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Title: U.S. Reports Five Soldiers Killed In Iraq
Source: United Press International
URL Source: http://www.postchronicle.com/news/b ... ingnews/article_21268681.shtml
Published: Mar 12, 2007
Author: UPI
Post Date: 2007-03-12 13:26:55 by Brian S
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Mar 12, 2007

The U.S. military said Monday five of its soldiers were killed and two others were injured in separate incidents in Iraq on Sunday.

Three of the deaths were not combat-related, Kuwait's KUNA news agency reported.

In Baghdad, gunmen opened fire on the motorcade of Iraq's minister of agriculture, killing one of his bodyguards and injuring another, CNN reported.

Security officials said 21 bodies had been found scattered around the city on Sunday, most of which showed signs of torture.

Sectarian fighting between Shiite and Sunni Muslims has plagued the Iraqi government's attempts at reconstruction for more than 14 months.

About 60 miles from Baghdad in Muqdadiya, a New York Times correspondent said sectarian fighting turned to arson during the weekend. As many as 100 homes and other buildings were torched, the report said.

Victims from both sects blamed Sunni extremists who have taken over several towns in the area and are demanding protection money, the report said. (c) UPI

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#1. To: Brian S (#0)

Sectarian fighting between Shiite and Sunni Muslims has plagued the Iraqi government's attempts at reconstruction for more than 14 months.

Sectarian violence has kept the number of attacks on US troops down as insurgents have to allocate resources, time, and manpower to fighting each other. So, in other words, the US occupation benefits from this violence and is more than likely responsible for many of these "Car bombs".

Burkeman1  posted on  2007-03-12   13:32:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Sectarian fighting between Shiite and Sunni Muslims has plagued the Iraqi government's attempts at reconstruction for more than 14 months.

Sectarian violence has kept the number of attacks on US troops down as insurgents have to allocate resources, time, and manpower to fighting each other. So, in other words, the US occupation benefits from this violence and is more than likely responsible for many of these "Car bombs".

BAC was busy defending the use of white phosphorus and DU, so he asked me to handle his response to you.

So typical of you, Burqaman, to resort to innuendo and slander against our troops when you have no evidence of wrongdoing. You have no evidence that Negroponte ordered Shia death squads to operate against Sunni. It was just a coincidence that Blackbridge went to Iraq and Iraq went to hell. And the rumors about the "Salvador option" are baseless slanders that have unjustly and tragically kept Negroponte from enjoying vacations in Central America for years. While you hide behind your keyboard and smugly ask "cui bono?", our brave troops are fighting and dying and playing video games in the holy ground of American sacrifice. Why do you hate America?

How's that, BAC? This time, I don't want to hear about a pipeline or a backlog; I want that check in my mailbox tomorrow.

leveller  posted on  2007-03-12   17:06:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

BAC was busy defending the use of white phosphorus and DU

Has he really tried to defend this?

robin  posted on  2007-03-12   17:16:19 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

leveller - BAC was busy defending the use of white phosphorus and DU

Has he really tried to defend this?

... when its use will save the life of our soldiers.

BeAChooser  posted on  2007-03-12   19:25:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

leveller - BAC was busy defending the use of white phosphorus and DU

Has he really tried to defend this?

... when its use will save the life of our soldiers.

It was worse than I had remembered!

leveller  posted on  2007-03-12   20:57:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

... when its use will save the life of our soldiers.

It was worse than I had remembered!

DU is killing our soldiers. White phosphorus has underlined our new reputation as war criminals, so Israel isn't the only war criminals anymore.

robin  posted on  2007-03-12   21:42:45 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

DU is killing our soldiers.

Your proof for this?

Because health physicists ... who are the experts in such matters ... say it isn't.

In fact, I couldn't find one who says it does.

BeAChooser  posted on  2007-03-12   22:15:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#27. To: BeAChooser (#23)

Your proof for this?

Give this a listen:

Father grieves the death of his soldier-son from toxic DU poisoning

Arator  posted on  2007-03-12 23:21:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

robin: DU is killing our soldiers.

BeAChooser: Your proof for this?

