Palestine Monitor The Voice of Civil Society - Israeli Women's Group Monitors Soldiers at Checkpoints

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Special section Closures and checkpoints Israeli Women's Group Monitors Soldiers at Checkpoints By Maia Ridberg Reuters November 26, 2003 BEIT UMAR CHECKPOINT, West Bank, Nov 26 (Reuters) � A Palestinian taxi driver, his keys confiscated by Israeli soldiers at an army checkpoint, looked with weary eyes for help from an Israeli woman observing the scene. Neta Efroni, a retired television director, belongs to "Machsom (Checkpoint) Watch", a group of Israeli women who monitor soldiers at checkpoints and try to persuade them to smooth the way for Palestinians hoping to pass. Trying to help the stranded taxi driver, described by the army as suspicious, Efroni turned to the soldier and told him: "The driver didn't understand you." The soldier, speaking in even tones, replied:� "He understood me.�� We will give the keys back in two hours." Unlike most human rights organisations helping Palestinians, Machsom Watch is an all-Israeli group of nearly 200 women, many of them in their 60s, who converse freely and comfortably with soldiers. "It's a peculiar relationship between the soldiers and us, being Israeli women who can be friends of their mothers or their grandmothers.�� They can't just push us away," said Yehudit Elkana, who served in Israel's army in 1952. Israel has kept Palestinians under tight travel restrictions during a three-year-old uprising in the Gaza Strip and West Bank and says checkpoints are necessary to prevent attacks on Jewish settlements and Israeli cities. Palestinians say they are a form of collective punishment on civilians not involved in militant activities.�� The taxi driver stopped at the Beit Umar checkpoint got his keys back as promised after what the army said was a security check. HUMILIATION OF PALESTINIANS Machsom Watch says its numbers are increasing, a reflection of growing public criticism in Israel over tough military measures against Palestinians. Israel's biggest newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, profiled the group a week after the tabloid featured an unprecedented joint interview with four former security chiefs who attacked the government's hard line in the West Bank and Gaza. "The roadblocks spawn so much hate...(Palestinian life) is impossible, with the daily humiliation and arbitrariness faced at checkpoints," said Rachel Freudenthal, a college history lecturer who volunteers for Machsom Watch. "What we are doing is horrible, not just for Palestinians...Misconduct (by soldiers) translates into misbehaviour in society, and it is ruining us," said Rina, who declined to give her family name, after watching a soldier order a Palestinian to lift his shirt in a search for weapons. Machsom Watch began in Jerusalem with a few volunteers four months after the outset of the Palestinian uprising in 2000. Two months ago, the group expanded to Tel Aviv with some 70 more women volunteering to monitor checkpoints in the central and northern West Bank. Jewish settlers have called the women "traitors" who help "terrorists".�� But the women partly blame Israeli policies for Palestinian attacks. "Our friend was killed in a terrorist attack at (Jerusalem's) Hebrew University," Freudenthal said. "As long as there is occupation, there is a bad seed producing a rotten situation." WOMEN'S LIVES TRACE HISTORY OF ISRAEL Most Machsom Watch volunteers grew up in socialist youth movements, entrenched in the Zionist ideals of the early days of Israel before it seized the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East War. Many served in the army before the Israeli occupation. "We didn't really know (Palestinians) were there," said Freudenthal, who was raised on a kibbutz, or collective farm, in central Israel. On daily Machsom Watch patrols � about once a week for each volunteer � women speak with Palestinians and document their hardships on videotapes and published reports distributed to the Israeli media. At a roadblock near Bethlehem, Murad Karaja, a 28-year-old Palestinian doctor, was waiting for a ride to Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, where he was to start a new job. "Who are you?" a surprised Karaja asked the women. A smile crept across his face as they voiced their opposition to the barrier blocking his journey. "Very good," he said.

