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Depleted Uranium Use Illegal US Forces' Use of DR DOUG ROKKE, PhD, earned his Depleted Uranium B.S. in Physics at Western Illinois University followed by his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics and Weapons is 'Illegal' technology education at the University of Illinois. His military career has spanned 4 decades to include combat duty during the Vietnam War and by Neil Mackay Gulf War 1. Doug served as a member of the 3rd U.S. Army Medical Command's Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC) teaching, Originally Published on Sunday, March 30, medical response, and special operations team, the 2003 by The Sunday Herald (Scotland) 3rd U.S. Army captured equipment project team, and with the 3rd U.S. Army Depleted Uranium BRITISH and American coalition forces Assessment team during Gulf War 1(Operation are using depleted uranium (DU) shells in the DR DOUG ROKKE Desert Storm). He was the U.S. Army's Depleted war against Iraq and deliberately flouting a Uranium Project director from 1994 - 1995. He United Nations resolution which classifies the developed the congressionally mandated munitions as illegal weapons of mass rounds or some 2700 tons of DU tipped bombs. education and training materials and wrote U.S. destruction. A UK Atomic Energy Authority report said that Army Regulation 700-48, the U.S. Army PAM DU contaminates land, causes ill-health some 500,000 people would die before the end 700-48, and the U.S. Army's common task for DU and cancers among the soldiers using the of this century, due to radioactive debris left in incidents. Doug has taught nuclear, biological and weapons, the armies they target and civilians, the desert. chemical warfare, hazardous materials, and leading to birth defects in children. The use of DU has also led to birth emergency medicine for over 20 years to both Professor Doug Rokke, ex-director of civilian and military personnel. Dr. Rokke was the Pentagon's depleted uranium project -- a defects in the children of Allied veterans and is one of the original authors of the 1982 EDRAT believed to be the cause of the 'worrying former professor of environmental science at number of anophthalmos cases -- babies born (Emergency Disaster Response Assistance Team) proposal which formed the foundation for today's Jacksonville University and onetime US army without eyes' in Iraq. Only one in 50 million National Guard CSD teams and the Illinois CERT colonel who was tasked by the US department births should be anophthalmic, yet one Baghdad Teams. In preparation for the 1996 Atlanta of defense with the post-first Gulf war depleted hospital had eight cases in just two years. Seven Olympics, he wrote and taught the original uranium desert clean-up -- said use of DU was a of the fathers had been exposed to American Chemical / Biological Counter-terrorism Course 'war crime'. DU anti-tank rounds in 1991. There have also for civilian emergency responders that is now the Rokke said: 'There is a moral point to be federal 120 city and Department of Justice course made here. This war was about Iraq possessing been cases of Iraqi babies born without the then served on the emergency response team crowns of their skulls, a deformity also linked to illegal weapons of mass destruction -- yet we DU shelling. located at Bermingham, Alabama . Dr. Rokke are using weapons of mass destruction A study of Gulf war veterans showed serves or has served as an advisor with the U.S. ourselves.' He added: 'Such double-standards that 67% had children with severe illnesses, Centers of Disease Control; U.S. Department of are repellent.' missing eyes, blood infections, respiratory Defense; U.S. National Academy of Sciences; The latest use of DU in the current U.S. Institute of Medicine; U.S Senate; U.S. conflict came on Friday when an American A10 problems and fused fingers. House of Representatives; U.S. Department of Rokke told the Sunday Herald: 'A tankbuster plane fired a DU shell, killing one nation's military personnel cannot wilfully Transportation; U.S. Federal Aviation British soldier and injuring three others in a contaminate any other nation, cause harm to Administration; U.S. Department of Defense; 'friendly fire' incident. persons and the environment and then ignore U.S. General Accounting Office; U.S. Department According to a August 2002 report by of Veterans Affairs; British Royal Society; British the UN subcommission, laws which are the consequences of their actions. House of Lords and House of Commons; United 'To do so is a crime against humanity. breached by the use of DU shells include: the 'We must do what is right for the citizens Nations; U.S. President William J. Clinton's Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the of the world -- ban DU.' Presidential Special Oversight Board; and local, Charter of the United Nations; the Genocide He called on the US and UK to state, and federal law enforcement, fire, and Convention; the Convention Against Torture; 'recognize the immoral consequences of their medical agencies. He has been an advisor and on- numerous television screen expert for the four Geneva Conventions of 1949; the actions and assume responsibility for medical documentaries on effects of nuclear, biological, Conventional Weapons Convention of 1980; care and thorough environmental remediation'. and chemical warfare and depleted uranium with and the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, He added: 'We can't just use munitions CBS; ABC; NBC, CNN, History Channel; A & E; which expressly forbid employing 'poison or which leave a toxic wasteland behind them and PBS; Discovery channel, BBC; CBC; Gary Null poisoned weapons' and 'arms, projectiles or kill indiscriminately. & Associates; the Power Hour; and German, materials calculated to cause unnecessary 'It is equivalent to a war crime.' French, Japanese, Australian, Italian, Spanish, and suffering'. All of these laws are designed to Rokke said that coalition troops were Greek television networks. Dr. Rokke has taught spare civilians from unwarranted suffering in currently fighting in the Gulf without adequate undergraduate and graduate courses in armed conflicts. respiratory protection against DU environmental science, environmental DU has been blamed for the effects of engineering, nuclear physics, and emergency Gulf war syndrome -- typified by chronic contamination. management and was a staff physicist at the The Sunday Herald has previously muscle and joint pain, fatigue and memory loss revealed how the Ministry of Defense had test- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 19 -- among 200,000 US soldiers after the 1991 fired some 6350 DU rounds into the Solway years (retired from UIUC). He has also taught conflict. Firth over more than a decade, from 1989 to elementary school, middle school, and high It is also cited as the most likely cause of school. Doug is included in "Who's Who in the 'increased number of birth deformities and 1999. [] America" and was recently nominated for "Who's cancer in Iraq' following the first Gulf war. Who in the World" and is included in "Who's Who 'Cancer appears to have increased Listen to in Science and Engineering" because his between seven and 10 times and deformities Dr Doug Rokke continued efforts and recognition as a national and between four and six times,' according to the international expert and educator. Major Rokke UN subcommission. on The ‘X’ Zone Radio has been subjected to ongoing retaliation from The Pentagon has admitted that 320 Department of Defense officials who do not want metric tons of DU were left on the battlefield Show with Rob information regarding actual adverse health and environmental effects of uranium weapons and after the first Gulf war, although Russian their mandatory but ignored requirements to military experts say 1000 metric tons is a more McConnell at provide medical care to all casualties and to clean accurate figure. In 1991, the Allies fired 944,000 DU www.xzonepodcast.com up all environmental contamination. - www.grassrootspeace.org