Because health physicists ... who are the experts in such matters ... say it isn't.

In fact, I couldn't find one who says it does.

Seems there's rumbling coming out of Europe, too...

Uranium 'killing Italian troops'

By Christian Fraser BBC News, Rome 10 January 2007, 09:59 GMT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ europe/6247401.stm

Italian soldiers are still dying following exposure to depleted uranium in the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, their relatives say.

Troops who served during the wars in the 1990s believe they have contracted cancer and other serious illnesses from extended exposure to the munitions.

The US says it fired around 40,000 depleted uranium rounds during the Bosnian and Kosovo conflicts.

A pressure group says 50 veterans have died and another 200 are seriously ill.

Depleted uranium is used on the tips of bullets and shells. Because of its density it can pierce the armour plating on tanks.

But when it explodes it often leaves a footprint of chemically poisonous and radioactive dust.

The Italians who served in Bosnia and Kosovo were involved in the clear-up of battlefields and came into close contact with exploded ammunition.

Children with disabilities

The association representing the soldiers, known as Anavafaf, says many of those who have died or are ill have contracted cancer.

In 2002 the Italian defence ministry published a report compiled by independent scientists which found a higher than average number of servicemen were suffering from cancer.

It said there was an excessive number of Hodgkin's disease victims among Italian Balkan peacekeepers.

A number of children fathered by the soldiers have been born with disabilities.

There are similar reports from soldiers' associations in Belgium, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands.

Both the US and Britain acknowledge the dust from depleted uranium can be dangerous if inhaled but they insist the danger is short-lived and localised.

scrapper2  posted on  2007-03-14 18:10:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

robin: DU is killing our soldiers.

BeAChooser: Your proof for this?

Because health physicists ... who are the experts in such matters ... say it isn't.

In fact, I couldn't find one who says it does.

I think you'll see various "experts" named in Point #13 including a Japanese radiation expert, Professor Katsuma Yagasaki, ( and who should know better the health risks and dangers of radiation than Japanese researchers?) as well as a noted health expert on DU formerly employed by the US Government to do research on this very subject and who is currently doing similar research for the Canadian government, Dr. Durakovik. BAC, be careful what you wish for because sometimes you get your wish - stuffed into your ill-informed face. Tah tah - learn what the experts say about DU and also read how the judge ruled and his recommendations regarding the US gov'ts use of DU.

http://www.ratical.or g/radiation/DU/ICTforAatT.html

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR AFGHANISTAN AT TOKYO

Final Written Opinion of Judge Niloufer Bhagwat 10 March 2004

THE PEOPLE

Versus

GEORGE WALKER BUSH

President of the United States of America

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR AFGHANISTAN AT TOKYO

The Prosecution has presented a formidable Indictment against the Defendant, George Walker Bush, President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of US military forces for serious crimes: waging a war of aggression on Afghanistan, war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Afghan people, against prisoners of war and the use of radioactive depleted uranium weapons of mass destruction, against the people of Afghanistan, with serious fall out effects on the military personnel of the United States, UK and other forces deployed, and on countries in and around the region.

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13. Use of genocidal and omnicidal radioactive Depleted Uranium weapons in Afghanistan, a war crime, genocide, and omnicide

The evidence presented before the Tribunal, which has shocked the conscience of the judges of this Tribunal, is the thoroughly researched evidence on the genocidal and omnicidal nature of Depleted Uranium weapons used in Afghanistan by United States military forces, with the Defendant as their Commander-in- Chief by Leuren Moret, President, Scientists For Indigenous People, City of Berkeley Environmental Commissioner; Professor Katsuma Yagasaki of the Faculty of Science of the Ryukyus University, Okinawa; and of Major Doug Rokke, Professor of Physics and Geosciences of Jacksonville State University, former Director of DU weapons project of the US army from 1994-1995 in charge of the cleaning up of DU in Iraq, himself affected by DU.