�������Atrocities � ������� �������US and Israel atrocities ������� ������ Lest we forget � Ahmed and Asma, story of two children dying������ ��������The olive harvest�������� �������Israel using chemical weapons and phosphorous bombs. ������� �������Photos of Lebanon attacks on population by Israel ������� �������Injuries from White Phosphorus bombs ������� ������ Settlements � Trees � Jayyous � West Bank � Palestine�������� ��������http://www.pcwfund.org�������� The link to the website of Palestine Children's Welfare Fund ...Click to buy Palestinian embroidery online, sponsor a Palestinian child, buy a flag or a Kuffiya to feed one, or donate books for the children of the refugee camps and BirZeit Universiy. ������As Jews we march with the Palestinians and raise their flag!����� �����His Majesty King Abdullah � The American Magazine���� November 1947����� �����Norman Finkelstein, Professor Marc Saperstein and Middle East Journal����� ������ Israel resister � 'I realised the stupidity of it'������ �������Yonatan Shapira, Refusenik and Human Rights Activist�� Israel, Palestine Photos����������� January 2004 Israeli occupation soldiers guarding bulldozers demolishing Palestinian homes. A Palestinian man, perhaps who has lived in one of the homes, sits on the ground watching, his small daughters around him. ���������Atrocities in Palestine�������� ��������What CNN does not show you.�������� �������� � graphic images�������� �������Israel: A Call for Divestment � Palestine photos���������� ������ Hamas and Fatah � How Bush forced them together in Palestine�������� More Palestinian mothers are giving birth at home because they dare not risk ride to hospital. ������Right of return is feasable������ ������US Foreign Policy Dangerously Slanted Toward Israel������ �������U.S. to Israel: ������� � An apocalypse of Evil being created������� �������� 500 'bunker buster' bombs��������� �������Torture techniques no surprise������� September 2003 See the home blow up. Blowing up more Palestinian homes as a collective punishment is a daily Israeli practice (paid for by US money) to control Palestinians under occupation. ��������US missiles � US money � and Palestine�������� The life and death of Kamala Sawalha A student leaves her house every night, leaving her two young children at home, spends the next several hours traveling by taxi and on foot to get to the university in the neighboring town � just 15 minutes away. Kamala wanted very badly to study � otherwise, it would be hard to understand the sacrifice she made for it. To get up before dawn every morning, to leave the babies with their grandmother, to spend hours on the road in the heat and cold, even when pregnant, in order to get to the campus on time; to risk being shot or subjected to endless humiliations around every turn, and then to travel the whole way back � in a taxi where possible and on foot where necessary.... �Suddenly we were facing the soldiers,� he recounts. The jeep was parked on the left side of the road and its right door was open. Kamala let out a long scream. It was the last sound she would ever make. At 11:30 A.M., they buried Kamala Sawalha in the town cemetery. ��������More Photos�������� Punching an arab in the face. The father went through it and now the son is going through it and no one talks about it around the dinner table. Furer is certain that what happened to him is not at all unique. Here he was � a creative, sensitive graduate of the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts, who became an animal at the checkpoint, a violent sadist who beat up Palestinians because they didn�t show him the proper courtesy, who shot out tires of cars because their owners were playing the radio too loud, who abused a retarded teenage boy lying handcuffed on the floor of the Jeep, just because he had to take his anger out somehow. ��������Now the landscape itself has changed�������� ��������Children trying to commit suicide�������� The celebration of Jerusalem day, the US missiles that rained onto children in Gaza, and, a gathering of top articles over the past nine months ��������Israeli settlers who seek a way out�������� ��������Water war leaves Palestinians thirsty�������� October 2003 Tom Hurndall, the peace activist who was shot by Israeli occupation forces while helping to shield some Palestinian children, is declared to be brain dead. Two Palestinian children were among about 100 Palestinian civilians injured in the Israeli air raids on Gaza Strip, which also resulted in killing 10 civilians. ��������I'll never know what hit me������� ��������Israel confronted by demographic realities�������� ��������Using war to swallow Palestinian land�������� November 2003 A Palestinian family in Jenin, moments before the Israeli occupation forces blew up their home. ��������An interview with Qais Abu Layla�������� ��������Jenin deaths video implicates army�������� ��������Three generations killed in slaughter�������� December 2003 Palestinian boys cry over the body of their father. 8 Palestinians were killed and 40 were injured,in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. Many homes were destroyed during a savage Israeli occupation raid on the refugee camp on Tuesday. ��������A historic act by the chief of staff�������� ��������Several steps closer to Armageddon�������� ��������Harpoon missiles, German-built submarines, nuclear capability threat�������� �������� � Dreams of Greater Israel�������� ��������Ethnic cleansing in Beduin desert�������� March 2004 A young Palestinian man hitting an Israeli teargas bomb with his shoes away from demonstrators. Israeli occupation soldiers killed two demonstrators and injured more than a hundred of them during anti-Wall demonstrations in the West Bank. ��������Face to face with Tulkarm executioners�������� February 2004 A Palestinian elderly woman screaming in despair, complaining to God, as an Israeli occupation army bulldozer started to prepare her land for the construction of the separation wall in the village of Dair Qidees, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. ��������Instead of playing the scheduled game,�������� ��������the team will accompany their friends to their final resting place�������� ��������Thousands at Israeli Peace Rally�������� March 2004 A young Palestinian man hitting an Israeli teargas bomb with his shoes away from demonstrators. 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Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military by Dr. Bryan Mark Rigg

Hitler's Jewish Soldiers:
The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military
by Dr. Bryan Mark Rigg

On the murderous road to "racial purity" Hitler encountered unexpected detours, largely due to his own crazed views and inconsistent policies regarding Jewish identity. After centuries of Jewish assimilation and intermarriage in German society, he discovered that eliminating Jews from the rest of the population was more difficult than he'd anticipated. As Bryan Mark Rigg shows in this provocative new study, nowhere was that heinous process more fraught with contradiction and confusion than in the German military. Contrary to conventional views, Rigg reveals that a startlingly large number of German military men were classified by the Nazis as Jews or "partial-Jews" (Mischlinge), in the wake of racial laws first enacted in the mid-1930s. Rigg demonstrates that the actual number was much higher than previously thought--perhaps as many as 150,000 men, including decorated veterans and high-ranking officers, even generals and admirals. As Rigg fully documents for the first time, a great many of these men did not even consider themselves Jewish and had embraced the military as a way of life and as devoted patriots eager to serve a revived German nation. In turn, they had been embraced by the Wehrmacht, which prior to Hitler had given little thought to the "race" of these men but which was now forced to look deeply into the ancestry of its soldiers. The process of investigation and removal, however, was marred by a highly inconsistent application of Nazi law. Numerous "exemptions" were made in order to allow a soldier to stay within the ranks or to spare a soldier's parent, spouse, or other relative from incarceration or far worse. (Hitler's own signature can be found on many of these "exemption" orders.) But as the war dragged on, Nazi politics came to trump military logic, even in the face of the Wehrmacht's growing manpower needs, closing legal loopholes and making it virtually impossible for these soldiers to escape the fate of millions of other victims of the Third Reich. Based on a deep and wide-ranging research in archival and secondary sources, as well as extensive interviews with more than four hundred Mischlinge and their relatives, Rigg's study breaks truly new ground in a crowded field and shows from yet another angle the extremely flawed, dishonest, demeaning, and tragic essence of Hitler's rule.

