Silent death from America

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Begins... (includes disturbing images of deformed babies and a child)

The Silent Genocide from America

Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, MA, PhD

Director Afghan DU & Recovery Fund

Mdmiraki [at] ameritech.net

When Bush jr. said, "we will smoke them out." he lived up to his promise,
making life an unattainable reality for the unborn and unsustainable reality
for the living sentencing the Afghan people and their future generations to
a predetermined death sentence.

"After the Americans destroyed our village and killed many of us, we also
lost our houses and have nothing to eat. However, we would have endured
these miseries and even accepted them, if the Americans had not sentenced us
all to death. When I saw my deformed grandson, I realized that my hopes of
the future have vanished for good, different from the hopelessness of the
Russian barbarism, even though at that time I lost my older son Shafiqullah.
This time, however, I know we are part of the invisible genocide brought on
us by America, a silence death from which I know we will not escape." (Jooma
Khan of Laghman province, March 2003)

These words were uttered by an aggrieved Afghan grandfather, who saw his own
and that of others' familial extinction at the hands of the United States of
America and her allies. Another Afghan, who also saw his demise, said:

"I realized this slow, yet certain death, when I saw blood in my urine and
developed severe pain in my kidneys along with breathing problems I never
had before. Many of my family members started to complain from confusion and
the pregnant women miscarried their babies while others gave birth to
disabled infants" (Akbar Khan from Paktika province, February 2003)

The perpetuation of the perpetual death in Afghanistan continues with the
passage of each day. Every day, people see the silent death striking their
families and friends, hopeless and terrified at the sight of the next
funeral in their minds' eyes. This indiscriminate murder of the Afghan
people continues while those, whose tax money paid for the monstrous weapons
and brought about this genocide pretend as though all is well. The horrific
pictures of those dying--whose bodies do not correlate to their age since
they have internalized so much uranium dust that it impacted the morphology
of their bodies--remain in the memories of those still living who are
fearfully waiting for their turn of disaster. The pregnant women are afraid
from giving birth to babies--horrified to see a deformity instead of a
healthy child. This is the legacy of the US "liberation", an indiscriminate
murder of the weak and the unarmed that do not have any means of
self-defense. In fact, there is no defensive measure against such Weapons of
Mass Destruction because these deadly particles of uranium oxide--the dust
formed after uranium pulverizes upon impacting a target--remain in soil,
water and cover the surface of vegetation for generations to come.

When a US bomb or that of her allies landed on an Afghan village or town,
the land and its people have become part of the deadly legacy of silent
death. This death sentence is different from any other type because in this
type death sentence all the people, their land and future generations are
condemned to an inescapable genocide. The tragedy that makes this state of
affairs so dreadful is the unavoidably invisible threat that targets
everyone indiscriminately. Moreover, the threat has become endemic to the
fiber of existence, contaminated the land, water and its inhabitants. In
fact, when Bush jr. said, "we will smoke them out." he lived up to his
promise, making life an unattainable reality for the unborn and
unsustainable reality for the living, hence, sentencing Afghan people and
their future generations to a predetermined death sentence.

The true extent of this disaster is unfolding as time goes by. In light of
the continuous revelations about the quantity and types of weapons used in
Afghanistan, the worse has not fully materialized. Everyday, US AC 130
gunships, A-10s and B 52s bomb Afghan villages and towns at each turn when a
unit of US troops encounter resistance. Consequently, not only, the
perpetual death continues but rather, every round of depleted uranium is one
additional nail in the collective coffin of the Afghan people.

The usage of great number of munitions and armaments dropped by US jets
resulted in upsurge of various health problems weeks into 2002. This pattern
is different from that experienced by the Iraqi after the first Gulf War
where it took years for many of the birth defects, deformities and other
health conditions to surface. This points to the enormity of uranium weapons
used in Afghanistan, a fact, illustrated by many investigators world wide,
notably Dai Williams in England, and Dr. Durakovic from the Uranium Medical
Research Center in Canada, and Dr. Marc Herald in the United States among
others. Furthermore, various international newspapers and media outlets
notably Le Monde Diplomatique, Guardian, Frontier Post, BBC, CBC, Al Jazeera
among others have reported the types of weapon systems used against Afghan
targets--villages, towns--and mountain cave complexes. According to the BBC
(April 10, 2002), more than 6600 J-dam bombs were dropped on Afghanistan. On
October 2002, Boston Globe also reported:

"In contrast with older weapons, the new generation finds its way with
advances such as target-elevation data and satellite signals. The JDAM
already has proven itself in Afghanistan. By February [2002], commanders had
dropped 6,600 JDAMs, consultants estimate - so many that stockpiles ran low
and officials had to scramble up more production from a Missouri factory."
.................

Ends....


"..............This disaster will haunt Afghan children, women and men for
generations to come. Dr. Michael H. Repacholi of the World Health
Organization reported:

"DU [deleted uranium] is released from fired weapons in the form of small
particles that may be inhaled, ingested or remain in the environment."