These three witnesses made available to this Tribunal, details of their investigations, scientific documents, memorandum from the US army sources and the Manhattan project; statistical studies of people of Iraq, children and others exposed to DU ordnance after the first Gulf War, including from the Gulf War Veterans Association, on the nature of this weapon; which prove beyond doubt that the Defendant as Commander-in-Chief of US forces used DU weapons in Afghanistan, in the manner that Zyklon-B was used across Europe; as a weapon of mass murder in Afghanistan calculated to destroy of all living species exposed.

Professor Albrecht Schott, Scientist, World Depleted Uranium Centre, Berlin in an address titled "Consequences of the Military and Civil Use of Depleted Uranium (DU)", at the public symposium on `American Policy and its Consequences', has described Depleted Uranium as "A Weapon Against This Planet." Prosecution Document E-130; this leads logically to the word "Omnicide" used by witness Leuren Moret, among other scientists while describing the effect of this weapon system; as going beyond the "silent genocide" it has inflicted on the Afghan and Iraqi people.

Rosalie Bertell author of the classic book No Immediate Danger has given the following comprehensive meaning of the term Omnicide as:

"The concept of species annihilation means a relatively swift, deliberately induced end to history, culture, science, biological reproduction and memory. It is the ultimate human rejection of the gift of life, an act which requires a new word to describe it as omnicide."

The use of DU ordnance in Afghanistan by the United States military forces has not been denied. The US military forces with the Defendant as Commander-in- Chief, with full knowledge of the nature and impact of the weapons system, known to the Manhattan project as early as 1943; used DU ordnance by way of attack aircraft, AH-64 helicopter gun ships, advanced cruise missiles, CALCM among others. PGU-14 API uranium piercing munitions fired by Vulcan Canon installed on A10 Gun ships, and AH-64 Apache gun ships apart from the Bunker buster bombs (DU weapons) which were dropped from F-16 attack planes.

It is authoritatively estimated by independent scientific investigations and reports on record before this Tribunal, and the prosecution conservatively estimates, that at the very minimum 500-600 tonnes of DU ordnance were used throughout Afghanistan including at Tora Bora, Shaikoot, Paktia, Mazare-e- Sharif, Jalalabad, Nangarhar, Khost, Kundoz and Kabul around Bagram from October 2001 after the bombings commenced on 7th October 2001, whereas Dr Mohammed Daud Miraki of the Afghanistan Recovery Fund refers to not less than 1000 tonnes of Depleted and undepleted Uranium being used.

On 16th January 2002, the Secretary for Defense, Mr.Rumsfield in a briefing confirmed that "high levels of radioactive count" had been confirmed due to the result of "Depleted Uranium shells on some warheads" -- Prosecution Document Ex. E-122. Mr Philip Coyle Senior Adviser of the Centre for Defense Information in Washington DC, admitted that DU weapons had been used in Afghanistan.

The documented reports of Marc Herold and Dai Williams, Prosecution documents at Ex. E-118 and E-119; the Survey of the Uranium Medical Research Centre, Washington DC; Prosecution Document E-120; the reports of Dr Mohammed Daud Miraki, Afghan Recovery Fund, referred to above, Prosecution Documents Ex. E- 137 and E-138, among other documents refer in detail to the widespread use and effects of DU weapons on the people in Afghanistan inflicting slow and painful death, termed the "silent genocide" affecting the unborn, altering irreversibly the genetic code of all those exposed.

Testimonies of fathers and mother, made to the field teams of the Uranium Medical Research Centre (UMRC) are horrifying: "What else do the Americans want? They killed us, they turned our new borns into horrific deformations, and they turned our farm lands into grave yards and destroyed our homes. On top of all this their planes fly over and spray us with bullets . . . we have nothing to lose . . . we will fight them the same way we fought the previous invaders . . . (Sayed Gharib at Tora Bora).

Ms Leuren Moret gave vital evidence of United States military policy, on the use of DU weapons, tracing the history of its creation and the politics of its use -- Prosecution document Ex. E 156. Ms Leuren Moret deposed that after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an international outcry and taboo against nuclear weapons, prevented the further use of nuclear and radioactive weapons; this policy was abandoned in 1991; a decision was made by the Strategic Command in the USA to blur the distinction between conventional and nuclear weapons by introducing DU into the battlefield; this witness has aptly described DU as the "trojan horse" of nuclear weapons with similar effects.