"Through videotaped interviews, painstaking attention to personnel files, and banal documents not normally consulted by historians, and spurred by a keen sense of personal mission, Rigg has turned up an unexplored and confounding chapter in the history of the Holocaust. The extent of his findings has surprised scholars."--Warren Hoge, New York Times.

"The revelation that Germans of Jewish blood, knowing the Nazi regime for what it was, served Hitler as uniformed members of his armed forces must come as a profound shock. It will surprise even professional historians of the Nazi years." --John Keegan, author of The Face of Battle and The Second World War.

"Startling and unexpected, Rigg's study conclusively demonstrates the degree of flexibility in German policy toward the Mischlinge, the extent of Hitler's involvement, and, most importantly, that not all who served in the armed forces were anti-Semitic, even as their service aided the killing process."--Michael Berenbaum, author of The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust.

"Rigg's extensive knowledge and the preliminary conclusions drawn from his research impressed me greatly. I firmly believe that his in-depth treatment of the subject of German soldiers of Jewish descent in the Wehrmacht will lead to new perspectives on this portion of 20th century German military history."--Helmut Schmidt, Former Chancellor of Germany.

"An impressively researched work with important implications for hotly debated questions. Rigg tells some exquisitely poignant stories of individual human experiences that complicate our picture of state and society in the Third Reich."--Nathan A. Stoltzfus, Florida State University, author of Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany.

"An impressive work filled with interesting stories. . . . By helping us better understand Nazi racial policy at the margins--i.e., its impact on certain members of the German military--Rigg's study clarifies the central problems of Nazi Jewish policies overall."--Norman Naimark, Stanford University, author of Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe.

"An illuminating and provocative study that merits a wide readership and is sure to be much discussed."--Dennis E. Showalter, Colorado College, author of Tannenberg: Clash of Empires.

"An outstanding job of research and analysis. Rigg's book will add a great deal to our understanding of the German military, of the place of Jews and people of Jewish descent in the Nazi state, and of the Holocaust. It forces us to deal with the full, complex range of possible actions and reactions by individuals caught up in the Nazi system."--Geoffrey P. Megargee, author of Inside Hitler's High Command.

"With the skill of a master detective, Bryan Rigg reveals the surprising and largely unknown story of Germans of Jewish origins in the Nazi military. His work contributes to our understanding of the complexity of faith and identity in the Third Reich."--Paula E. Hyman, Yale University, author of Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History and The Jews of Modern France.

"A major piece of scholarship which traces the peculiar twists and turns of Nazi racial policy toward men in the Wehrmacht, often in the highest ranks, who had partly Jewish backgrounds. Rigg has uncovered personal stories and private archives which literally nobody knew existed. His book will be an important contribution to German history."--Jonathan Steinberg, University of Pennsylvania, author of All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust 1941-1943.

"An original, groundbreaking, and significant contribution to the history of the Wehrmacht and Nazi Germany."--James S. Corum, School of Advanced Air Power Studies, author of The Roots of Blitzkrieg and The Luftwaffe.

"Rigg's work has discovered new academic territory."--Manfred Messerschmidt, Freiburg University, author of Die Wehrmacht im NS-Staat (The Wehrmacht in the Nazi State).

Dr. Rigg's book can be purchased at Amazon.com or Kansas University Press.

