on the effects of such weapons.
Posted by: Mojo | May 22, 2006 07:17 PM
Blinds and random samples are rarely used in field studies because they are not practical.
Although natural occuring uranium can't be ruled out the weapons if not the direct cause may have released the dust through explosion.
The article does say the findings have not been confirmed by other scientists, but it does not say which researchers "suggest" a new form of weapon has been used.
This article should not be uncritically accepted but it does seem worthy of concern
Posted by: POIUYT | May 22, 2006 11:00 PM