The witness maintained that it was the cost factor which made DU weaponry an attractive weapon for the arms industry though on the other hand the cost to humanity was an unacceptable cost; deposing further, that DU being a by-product from nuclear weapons and nuclear power industries, a "radioactive" hazard, a liability to the Department of Energy, millions of tons were passed on to the "military-industrial" complex for the manufacture of weapons. By selling depleted uranium weapons to more than 20 countries, the DOE has made a profitable business for the arms industry.

The documents produced by this witness, handed over to her by Major Doug Rokke prove conclusively that the United States government and military were aware from 1943, of the genocidal and omnicidal nature of DU weapons. A memorandum dated 30th October 1943, received by General Groves in charge of the Manhattan Project (nuclear weapons project) from three physicians working under him, Prosecution document Ex. E 126, recommends that radiological materials be developed for use as a military weapon on the battlefield. It was a blueprint for depleted uranium weaponry. The aforesaid memorandum describing the property of DU weapons describes that

"the material would be ground into particles of microscopic size and would be distributed, in the form of dust or smoke . . . by ground-fired projectiles, land vehicles, airplanes, or aerial bombs . . . inhaled by personnel. . . . It has been estimated that one millionth of a gram accumulating in a person's body would be fatal. There are no known methods of treatment for such casualty . . .

Areas so contaminated by radioactive dust and smokes, would be dangerous as long as a high enough concentration of material could be maintained. . . . Reservoirs or wells would be contaminated or food poisoned . . .

Particles larger than 1 µ [micron] in size are likely to be deposited in nose, trachea or bronchi . . . Particles smaller than 1 µ [micron] are more likely to be deposited in alveoli where they will either remain indefinitely or be absorbed into the lymphatics or blood. . . .

Beta and gamma emitting fission products may be absorbed from the lungs or G-I tract into the blood and so distributed throughout the body."

In the second document produced, memorandum dated 1st March 1991 addressed by Lt.Col. M.V. Zeiman (after the first Gulf War of 1991) to Major Larsson of the Studies and Analysis Branch on the subject of "The Effectiveness of Depleted Uranium Penetrators," Prosecution Document Ex. E-127, emphasizes that "the impact of DU penetrators were very effective against Iraqi armour . . . there has been and continues to be concern regarding the impact of DU on the environment . . . DU rounds may become politically unacceptable . . . and thus be deleted from the arsenal . . . we should ensure their future existence . . . I believe we should keep this in mind when after action reports are written".

The interpretation of this memorandum, by the witness Leuren Moret, that this memorandum in fact directed, that after action reports should be falsified, to conceal the real effects of DU weaponry, is correct.

The third significant document produced by this witness, is the communication dated 19th August 1993, Prosecution Document Ex. E-128, by Brigadier Eric K. Shinskei, at the relevant time Brigadier General, GS, Director of Training forwarded to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installation, logistics and Environment) on the subject, Review of Draft Report to Congress -- Health and Environmental Consequences of Depleted Uranium in the US Army. This communication states that after Operation Desert Storm (the first Gulf War) the GAO examined the Army's ability to contend with Depleted Uranium contamination. The GAO published a draft memorandum which was accepted by the Department of Defence on 15th January 1993 which was a tasking memorandum directing the Secretary of Army to -

Provide adequate training for personnel who may come in contact with DU contaminated equipment; Complete medical testing of all personnel exposed to DU contamination. Develop a plan for DU contaminated equipment recovery during future operation. Leuren Moret, concluding her testimony deposed, that from the properties of DU weapons its radioactive particles travelling through air, water and food sources it is not only countries where these weapons are used which are in the affected zone, but all countries within a radius of approximately 1000 miles of the use of DU weapons due to the wind factor and atmospheric dusts; a map was displayed indicating the countries in the DU affected zone from the use of the weaponry in Afghanistan and Iraq, placed on record of this Tribunal which indicates that Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China and India are among the countries affected by the use of DU weaponry in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Turkey, Iran are among the countries affected by the use DU weapons in Iraq during both the military attacks against Iraq.