Depleted Uranium Radioactive Contamination In Iraq: An Overview

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Depleted Uranium Radioactive Contamination In Iraq: An Overview by Prof Souad N. Al-Azzawi Global Research, August 31, 2006 Email this article to a friend Print this article 0diggsdigg 89Share Abstract Depleted Uranium (DU) weaponry has been used against Iraq for the first time in the history of recent wars. The magnitude of the complications and damage related to the use of such radioactive and toxic weapons on the environment and the human population mostly results from the intended concealment, denial and misleading information released by the Pentagon about the quantities, characteristics and the area’s in Iraq, in which these weapons have been used. Revelation of information regarding what is called the Gulf War Syndrome among exposed American veterans helped Iraqi researchers and Medical Doctors to understand the nature of the effect of these weapons, and the means required to investigate further into this issue. The synergetic impact on health due to the post Gulf War I economical sanctions and DU related radioactive contamination raised the number of casualties in contaminated areas as in southern Iraq. Continual usage of DU after Gulf War I on other Iraqi territories through the illegal No-Fly Zones and the major DU loaded Cruise Missiles attack of year 1998, all contributed in making the problem increasingly complex. During 2003, military operations conducted in Iraq by the invading forces used additional rounds of DU in heavily populated areas such as Baghdad, Samawa and other provinces. It is only fair to conclude that the environment in Iraq and its population have been exposed continuously to DU weaponry or its contaminating remains, since 1991. Accordingly millions of Iraqi’s have received higher doses of radioactivity than ordinary background levels. As a result a multi-fold increase of low level radiation exposure related diseases have been registered since 1995. An increase of children’s leukemia, congenital malformations, breast cancer etc… The shift of leukemia incidence rates towards younger children during the recent years, and its association with geographically distributed contaminated areas, offers strong evidence of the correlation between LLR exposure and resulted health damages. Through this paper, an overview of major scientific DU conclusions will be presented, drawn from investigations and research conducted since the year 1991 by Iraqi researchers and MDs. Schemes of these researches can be classified into three categories: DU contamination detection and exploration programs. DU effects on human body cells. DU related epidemiological studies. Complete Article 1.0 Introduction: Depleted Uranium (DU) weaponry has been used against Iraq since the Gulf War 1 in 1991. Estimated (DU) expenditure of 320 - 800 tons were mainly shot on the withdrawing Iraqi troops from Kuwait to the north of Basrah City. The use of (DU) ammunition and bombs on Iraqi territory never stopped since 1991. Different generations of (DU) supported Tomahawk missiles & Bunker Buster Bombs [3] have been used during the 90’s on what were known as the No Fly Zones (Northern & Southern regions of Iraq), and the 1998 attack on Iraq. With the comprehensive sanctions that were imposed on Iraq, the USA & its allies purposely used these radioactive & toxic weapons to exhaust Iraq’s strength & population to prepare for the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Hundreds of tons of (DU) expenditure were also used during the invasion of Iraq. This was done to worsen the radioactive contamination impact. Additionally, the occupying forces have forbade any kind of (DU) related exploration programs or research [2]. They have also covered up and denied DU’s damaging health effects, and refused to release information on the amounts, types and locations of these weapons within Iraq. As a consequence, thousands of Iraqi children and their families are suffering from different low level radiation (LLR) related diseases such as congenital malformations, malignancies, congenital heart diseases, chromosomal aberration and multiple malformations. Women in the contaminated areas suffered high rates of miscarriages and sterility [3]. Pressure from anti-DU groups and the international community due to the effects of the Gulf War Syndrome (GWS) on Gulf War veterans, helped Iraqi researchers start a series of investigation programs on the contaminated areas to estimate the radiation dose the people in southern Iraq and the Iraqi troops were exposed to during military engagements in 1991, and assess the level of contamination in the surrounding environment. The American administration still claims that the biological and chemical agents of hydrocarbon smoke of oil field fires in southern Iraq are the main causes behind the (GWS) and not the exposure to the DU [2][4]. This is very false and misleading information. The previously published data of the types and amounts of the chemical fumes and hydrocarbons that were released to Iraq’s environment in each Iraqi city due to the 1991 air raids and bombing [5] [6] proves that the areas of Ta’meem, and Salahiddin were the most polluted cities due to the destruction of mines and huge material and armed forces industries. This resulted in the formation of SOx, NOx, and COx plumes and hydrocarbon smoke clouds. In addition to the pollution that resulted from the burning of thousands of rubber tires used to mislead Tomahawk missiles off their targets (Table 1). Registered cancer cases, congenital malformations and other related diseases are less in these cities than in Basrah [7], which proves that the major cause of the multifold increase of such diseases in the south was the extensive use of DU weapons in 1991 and the following years. Table 1: Contaminants Released to the Environment During the Gulf War of 1991 [5] City Air Pollution burning of Water pollution, release of Soil Pollution Baghdad 224,000 m3 of Hydrocarbons burning and crude oils Soot of burning 2000 rubber tires 300 m³/hr sewage released to soil and Tigris river Underground storage fuel tanks rupture and leaks Ninevah 551 m³ of gas oil 167 m³ gasoline and kerosene 300 liters of HCl 835 Kg of Sodium Hypochlorites 1150 rubber tire burning Release of 1000 m³ of gas oils to surface water 41,457 liters of gas oil to