(Jonesborough, Tennessee) Friday, November 25, 2006 - The well known and widely respected Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) announced Wednesday in a press release the start of a 10 day prayer vigil at the Aerojet Ordnance plant in Jonesborough, Tennessee. Aerojet produces weaponized uranium gas penetrators for use by the US Military Expeditionary and Occupation forces worldwide.

The Christian Peacemaker Teams announced they will intersperse the prayer vigil with meetings with local townspeople and weapons makers to provide them with various perspectives on this deadly radioactive weaponry drama.

Team members also announced a second prayer vigil at the notorious Alliant Tech plant in Rocket Center, West Virginia. CPT members will also intersperse the prayer vigil with meetings to provide various perspectives on the production and use of genocidal radioactive weapons.

A Christian Peacemaker Team spokesman stated "The Alliant Tech annual corporate statement on expenses and profits proclaimed proudly the weapons factory had manufactured 18 Million uranium tank penetrator rods for the US Military. At slightly more than ten pounds of radioactive uranium apiece that is more than 190 Million pounds of weaponized uranium gas, a genocidal weapon."

The spokesman concluded "Using the same calculation method that the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority employed in their 1990 projection of potential DU consequences in Iraq, the estimated 95,400 tons of DU from the Alliant plant could result in as many as 954 Million cancers within the next ten years. That is unacceptable."

Christian Peacemaker Team members announced that their many Christian and other supporters, throughout America and the world, can see and read about what is happening on the scene in their Blog report at http://www.stop-du.org

Therefore, Christian Peacemaker Teams calls on:
1. Alliant Tech/ABL, Rocket Center, WV, to stop all DU manufacture as well as the shipping of all DU products;
2. all world militaries to stop using DU weapons;
3. all military personnel to refuse to load DU ammunition or use it in any of its forms;
4. the US. Defense Department and all manufacturers of DU products, to join with BAE Systems of Great Britain and the British Defense Ministry as they have stopped DU weapons production and stopped its use in war theaters and practice ranges;
5. the U.S. Army and Air Force to follow the lead of the U.S. Navy as it has stopped its use of DU weapons. If the Navy has recognized the dangers of DU's use, it follows that the other military services should also end their use of DU weapons.