Major Doug Rokke Director of the DU project from 1994 to 1995, himself a victim of the DU weapons, clean up operations after the first Gulf War was interviewed at the Hamburg Conference on DU in October 2003, by Prosecutor Kazuko Ito; the video of interview is Prosecution document Ex. E 124; amicus curiae who has seen the interview has raised no objections to its production. Major Doug Rokke commenting on his attempts to focus on the risks of DU weapons while in charge of the DU program of the US army stated:

"military officers from the UK, Australia, Canada and Germany participated in the project to study the risk of DU weapons and I was directed by the Army to direct the team . . . we submitted recommendations which were completely ignored . . . the US army has not taken any measures to protect soldiers. Although we made a proposal that clean-up is essential, complete clean up is impossible. Therefore we proposed not to use DU weapons any longer. However our proposal was ignored by the upper level of the government and completely ignored by NATO, UK, Australia and others."

Referring to the videos which had been made for the Pentagon about DU weapons on risks, clean up measures, method of measuring radioactivity etc. for the US army, the witness emphasized that these videos were never used and the U.S. decided to seal this DU project because the results revealed that DU weapons were extremely risky and its use would be prohibited by international pressure. The United States government the witness stated, continues to use these weapons because they are inexpensive and effective, and also because it is a milestone to make fourth generation nuclear ordnance acceptable by advancing the proposition that contamination of fourth generation nuclear weapons would not exceed the levels of radioactive contamination of DU.

The evidence of Major Doug Rokke, has to be assessed in the light of the report on Gulf War Veterans. By now half of all the 697,000 soldiers involved in the 1991 Gulf War have reported serious illnesses. According to the Gulf War Veterans Association, more than 30% are chronically ill. Children born to soldiers of coalition personnel after the Gulf War were born deformed or with serious birth defects; including those who had healthy babies earlier. Recently a soldier in the UK has succeeded after several years of struggle, in obtaining a judgement which recognizes the DU weapons had caused serious physiological effects.

The third witness before the Tribunal on the issue of the use of DU weapons as a War Crime, Professor Katsuma Yagasaki, Prosecution documents Ex. E 158 and 159 presented oral and documentary evidence clarifying that the term "depleted" seems to convey the incorrect impression that DU is uranium that does not contain radioactivity any more, which is not the case as DU ammunition causes radioactive contamination and is no less serious than nuclear weapons. Even one DU particle has adequate capacity to cause cancer and once absorbed into the body can transform genes, cells and affect all the organs and lymph nodes. Professor Yagasaki deposed that the total amount of 235U dispersed in Hiroshima was 61.2 kilograms; since it was estimated that about 500-600 tons of DU weapons were used in Afghanistan, DU pollution in Afghanistan is 8,170 tons more than in Hiroshima; that the adverse effects of radioactive contamination in Afghanistan and the internal radiation risk is beyond our imagination, as the alpha ray from the DU damages the DNA irreversibly and that the entire concept of low radiation risk was misleading with respect to internal exposure, as DU is absorbed by inhalation and internal contamination.

Professor Yagasaki in the paper on record before this Tribunal presented at the `World Uranium Conference Weapons Conference' in October 2003 calculated that 800 tons of DU is the atomicity equivalent to 83,000 Nagasaki bombs. The amount of DU used in Iraq is equivalent to 250,000 Nagasaki bombs. Professor Yagasaki affirmed that DU shells are atrocious radioactive weapons which should not be used and that DU has a long life of 4.5 billion years remaining in the soil, air, water in all affected zones.

The Tribunal on an issue vital for this trial had to deal with the ambiguity of the WHO report; this report Prosecution document Ex. E-123 was placed before Professor Yagasaki by the Tribunal, to elicit his scientific response to the document, since it was relied on by amicus curiae to defend the use of this weapons system by the Defendant stating that the WHO report did not refer to such horrific consequences; the WHO report was found to be vague and evasive, partly admitting, partly in denial, not in conformity with the overwhelming and authoritative evidence from 1943, deposed to by the witnesses; moreover the WHO report was not signed; no scientist or panel of scientists had authenticated this report.

