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Bristol-Stop-The-War-Coalition | 13.11.2002 04:05

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BRISTOL-STOP-THE-WAR-COALITION : 13th November 2002

PRESS RELEASE: Uranium Weapons Used On Iraq

CONTENTS:
1) Stop The City Campaign
2) Uranium Weapons Have Been Used On Iraq


1) STOP THE CITY ON THE OUTBREAK OF WAR
We call upon everyone to converge at the Bristol Peace Vigil on the evening following the outbreak of war with Iraq. Preparations for war against Iraq intensify with each day that passes. Our response is to build our movement day by day, and to shut down our city on the outbreak of war. (Vigil times will be open ended in event of war)
PEACE VIGIL TIMES: Mon-Fri 5:30-6:30pm & Sat 3:00-4:00pm
(Bristol City Centre. Opposite the Hippodrome. St. Augustines Parade)
DIRECTIONS : CLICK BELOW
 http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgigride=358590&gridn=172858&title

2) URANIUM WEAPONS HAVE BEEN USED ON IRAQ
"During the Gulf War of 1991 allied forces used around 350 tons of depleted uranium weapons. More recently, a highly secret and classified 'dense metal' has been used in hard target guided weapons. It is pyrophoric and twice the density of steel. The only metal to fulfill these requirements is uranium. If uranium is used in large explosive hard target warheads (up to 1500 kg) it will create levels of radioactive contamination 100 times higher than the depleted uranium weapons used in the Gulf War.
The use of uranium weapons will permanently contaminate the land with alpha, beta & gamma radiation. The half life of U-238 is 4.5 billion years. In Iraq it has already entered the water, soil and food chain. In some areas targeted in 1991 childhood malignancies have increased by 384% and leukaemia by 300%. When tiny particles are inhaled or ingested they can lodge in the body causing cancers, birth malformations, kidney damage, immune breakdown and neurological problems.
The US attack planned for Iraq would release about another 1000 tons of uranium into the environment. This is tantamount to genocide and will affect allied ground troops and neighbouring countries as well as the Iraqi population. The hazard of using thousands of radiological weapons could be as high as that caused by several tactical nuclear weapons. We should be calling for UN inspections of all hard target weapons systems and manufacturing facilities in the US, UK, France and Israel."

For additional info on uranium and depleted uranium weapons:
Pandora DU Research Project
 http://www.brischange.org/pandoraproject email:  pduproject@yahoo.co.uk
Campaign Against Depleted Uranium
 http://cadu.members.gn.apc.org// email:  info@cadu.org.uk

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War Starters

13.11.2002 08:21

eeek


The time to stop the war is now!

13.11.2002 08:25

It will be too late to stop the war by the time war breaks out! When war with Iraq has broken out then it will become unstoppable! What is needed is mass direct action now to stop this war ever happening! This could be occupations of army recruiting offices and mass blockades of city centres to force the government to back down from any attack on Iraq

Harlequin


go on then

13.11.2002 12:13

Don't see you organising anything, Harlequin.... talk is cheap.

johnny_boy


Here is a link to a new anti-war group

13.11.2002 21:01

Here is a link a new anti-war groups website who are planning to take massive direct action before the war starts:

Harlequin
- Homepage: http://www.disobience.org.uk