soil Sulaimania No record 40 liters of transformer oils 250 m³ of oil Ta’meem 4,681,000 m³ of crude oil 910 m³ gas oil 285 m³ naphtha 20 × 106 m³ H2S gas 200 m³ liquid gas 50 m³ gasoline 4000 burning of rubber tires No records 60 m³ engine oils 50 l of conc. Acid H2SO4 53,674,000 m³ crude oil Saladdin 6,228,000 m³ of light fuel 8,250,000 m³ of naphtha 288,000 m³ of heavy oils (hydrocarbons) 13,000 m³ turbine 10 m³ engine oil 20 m³ transformers oils 200 tons of ammonium hydroxides sewage 10 m³ of oils Anbar 3,188,000 m³ heavy oils 235,910 m³ of liquefied gas 18,000 tons of raw sulfur 53,600 tons of liquid sulfur No records 223,000 m³ crude oils 100 m³ kerosene 5,616 tons of H2SO4 180 tons of other acids Najaf 1,250,000 m³ of gas oil No records 3000 m³ of gas oil 3000 m³ of turbine oils Babylon 150 m³ of heavy oils 35 m³ of turbine oils 240,000 m³ gas oils 30,000 m³ oils No records 250,000 m³ gas oils Karabala 36,000 m³ heavy oils No records No records Wassit 2000 m³ kerosene 11,000 m³ gasoline 11,000 m³ crude oils No records No records Maissan 23,000 rubber tires burning Plastic and rubbr pipes No records 1000 m³ fuel oil pesticides Qadisiya 86,240 m³ of oils 36,729 rubber tires and pipes No records No records Thi Qar 1000 m³ gasoline No records 10 tons of garbage Muthana No records No records 4 kg of cyanide Basrah 7,032,000 m³ heavy naphtha 84,824 m³ gasoline 20,000 m³ heavy oils 547 m³ solvents 28,000 m³ natural gas 3.4 million barrels of crude oil from carriers 17,000 m³ crude oil 60 m³ kerosene 76 m³ transformers oil 50 m³ turbines oil 15,000 tons sodium hydroxide 40,000 barrels crude oil 1.314 million barrels of crude oil The American and British occupation forces are totally responsible for: 1- Forbidding any release of statistics related to civilian casualties after the occupation [8]. 2- Refusal to clean up contaminated areas [9]. 3- Depriving international agencies and Iraqi researchers the right to conduct full (DU) related exploration programs by USA occupation forces [2] to prevent further damages is the best evidence that these forces are covering up their certain conclusive evidence of the harmful health impacts of DU. All these acts are crimes against humanity because these weapons are causing undifferentiated harm and suffering to civilians in all contaminated areas. Health effects can range from fatigue and muscular pain to genetic disorder, chromosome aberrations, and malignancies. Existence of DU in the environment will maintain continuous exposure to both toxic and radioactive effects which represent continuous systematic attacks on civilians in an armed conflict (Article 4 of the official regulations and article 7 of ICC). In this paper the genuine scientific efforts of the Iraqi scientists and researchers who tried hard to define and prove the (DU) contaminated areas in southern Iraq and its health consequences will be reviewed. Most of these researches couldn’t find their way to international peer-reviewed journals because of the comprehensive sanctions imposed on Iraq, even thought they have been published in Iraqi universities scientific peer-reviewed journals. We feel obligated to let the world know that some of these researches cost the authors their lives e.g. Dr. Alim Abdul Hameed Yacoub who was killed, along with his son, when his car was forced off the highway on the way to his home town of Basrah after being attacked twice at his home by pro-occupation militias two weeks before his death. They cost other researchers their freedom, such as Dr. Huda Ammash who was accused of being (Lady Anthrax) and imprisoned without any real accusation for 3 years. The assassination of 250 Iraqi scientists after Iraq’s invasion by occupation militias is the best way not to continue any kind of research including DU-related research [12] in occupied Iraq. 2.0 Schemes of DU related research that have been conducted and published in Iraq (1991-2003): We can classify research and studies that have been conducted by Iraqi researchers into the following schemes: 2.1 Detection and modeling of DU contamination through site measurements and laboratory tests. In 1993 the first Iraqi team of researchers from the Iraqi Atomic Commission and the science college of Baghdad University [7] [13] investigated the increase of DU related radioactivity in selected areas west of Al-Basrah where destroyed tanks and vehicles with DU ammunition were still laying around. The areas were: Northern Rumaila oil fields, Al-Shamia, Kharanje, Rumaila and Jabal Sanam. Exposure measurements revealed the existence of DU contamination in the studied areas. Tables 1, 2, and 3 show the results of these measurements. Table (2) Field Measurements at North Rumaila Area [7] Type of Chose Sample Background Chosen Sample 1 Armoured Personnel Carrier BMB-1 8.1 24.6 2 Armoured Personnel Carrier MTLB 8.2 9.7 3 T-72 Tank 8.7 15.1 4 Rescue Tank 7.2 13.2 Table (3) Field Measurements at Shamia Airffield /Gudairat al-Audhaimi Area [7] Type of Chose Sample Background Chosen Sample 1 T-72 Tank 7.0 60.8 2 Armoured Personnel Carrier (Watercan) 7.2 60.3 3 Far away area from chosen sample (1)/ T-72 7.1 7.3 4 Far away area from chosen sample (2)/ Watercan 7.3 7.2 Table (4) Field Measurements at DMZ and Surrounding Area [7] Type of Chose Sample Background Chosen Sample 1 Unexploded DU Warhead (near Karrange Oil Pumping Station on the Iraqi-Saudi border 7.4 83 2 Tank/T-55 (between crossroads Nos. 13 and 14) 7.6 21 3 Tank/T-72 (No. 16107) 7.2 23 4 Tank/T-55 (left of crossroads No. 9) 7.4 67 5 Tank/T-72 (near international observation post between crossroads Nos. 12 and 13) 7.6 69 6 Tank/T-72 (south west on Mount Sanam) 7.0 65 * Exposure measurements (Micro Roentgen/hr) In 1996 Al-Azzawi and her team conducted a comprehensive exploration program through the Environmental Engineering Deptartment in Baghdad University [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19] (Al-Azzawi et al). The program involved taking hundreds of exposure measurements, soil samples, surface waterway channels, sediments and bio-samples from vegetation cover, fish and grazing animal tissues from areas of heavy military engagement during the first Gulf War like Safwan, Jabal Sanam, al-Zubair, Northern Rumaila oil fields, and Southern Rumaila Oil Fields (Figures 1 and 2). Scintillation counters were used for exposure measurements and high purity germanium detectors for soil and