In his paper on `Undiagnosed Illnesses and Radioactive Warfare' Dr.Asaf Durakovik who first identified the "Gulf War Syndrome" caused by exposure to DU ordnance, Prosecution document Ex. E-120; has on the basis of investigations carried out on Gulf War Veterans in Canada and elsewhere reported that DU accumulates in the bone, kidney, reproductive systems, brain and lung, with verified genotoxic, mutagenic and carcinogenic properties, as well as reproductive and teratogenic alterations even 10 years after inhalation exposure or receiving of shrapnel wounds; this contradicts the WHO report.

Professor Yagasaki gave details to the Tribunal on the unscientific nature of the WHO report on material particulars, in particular on the inability of the report to analyze the properties of DU. "On reading the unsigned report of the WHO report on DU munitions, I find that while concealing the serious effects of the weapons system it attempts to take a safe and evasive position, in the eventuality of the report being faulted by the on the ground situation, by mentioning that":

". . . following conflict, levels of DU contamination in food and water may be detected in affected areas after a few years. This should be monitored . . . "

". . . where possible, clean up operations in impact zones should be undertaken, if there are substantial number of radioactive projectiles remaining and where qualified experts deem contaminated levels to be unacceptable . . ."

The WHO is contradicted by its own scientist, Dr.Michael H. Repacholi of the WHO who is quoted by Dr. Mohammed Daud Miraki in his report "Silent Genocide from America" Prosecution document Ex. E-137, as having reported that:

"DU is released from fired weapons in the form of small particles which may be inhaled, ingested or remain in the environment. . . . Children . . . may be considered to be more at risk of DU exposure . . . within a war zone through contaminated food and water . . ."

A recent BBC Television report of February 2004 quoted Dr. Keith Baverstock, Senior Radiation Specialist to the WHO, who stated that he was the co-author of a WHO Report 2001, on the affects of DU on health which was classified as "Secret" by WHO to prevent its release to the public.

On October 20, 2002 Dr Asaf Durakovik, Professor of nuclear medicine at George Town University whose report has been submitted to the Tribunal reported preliminary test results on sick civilians from Southern Afghanistan at Qatar. "Specimens contained 100 times the normal level of uranium concentration. Curiously this was undepleted and not depleted uranium . . . Dr Asaf said in an interview to Al-Jazeera television in November 2002, that the US forces had used more DU in Afghanistan than they had in the first Gulf War and the Balkans."

"A large number of health specialists in Afghanistan . . . regard the increasing birth defects to be the result of the dropping DU munitions on Afghanistan . . . children were born with no eyes, no limbs, tumours protruding from their mouth . . . with deformed genitalia"

It was noticed that soldiers, birds in large numbers died after bleeding from their mouths, noses and ears; many people died without any physical injuries after having developed unusual symptoms.

Marc. W Herold of the University of New Hampshire in the detailed study titled "Uranium Wars: The Pentagon Steps Up Its Use of Radioactive Munitions" has reported that -

"in the Afghan campaign, a new generation of uranium weapons is suspected to have been used extensively for targeting underground facilities and caves . . . Intensely bombed hard target zones . . . may now be heavily contaminated with DU oxide . . . During the course of the operation, US planes conducted 950 sorties and dropped more than 3,450 bombs."

"risks to US and Afghan troops being sent out to check out bombed cave systems are horrendous . . . even more serious are . . . in densely populated target zones like Kabul"

"Given the heavy US bombing of the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, it seems probable that large amounts of DU have found their way into the rivers of the Hindu basin whose source is precisely in the mountains of the Hindu Kush. After heading east from Kabul . . . the Kabul river crosses into Pakistan and feeds the Indus river. In arid areas like Southern Afghanistan, most of the uranium oxide would remain as surface dust where it is easily dispersed by wind."

"In mid-December, the Pentagon announced the development of another new, high- tech bunker busting bomb in Afghanistan. The laser-guided bomb is called a `thermobaric' weapon, and uses a high temperature, high pressure explosive that destroys underground caves and tunnels."

