U.S. Army troops found radioactive
WASHINGTON, April 19 (UPI) -- As many as 800 U.S. army soldiers are awaiting
results to determine if they were exposed to radiation in Iraq, the New York
Daily News said Monday.
The demand for tests was sparked by the newspaper's report that four
soldiers from the 442nd Military Police Company are contaminated with
radiation, likely caused by dust from depleted uranium shells fired by U.S.
troops both in the Gulf war and in the Iraq invasion. The munitions are
tipped with depleted uranium that is dense enough to penerate armor plate,
but they also tend to pulverize on impact, spreading radioactive dust.
However, several independent uranium experts who reviewed early lab results
from Washington's Walter Reed medical facility's doctors are questioning
whether the Army's testing methods are adequate.
"They are using an instrument that apparently isn't very accurate," said
Glen Lawrence, a professor of biochemistry at Long Island University.
Leonard Dietz, a retired scientist from the Knolls Atomic Laboratories who
invented one of the instruments for measuring uranium isotopes, agreed.
"The instruments they used are just not sophisticated enough to give
accurate readings," Dietz said.
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"That they deceived us about the weapons of mass destruction, that's true.
We were taken for a ride," Kwasniewski said Thursday (March 18, 2004).
Aleksander Kwasniewski, Poland's President
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