sediment samples, surface and ground water samples and bio-samples. Selected measurements from exploration program results are shown in (Table 5). Modeling pollution transport from hundreds of destroyed artilleries to surrounding areas showed the following extensions of DU contamination in the area from 1991 – 1996 [17] [18] [19]: - 1718 km² of soil contaminated with DU oxides and particles, - 140,000 m² of channel sediments, - 845, 100 tons of vegetation cover Table 5 : Selected Exposure and Soil Radioactivity Measurements [15] Sample Symbol Location Type of Sampled Target Exposure µR/hr Activity Concentration in Soil (Bq/Kg) Th234 U235 U235 / U 238 S-2-2 Northern Jabal Sanam A1 28.6 3918 41.9 0.01069 S-2-9 Northern Jabal Sanam T13 30.5 4401 57.1 0.0129 SN-1-2 Jabal Sanam T1 36.8 11400 183 0.0167 SN-2-3 Jabal Sanam T2 17.1 2550 47.3 0.0185 S-4-1 NW Jabal Sanam T4 15.3 3408 30.9 0.009 S-5-3 North Safwan City T5 16.3 7310 79 0.010 S-6-2 North Safwan City T6 14.4 2019 36.3 0.017 R-1-6 Northern Rumeila Oil Field T7 75.5 27800 375 0.013 R-3-2 Northern Rumeila Oil Field T8 58 79100 119 0.014 R-4-3 Northern Rumeila Oil Field A4 43 9700 70.3 0.007 RK-1-1 Southern Rumaila Oil Field T9 80.8 55700 901 0.0161 RK-2-2 Southern Rumaila Oil Field T10 51.9 40900 531 0.013 RK-3-2 Southern Rumaila Oil Field T11 42.1 21700 198 0.009 RK-4-1 Southern Rumaila Oil Field T12 43 31600 229 0.007 S-7-3 Jabal Sanam A2 48 3120 25.1 0.008 T: Destroyed Tank A: Destroyed Armored Vehicle Risk assessment related to previous measurements showed that people in the western part of Basrah City, and the Iraqi and American troops received a total whole body radioactive dosage of (442 – 577) mSv [20] [21], mostly in the first six months of 1991 Gulf War military operations. In 1999 – 2000 a follow-up exploration program in the same area was done by the Environmental Engineering Department (Al-Azzawi et al) through which site exposure, and soil sediments, water samples, and laboratory tests were also conducted in previously studied areas plus areas where most of the DU contaminated tanks were gathered, on the banks of Wafaa Al Qaied waterway causing further contamination [22] [23]. Results of this program indicated the existence of slightly higher radioactivity in some of the areas, but generally sand storms and the weathering process contributed to the dispersion of these contaminants to nearby populated areas. Table (6) shows conclusions of the the results of these tests and measurements. Table (6): Conclusion of (1999 – 2000) Exploration Program in Basrah Type of Measurement No. A * No. B ** Range of Measurements Background Levels Units Exposure 120 17 8.2 – 11.6 4 – 7 µR/hr Soil 120 22 80 – 788 42 – 70 Bq/Kg Surface and Ground Water 75 -- Not detected Not detected Bq/l Waterway Sediment Samples 13 10 50 – 85 30 – 40 Bq/Kg * No. A: Number of Samples ** No. B: Number of Samples with Higher Activity Also in 1999-2000 Al-Azzawi, Maarouf and Al-Mousori investigated the possibility of radiological contamination in Ninevah Governorate and its center Mosul City [Northern Iraq (Map 2)] after being attacked during 1999 by new generations (AGM 154 J50W) of Cruise missiles on three targets on the eastern bank of Tigris River in Mosul city. The program also involved checking the extension of Chernobyl plume on Iraqi territories after 13 years [24]. Results of this program (Table 7) showed slightly higher radioactivity in and around destroyed targeted areas than other areas of Mosul and Ninevah governerate. These results proved that Cruise Missiles also contain DU. Table (7): Conclusion of Ninevah and Mosul City Exploration Program of 2000 [24] Type of Measurement Area No. A * No. B ** Range of Measurements Background Levels Units Exposure Ninevah 48 18 8.5 – 14 7 µR/hr Exposure Mosul City 62 21 8.5 – 14 7 µR/hr Soil Ninevah 29 5 80 – 107 -- Bq/Kg Soil Mosul City 48 18 100 – 142 -- Bq/Kg Water Mosul City 4 None -- -- -- * No. A: Number of Samples ** No. B: Number of Samples with Higher Activity Tawfiq, N. F. et al in 2000 [25] measured alpha-emitters concentrations in soil samples from different Iraqi cities using Solid State Nuclear Track detectors CR-39 and CN-85. Her team found out that high concentration radioisotopes of (7.8) ppm was measured in Muthana governorate. The Dutch troops later in 2003 refused to camp in the center of Muthana, Samawa City, due to high DU related radioactivity detection by those troops. After a few days they finally moved to a nearby desert area [26]. It was also confirmed by Dr. Durakovich that New York Guardsmen serving in Samawe during 2003 were exposed to DU [27]. Other cities with high radioisotope concentrations are Basrah (7.2) ppm, Nasria(Al-Shatra)(6.2) ppm. Generally, locations where the Iraqi withdrawing tanks were intercepted by US troops, and where the massacre of February 27 occurred- and Iraqi POWs were buried alive under the order of General Macaffery [28]. In 2000, Al-Gurabi, S. and her team measured DU related increases in radioactivity along the areas bordering Kuwait and Saudia Arabia. They also measured Northern Rumaila Oil Field areas and northwest Basrah City [3]. Results showed higher activity concentrations of DU related radioisotopes in all investigated areas except the center of Basrah City. In 2001-2002 Butras, Wartan and Butras [29] measured radioactivity in three different areas of Basrah using Alpha and Beta measuring LB1200 detectors. The measured areas: A: Iraqi-Saudi-Kuwaiti borders B: Qurna, Zubair, Faw and Umm Kasir seaport. C: Shatt Al-Arab district in Basrah Results proved the existence of higher radioactivity measurements than background levels of (18*10-3) mRm/hr in area (A) after 10 years of the war. Umm Kasir area registered (10 * 10-3 ) mRm/hr. Normal background levels in the area are within the range of 7 – 8 * 10-3 mRm/hr [34]. In 2000, Al-Kinani, et al [30] collected (11) soil samples from Safwan, S. Rumaila and unarmed border zone using gamma radiation detector. Results indicated that (7) of these samples were contaminated with DU radioisotopes. Sample (SSI) U235/U238 ratio was found to be (0.00351) which indicates highly DU contamination under that destroyed tank. Other ratios ranged between (0.0041-0.0037). Dozens of other studies were made and published in Arabic or English peer-reviewed scientific journals of various Iraqi universities. The published investigation programs were all conducted by well-known professors and researchers who followed the IAEA and other international scientific standards procedures. All research and radiological laboratory tests that were done in conjunction of the environmental department of the Iraqi Atomic Commission were searched and reviewed by periodic inspection teams of the IAEA who were checking the IAEC activities throughout the nineties until the invasion of Iraq in 2003. A UNEP report in 2005 specified the existence of 311 sites related to DU contamination without any measurements [43]. 