He added further:

"Children rather than adults may be considered to be more at risk of DU
exposure when returning to normal activities within a war zone through
contaminated food and water, since typical hand-to-mouth activity of
inquisitive play could lead to high DU ingestion from contaminated soil."
(The Laissez Faire City Times, Vol 5, No 44, October 29, 2001}

At the defense department briefing, Dr. Ross Anthony, from the Rand
Corporation had said the following about depleted uranium:

"The kidney is the part that is the most susceptible." (The Laissez Faire
City Times, Vol 5, No 44, October 29, 2001}

Steve Fetter and Frank von Hippel wrote in the Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists (1999)

"Radiation doses for soldiers with embedded fragments of depleted uranium
may be troublesome.The ground the DU-contaminated plumes passed over would
be coated with a thin layer of DU dust, some of which would be later kicked
up by wind and human activity. ...The munitions could deposit a layer of
[depleted uranium] dust on crops that could be eaten directly by humans or
by animals later consumed by humans. .However, rough estimates suggest that
the cancer risk from consumption of contaminated produce would be less than
from inhalation"

What this translates into is more deformities, diseases and deaths for the
poor Afghans. As I also stated in my previous report
http://www.rense.com/general35/perp.htm, it took on average 5 years for
various deformities to emerge in Iraq after the first Gulf War, however, in
Afghanistan, people started to complain from various health problems within
weeks of the initial bombing. This means only one thing, the magnitude of
uranium based weapons used in Afghanistan is much higher than that in Iraq
during the first Gulf War. This fact is reinforced by the news that in the
first few months of the bombing more 6,600 J-dams/smart bombs have been
dropped on Afghanistan, making the size of the uranium contamination much
higher than in Iraq during the first Gulf War.

The emergence of excessive health problems increased curiosity and concerns
among scientists worldwide of the usage of depleted uranium. The first
scientific undertaking was led by the Uranium Medical Research Center (UMRC)
which consisted of two consecutive trips to JalalAbad and Kabul. The
preliminary findings by the UMRC research teams concluded:

"Radiological measurements of the uranium concentrations in Afghan civilians
' urine samples indicate abnormally high levels of non-depleted uranium.
Radiological measurements of Afghan civilians' have high concentrations of
uranium in a range beginning at 4 X's and reaching to over 20 X's normal
populations. This is 400% to 2000% higher than the study controls and normal
population baselines of the concentrations of nanograms of uranium per liter
of urine in a 24-hour sample."
"The isotopic ratios of the uranium contaminant measured in Afghan civilians
show that it is not Depleted Uranium (DU). The isotopes of uranium found in
the Afghan civilians' urine is Non-Depleted Uranium."
"UMRC investigated the possible origins of this contamination. The
preliminary results of the radiological urine analysis are corroborated by
radiological measurements of debris and weapons' fragment samples at OEF
(Operation Enduring Freedom) target sites and bomb-craters."
"UMRC's Field Team found several hundred civilians with acute symptoms and
reportedly developing, chronic symptoms of uranium internal contamination
(including congenital problems in newborns). All subjects' on-set of
symptoms are reported to coincide with the calendar dates of the bombing and
were not present prior to the bombing."
"Radiological measurements of any populations' urine specimens identify, as
a standard practice, the abundance of each of the 3 naturally occurring
isotopes of uranium (U234, 235, 238). These isotopes' abundances
(quantities) are measured as a fraction of the uranium released in a 24-hour
sample of urine. The isotopic ratios (proportions) of the uranium in the
urine collected in Afghanistan has the unmistakable signature of
Non-Depleted Uranium. It does not express the isotopic ratio of DU. Depleted
Uranium and Non-depleted Uranium are both species of uranium. UMRC is
reporting the isotopic signatures of the uranium found in the Afghan
civilians' urine." (UMRC Preliminary Findings from Afghanistan & Operation
Enduring Freedom, http://www.umrc.net/AfghanistanOEF.asp)
The staff of UMRC communicated the following about Non-Depleted Uranium:

"Actually, NDU, if it is "virgin uranium", is pure uranium extracted from
the feed stock at the pre-enrichment phase of either the fuel or weapons
development cycles and is significantly less expensive per ton than DU. The
gaseous diffusion and centrifuge processes of enriching uranium require so
much electrical power, they need dedicated power production sources - some
powered reactors have been constructed simply to power up the enrichment
process. They also are expensive technologies to operate and capitalize. DU,
being the by-product of enrichment is by definition, much more expensive per
ton since it had to be processed through the enrichment phase."


