Subject: [du-list]
Journalist's Query
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:25:08
From:"robert james parsons" <rjparsons@hotmail.com>
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I am trying to track the question of
the use of cruise missiles
with DU in the Afghan war.
Martin Meissonnier, in his ninety-minute
documentary, Uranium apparuvri,
la Guerre invisible (Depleted Uranium,
the Invisible War, shown on prime-
time French television in February
2000 on the Canal Plus channel) showed
DU-equipped cruise missiles on display
at an international weapons fair in
the Middle East not long after the
Gulf War, with the salesman
boasting, "This baby's been battle
tested."
By my reckoning, the targets on the
first map that NATO made available to the
UN Environmental Program after the
Kosovo war and many of those on
the
two-meter
by two-meter map later given the UNEP represented DU-equipped
cuise missile targets, fired at deep
underground installations.
Last week in an article in the International
Herald Tribune there was an article
where a bombing site in the mountains
was visited and described as having
"no craters". This suggests to me DU.
Any comments or other information?
Robert James Parsons
Geneva, Switzerland
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