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17. Verdict

I find the Defendant, George Walker Bush, President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of United States Armed Forces guilty -

Under Article 2 of the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan and under International Criminal Law, for waging a war of aggression against Afghanistan and the Afghan people;

Under Article 3, Part I, clause (a), (b), (c), (d), (f), (g) and Article 3, Part II, clause (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (h), (i), (k), (l), (n), (o), (p), (q) of the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan, under International Criminal Law and International Humanitarian Law, in respect of War Crimes committed against the people of Afghanistan by the use of weapons prohibited by the laws of warfare causing death and destruction to the Afghan people, maiming men, women and children;

Under Article 4, clause (a), (b), (d), (e), (f), (h) and (i) of the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal and International Humanitarian Law, for Crimes Against Humanity committed against the people of Afghanistan, resulting in inhumane acts affecting large sections of the population cause by the military invasion, bombing, and lack of humanitarian relief;

Under Article 3, Part I, clause (a), (b), (c), (f), (g) and Article 3, Part II clause (f), (k), (p), and (q) of the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan, under International Criminal Law and the Hague Convention and Geneva Convention (III) of 1949 in respect of the torture and killings of Talban and other prisoners of war who had surrendered and their torture and inhumane conditions of detention and deportation of innocent civilians;

In respect of the transport of prisoners in sealed Containers and their death due to suffocation and filing of rifle shots at the Container for creating holes for ventilation with the prisoners inside and for conditions at Sheberghan prison; the Defendant is entitled to benefit of doubt at this trial however the issues are left open for trial, before any other court/Tribunal as the evidence before the Tribunal is not conclusive on the involvement of United States forces;

Under Article 3, Part I (c) and (g); Article 3 Part 2 (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (h), (i), (l) and Article 4 (b), (l) of (n), (p), (q) of the ICTA in respect of the serious humanitarian situation resulting from the refugee exodus in Afghanistan due to the bombing of civilian population and civilian infrastructure in a country already affected by serious famine resulting in mass exodus of people and death from bombing, hunger, displacement, disease and absence of humanitarian relief;

Under Article 3, Part II, clause (o), (p) and under Article 4 clause (a), (b) and (l) of the statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan, and under International Criminal Law and International Humanitarian Law; in respect of the DU weapons used on the people of Afghanistan to exterminate the population and for the crime of "Omnicide" the extermination of life, contamination of air, water and food resources and the irreversible alteration of the genetic code of all living organisms including plant life as a direct consequence of the use of radioactive munitions in Afghanistan affecting countries in the entire region;

Under Article 3, Part II, clause (o), (p) and under Article 4 (a) and (i) of the Statute of the International Tribunal for Afghanistan, under International Criminal Law, for exposing soldiers and other personnel of the United States, UK and other soldiers of coalition forces to radioactive contamination by the use of DU weapons, hazarding their lives, their physiology, and that of their future progeny by irreversible alteration of the genetic code.

18. Direction

The Defendant is a convicted war criminal consequently unfit to hold public office; citizens, soldiers and all civil personnel of the United States would be constitutionally and otherwise justified in withdrawing all co-operation from the Defendant and his government and in declining to obey illegal orders of the Defendant and his administration including military orders threatening other nations or the people of the United States on the basis of the Nuremberg Principle, that illegal orders of Superior must not be obeyed.

19. Recommendations

Immediate cessation of the use of Depleted Uranium Munitions -- Moratorium on production, stockpiling and manufacture.

It has been conclusively proved that DU Weapons are Radioactive, Omnicidal nuclear weapons (the by product of the uranium enrichment process of manufacture of nuclear weapons and nuclear fuel) used as weapons of "silent genocide" in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Balkans and destructive of all life on earth irreversibly altering the genetic code of all exposed. The manufacture, stockpiling and use of such weapons is strictly prohibited by existing Conventions of International Humanitarian Law and must cease immediately. Corporations producing these weapons, heads of State, heads and personnel of Defense departments, military officers and others involved in decisions for its use, are liable to be criminally prosecuted before the International Criminal Court, or within national legal systems, and/or face suits for compensation.

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