2.2 Epidemiological Studies Related to (DU) Contamination Health Effects: Epidemiological studies about the correlation between (DU) radioactive contamination and the increase of malignancies incidence rates in Basrah Governorate have been noticed and studied by Al-Basra college of Medicine faculty members since 1995. Some of these studies were published in the University of Basrah Medical Journal. Others were presented in the two Iraqi conferences about the effect of economical sanction and the (DU) weaponry use against the human and environment in Iraq, held in 1998 and 2002 respectively. Results of these studies pointed out very important facts concerning the direct correlation between DU radiological contamination and the resulted increase of the related diseases in geographically contaminated areas. Among others, the following studies are specifically important: - 1998: Alim Yacoub et al [31] [32] presented an analysis of recorded cases of registered malignant diseases among children under 15 years of age in Basrah for the period (1990 – 1997). This analysis showed a rise of 60% in children’s leukemia from 1990 to 1997. Also, a 120% increase in all malignant cases among children under the age of 15 for the same period were registered. The study also showed the shift of age distribution of leukemia cases towards younger, than 5 years of age from 13% in 1990 to 41% of total cases in 1997. - 1998 Al-Sadoon, et al [33] showed a three fold increase in congenital malformations registered cases in 1998 compared to 1990. Congenital heart diseases, chromosomal aberrations, and multiple malformations all indicate exposure to teratogenic environmental factor. - In 1998, Alim Yacoub et, al [34] also introduced an analysis of the incidence and pattern of malignant diseases in Basra from the analysis of the histo-pathological reports of Basra University Teaching Hospital for the period 1990-1997. The study indicated that there was a rise of about 160% in reported cases of uterine cancer in 1997 compared to 1990 and an increase of 143% in thyroid cancer cases in 1997 compared to 1990 recordings. Also a 102% increase in breast cancer and 82% rise in lymphomas in 1997 compared to 1990. The shift in the types of the five major leading malignancies in Basrah in 1997 were malignant diseases such as breast, bladder, lymphomas, uterine, and skin cancers. While those of 1990 were malignant diseases of bladder, skin, breast, lung and larynx. - 2002: Alim Yacoub, Imad Al-Sadoon and Jenan Hasan presented a paper [35] that examines the association between exposure to DU radiation and the rising incidence of malignancies among children in Basra through time sequence criteria, and dose-response criteria through the geographical shift of the increase of incidence rates in Al-Zubair and other western areas from less than 5/100,000 prior to 1993 to 22/100,000 in 2000 compared to only Al-Hartha area (north of Basrah) only prior to 1993 (with highest incidence rates of > 10/100,000 in 1993). They also tested the biological plausibility criteria through the shift of the increase of leukemia incidence rate towards younger ages of less than 5 years old after 1995. Figures 3, 4, and 5 conclude these results. Yacoub et al, 2002, couldn’t explain the reason for the constant increase of malignancies incidence rates among children in Al-Hartha district in northern Basrah City, figure 2, from (10 incidents / 100,000) to (42.7 / 100,000) in the year 2000. This can be explained by the existence of the largest electrical power generation and transformation facilities in Iraq of 800 MW. This power plant was destroyed during air raids several times in 1991. Nobody measured the radioactivity in Al-Hartha, which might also have been destroyed with DU bombing. - 2002: Abbas Ali & Jawad Ali [26] presented an evaluation of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) annual incidence which started to rise from 1995 up to the year 2000, when the increase began to plateau. 2.3 DU Effects on Human Health Pathological Studies: 1998: Huda Ammash- Professor of Molecular Biology in the Science College of the University of Baghdad- presented a paper on the mechanisms of toxicity induced by free radicals resulting from irradiation with DU and ionization of the atmosphere in Iraq [37][38]. This paper pinpointed the need for DU toxicity researches on enzymes (SOD), Caralase, hydrogenates and Glyceraldehydes Dehydrogenates levels. She also presented the multiaborative cases on the DNA level where out of 50 studied cases, 29 cases were found with DNA abnormalities (with no hereditary evidence). Other multiaborative cases investigating the toxoplasmosis effect showed that out of 130 cases, over 65% more were infected than those recorded in 1989. 2002: Muhammed, Z.T. et al [39] published a paper about the effects of DU radiation on the human immune system enzyme. A group of (26) Iraqi veterans who were exposed to DU radiation with (43) control individuals were all subjected to tests for Adenosine DA Amines (ADN) enzyme activity. Results indicated mean activity of the enzyme of the exposed individuals of (0.184 ±0.016) U/g protein, while the unexposed individuals enzyme activity (0.291 ±0.022)U/mg protein. ADA enzyme activity in the exposed individuals were found to be significantly lower than the control group. P<0.05 significant correlation coefficient was found between ADA activity as an important immune enzyme and related clinical signs and symptoms related to defective cellular immune functions. 