After collecting samples of urine, soil from blast sites and surrounding
areas in Kabul and JalaAbad and other areas, UMRC carrying out detailed
scientific analysis of these samples and released their findings on
21.05.2003, http://www.umrc.net/AfghanistanOEF.asp:



UMRC's recent findings, May 2003, reveal a wider scope of human and
environmental contamination in Afghan civilians, corroborating the November
2002 Jalalabad findings.
Jalalabad area: New reference levels based on recent collections of samples
and controls have revised the Jalalabad results upward to uranium values 45
X's normal.
New bioassay studies identify uranium internal contamination in Spin Gar
(Tora Bora) area and the City of Kabul are up to 200 X's the Reference Level
of the unexposed population.
Surface water, rice fields and catch-basins adjacent to and surrounding the
bombsites have high values of uranium, up to 27 X's normal.
Low but as yet inconclusive readings of U236 have been identified by the
laboratory in some urine samples; further analysis is underway to determine
the metallurgical origins of the uranium with a consideration of "commercial
natural uranium" containing recycled reactor spent fuel products.
Analyses of soils and debris collected inside OEF bomb craters and target
sites have uranium values 3 X's to 6 X's normal.
Surface soils surrounding the bombsites and downwind from ground-zero are
elevated close to 3 X's reference levels.
Field and laboratory data show that samples with elevated uranium levels,
civilian health problems, and weapons exposure histories correspond
spatially and chronologically to ordnance deployed by Operation Enduring
Freedom.
Along the lines of the UMRC findings, I instructed two groups of field
surveyors to comb eastern and southeastern Afghanistan as well as Kabul for
effects on uranium on local populations, they have found many dreadful
conditions.

They targeted wide areas all over Afghanistan, however, the depth of the
contamination is situated in the Pashtun dominated areas, east, southeast,
south and southwestern Afghanistan. More then thousands tons of non-depleted
uranium along with depleted uranium (mostly from A-10 and AC-130 Gatling
guns) has been used by the US and her allies against the defenseless people
of Afghanistan.

The bulk of the contamination is in ToraBora, Bagram frontline--north of
Kabul, Shaikoot, Paktia, Paktika, Mazar-i-sharif, and Kundoz frontline.
(Field surveyors)

Data Collected by field surveyors:

Subsequent to the contamination, newborn children have physical deformities
and those that do not have physical deformity are suffering from Mental
Retardation. These cases are reported from Paktia, Nanagrhar, Bagram,
Mazar-e-Sharif and Kundoz.

As in my previous report, the survey team reported again that in
bombardments of ToraBora, Shaikoot and Bagram frontline large number of
antiaircraft weapons and rifles had melted.

During the bombardments of ToraBora, Bagram front lines, Kundoz and
Mazar-e-Sharif, many Taliban soldiers were seen with blood coming out from
their mouths, noses and ears. Meanwhile, those Taliban soldiers who returned
to their respective villages started to vomit blood and had bloody stools.
Subsequently, many have died from their conditions.

During bombardment of Kuram village, Surkhrod district of Nangarhar, the
village was completely destroyed and many peoples were killed without any
physical injuries.

After bombardment in Khost public health workers have reported some skin
lesions. Those that developed the skin lesions died after their conditions
were deteriorated.

In Pachir Wa Agam district near to ToraBora targeted area, women started to
suffer from a deadly condition. Several months after the bombing, women of
the area would become angry by petty things and that anger turns into rage,
which subsequently causes the women to collapse and die. (Field Surveyors of
the Afghan DU & Recovery Fund)

My team also reported that many children are born with no limbs, no eyes, or
tumors protruding out from their mouths and their eyes. The following
testimonies and photos--filmed in Iraq are used here to exhibit the
identical conditions of Afghan victims-- exhibit the horrific conditions
from which children in Afghanistan, similar to those in Iraq, suffer from.

The father one of the children in Paktia said this about his child:

"When I saw my little boy with those monstrous red tumors, I thought to
myself, why is it difficult for Americans to understand that they are hated
in our country. If I do this to the child of an American family, that family
has the right to pull my eyes out of my eye sockets. I like to tell the
Americans that they love to live their lives of luxury at the expense of our
extermination" (Assadullah, February 2003).....
.....A man from ToraBora lost controlled of his emotions while chatting with
one of the field volunteers, screamed and posed a question and continued:

"What else do the Americans want? They killed us, they turned our newborns
into horrific deformations, and they turned our farmlands into graveyards
and destroyed our homes. On top of all that their planes fly over and spray
us with bullets. We have nothing to lose; we will fight against them the
same way we fought the previous monster [the former Soviet Union]" (Sa'yed
Gharib, April 2003)

Most of the people that developed various health problems have died; others
suffer from conditions such as kidney disease/failure, confusion, and loss
of immunity and painful joints.

I wish to conclude this paper with the following quote from one of the
victims of the US bombing:

"Tell America, we are not fools. Your words and actions are those of evil.
We do not have airplanes like you do, however, we have one thing that you do
not have principles and morals. We will never do anything remotely similar
to American children what Americans have done to our children and families.
They might win some fights, but we have already won the big fight, the moral
ground." (Nurullah Omar-Khail, March, 2003)



Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, MA, PhD

Director Afghan DU & Recovery Fund



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