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» Depleted Uranium - Silent Genocide to Haunt Perpetrators - Provides collection of links on the effects of DU in Iraq and elsewhere.

» Depleted Uranium in the Persian Gulf War - Collection of articles depicting the usuage of Depleted Uranium tipped weapons during the Persian Gulf War.

» Environmental Pollution Resulting from the Use of Depleted Uranium Missiles during the Aggression against Iraq - Study submitted by the government of the Republic of Iraq to the United Nations.

» Environmental Ruin in Iraq - Iraq Action Coalition information on the effects of the sanctions and military war on the environment. Provides information on depleted uranium.

» Gulf War Shells Could be Causing Children's Cancers - An increase in rates of cancer in children born in Iraq has led to fears that weapons used in the Gulf War may in some way be responsible. BBC News.

» South Movement No Nukes - Depleted uranium in Iraq: dead children and sick soldiers.

» UNHCR: Human Rights and Toxics: Depleted Uranium and the Gulf War - Official evidence from the International Educational Development/Humanitarian Law Project that the US did use Depleted Uranium in the gulf war and that "Scientific studies indicate if as much as one small particle (<5 microns in diameter) enters the lungs, the lungs and surrounding tissue will be exposed to 270 times the radiation permitted for workers in the radiation industry."

» Uranium Weapons 2001-2003 Hazards for Iraq - Suspected uranium warheads in US hard target guided weapons verified by US Patents. Provides analysis of collected studies and public domain sources.

» Discounted Casualties - The human cost of depleted uranium. People exposed to depleted uranium and other toxic substances during the Gulf War are now tormented by leukemia and a whole array of chronic disorders. Chugoku Shimbun. (April 3, 2000)

» Does Iraq's Depleted Uranium Pose a Health Risk? - Key points of a literature review. The Lancet. (February 28, 1998)

» Pentagon Poison: The Great Radioactive Ammo Cover-Up - Rounds made of depleted uranium have exposed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of G.I.s to radiation without warning -- here's evidence the army knew the danger. [The Nation Online] (May 26, 1997)

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