2002: Ammash, H., Alwan, L. and Marouf, B.A. published a paper (in Arabic) [40] about the results of Genetic hematological analysis for a group of individuals lives in DU contaminated areas southern Iraq. Blood tests for the (47) individuals who lived in Basra contaminated areas and other (30) individuals as a control group who lived in Baghdad were conducted with the study of other clinical and correlated factors. Blood tests included hemoglobin concentration, packed cell volume test (PCV), total count (WBC) test and chromosomal changes and defects tests. Factors such as exposure type and exposure time due to nature of work were taken into consideration (45% of the studied groups are from Iraqi troops who were involved in military engagements of the Gulf War 1). The others were civilians who lived in contaminated areas. The test results of the study clearly showed that a 21% of the studied individuals in Basrah group suffered a reduction in hemoglobin concentration of (9-13) g/dl. The other 79% of the individuals from Al-Basrah studied groups with normal hemoglobin concentrations of (12-15) g/dl and (13-18) g/dl for males and females in the group respectively. The blood Packed Cell Volume (PCV) test results showed that 25.5% of the Basrah study group showed abnormal (PCV) rates of (30-39)% less than the normal rate. One male’s individual blood (PCV) was 3% higher than normal. Other individuals’ blood (PCV) in the studied group had normal rates ranging between (40-54)%. Total count of white blood cells (WBC) test results showed that 8% of the individuals in the Basrah study group have (WBC) less than normal which is 4000 c/ml or higher than the normal rate or (11000) c/ml. Control group individuals all had normal (WBC). Compound chromosomal changes in the lymphocytes of periphal blood of the individuals of the Basrah studied group have been found at a ratio of (0.1118)% which is significantly higher than that of the control group. The ratio of dicenteric and ringcentric chromosomal abnormality fraction was found to be (0.04479) which is also higher than ordinary ratio. Chromosomal damages were mostly in male veteran individuals. One case was that of a 13-year-old at the time of exposure in Al-Zubair contaminated area. In 2000: From the Veterinary College of Basrah University, Khadier, A.A. et al [41] conducted a study to detect levels of DU related radioactivity in pastures and animals within the contaminated areas of Safwan, Al-Zubair, N. Rumaila, Jabal Sanam, Kharanje Village, etc. Blood samples from sheep and other grazing animals were collected. Analysis of blood samples using Lyoluminescence and Track Detectors proved the existing of very small concentrations of radioisotopes in a few sheep that fed from and around the destroyed artillery and tanks within the studied areas. It is believed the polluted dust on the leaves was the source of radioisotopes in the tested blood samples. 2002: Al-Sadi, H.I. and Sawad, A. [42] from the Veterinary College of the University of Basrah also presented a study about the pathological conditions of the animals in Basrah. The study reported the existing of three types of animal neoplasm; seminoma in rams, mesotheliomas in buffalo, and ovarian cystademonas in bitches. These types of neoplasms have never been reported in these regions before the Nineties. Also some types of congenital defects in farm animals have been described. 3. 0 Conclusion: 1- The USA and UK continuously used Depleted Uranium weapons against the population and environment in Iraq from 1991 until today. 2- Occupation forces in Iraq intentionally denied and covered up the types, locations and amounts of weapons that were used to prevent taking measures which could reduce health damages resulting from LLR exposure. 3- Occupation forces prohibited UNEP, WHO and other international agencies to conduct any exploration programs to assess the health risks to the people of Iraq of these radioactive contaminants. 4- Forbidding the release of any casualty statistics by the health ministry in Iraq right after the occupation is part of the crime that has been continuously committed against Iraq and Iraqis. 5- Exploration programs and site measurements proved without a doubt that the existence of DU related radioactive contamination all over most of Iraq (except the northern area of Kurdistan). 6- Published epidemiological studies in Basrah introduced a clear correlation between DU related exposure to LLR and the multifold increase of malignancies, congenital malformations and multiple malformations in detected DU contaminated areas. 7- Other pathological and hematological studies indicated the existence of chromosomal and DNA aberrations and abnormalities in the 1991 Iraqi Gulf War veterans. Other studies proved their effects on lowering the activities of the human immune system in exposed individuals. 8- Iraqi researchers’ site measurements of 2000 revealed the fact that the Muthana governorate and Al-Samawa city were contaminated since 1991. This fact was proven by the Dutch troops in 2003, and then the American Guardsmen who served in that area after the invasion and confirmed exposure to DU contamination after coming back home by Dr. Drakovic. 9- Intentional continuous use of DU against the people and environment of Iraq is a crime against humanity due to its undifferentiated harmful health impacts on civilian long times after the military operations. Existing DU contamination in the surrounding environment is a continuous source of (LLR) exposure to civilians which can be considered systematic attacks on civilians in an armed conflict. Article 4 of the official regulations and Article 7 of the ICC. 4.0 Recommendations: In light of the stated facts and evidences, the following is recommended: 1- Occupation forces must allow UNEP to conduct a full exploration program in Iraq in order to assess human health and environmental damages caused by these weapons since 1991. 2- Occupation forces should clearly submit all necessary information and data about the types, amounts, and locations of all DU expenditures that have been used on Iraqi territories. 3- Occupation forces should allow WHO to conduct comprehensive health surveys and investigations in DU contaminated areas to help the Iraqi people and children coping with the consequences of DU related health damages. 4- Occupation forces should help in managing all contaminated wreckage and destroyed contaminated artilleries, top soil, waterways, bottom sediments through a comprehensive clean-up and remedy plan. 5- The doors for further research must be opened concerning studies about the impact of DU on the population and the environment in Iraq. 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