Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Fukushima Enriched Uranium Weapons Claims


This is a collection of notes on claims of Depleted and Enriched Uranium weapons, mostly by Chris Busby


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Oct 22, 2006 – work on these samples is underway we report here the preliminary ...Several samples were obtained from Lebanon. Two samples of soil from the area will be ... The first sample LS6 was a piece of impacted red soil or clay which had been thrown from the explosion of a heavy bomb or guided missile which ...
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Several samples were obtained from Lebanon. Two samples of soil from the area will be compared in this report. The first sample LS6 was a piece of impacted red soil or clay which had been thrown from the explosion of a heavy bomb or guidedmissile ... LS6 soil sample was taken from these debris near the Khiam crater. ...
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samples is underway we report here the preliminary results of these ... Several samples were obtained from Lebanon. Two samples of soil from the area will becompared in this report. The first sample LS6 was a piece of impacted red soil orclay which had been thrown from the explosion of a heavy bomb or guided bomb

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Evidence of Enriched Uranium in guided weapons employed by the Israeli Military in Lebanon in July 2006
Preliminary Note Chris Busby Dai Williams

There has been considerable interest since the first Gulf War in the use of battlefield
weapons employing Depleted Uranium and the effects of the fallout from these weapons
on local populations. Uranium metal has a high density and is pyrophoric, burning at very
high temperatures upon impact with a hard target. This makes it valuable for penetration
of armour. It was originally developed for this and showed its value against battlefield
tanks in the first Gulf War and later in the Balkans. More recently, there have been
suggestions (based on research on weapons patents) that uranium is being used as a
penetrator in certain bunker busting bombs and Cruise missiles.  

The US and UK military have consistently denied that this is so and owing to the
high degree of post battlefield control exercised by the US, in Afghanistan and Iraq, this
has been difficult to investigate.  

Most recently, there has been suspicion that the Israeli military operation in south
Lebanon has involved the use of bunker busting bombs and missiles employing uranium
warheads. It is probable that these weapons systems have been supplied to Israel by the
United States. 500 guided weapons were supplied to Israel via the UK in July 2006.   
The war in Lebanon finished on 14th  August. There was heavy bombing
throughout the four week conflict. One bomb crater in Khiam resulting from the use of a
large guided bomb was reported by Lebanese Press (Daily Star) on 21st
August to be mildly radioactive. On 17th September one of us (DW) visited Lebanon and obtained soil samples from various craters left behind by the use of bombs and missiles. A sample of soil from close to this crater was collected and was among other samples brought back to the UK from central and south Lebanon and examined by Green Audit using a
scintillation counter and also CR39 alpha tracking plastic methods. Since this sample
showed elevated radiation signatures using both methods, the sample was sent to the
Harwell laboratory in Oxfordshire for Mass Spectrometry to establish the concentration
of Uranium isotopes and the Uranium isotopic signature. Although further work on these
samples is underway we report here the preliminary results of these examinations

The results are summarized in Table 1 and Table 2. They show that the sample LS6 was
more radioactive than either the background or the Lebanon sample LS7 both in terms of
alpha and beta activity and LS6 contained significant amounts of Enriched Uranium. This
was shown by the isotopic ratio of 108 found by the Harwell measurements using a Mass
Spectrometer. The LS7 sample did not contain more Uranium than might be expected in
a normal soil and the isotope ratio was representative of normal Uranium.

Table 2 Results: Harwell Scientifics measurements using Mass Spectrometry. For LS6
the surface discoloured layer was used.



U-238
mg/Kg
U-235
mg/Kg
U total
mg/kg
Ratio
U238/235
Comment

site  238   235   total   ratio     conclusion
LS6    13  0.12   13.12     108  Enriched
LS6    13  0.12   13.12     108  Enriched
duplicate
LS7  0.92  0.007  0.927     131  Maybe enriched slightly
LS7  0.85  0.006  0.856     142  Probably normal
duplicate


The activity concentrations for total uranium were about 182Bq/kg for LS6 and about 11
Bq/kg for LS7 assuming an activity of about 14MBq/kg for Uranium. Soil Uranium
concentrations are usually between 5 and 20Bq/kg.

[PDF] Uranium and other contaminants in hair from the parents of children with congenital anomalies in Fallujah, Iraq

[PDF] from biomedcentral.comS Alaani, M Tafash, C Busby, M Hamdan… - Conflict and …, 2011 - biomedcentral.com
Abstract Background: Recent reports have drawn attention to increases in congenital birth
anomalies and cancer in Fallujah Iraq blamed on teratogenic, genetic and genomic stress
thought to result from depleted Uranium contamination following the battles in the town in ...
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Who is the American Free Press?
The American Free Press: Water-Boy for Anti-Semites and Conspiracy Theorists

Steve Shives
September 19, 2007

When a fringe conspiracy theorist like Alex Jones or the makers of Loose Change, or a bigot like David Duke cites a newspaper article to support his contention that George W. Bush planned 9/11 to help the Jews steal Iraq’s oil, say, chances are that article was published in the American Free Press. Nationalist, racist, free from the restrictive standards of actual journalism, it is the paper of record for politically minded ignorant lunatics all across the United States.

The American Free Press has only been published since 2001, but its roots reach back over fifty years. It was founded by far-right author and activist Willis Carto. Carto was an admirer of pro-Nazi writer Francis Parker Yockey, and was so impressed with Yockey’s book Imperium (isn’t that the perfect neo-fascist book title?) that he wrote one of his own, titled Profiles in Populism, which included glowing biographies of Thomas Jefferson, as well as Catholic priest/radio personality/Third Reich cheerleader Charles Coughlin, and industrialist and candid anti-Semite Henry Ford. In 1955 Carto founded Liberty Lobby, a nationalist and white supremacist political organization. He also started his own publishing house, Noontide Press, which reprinted Yockey’s Imperium as well as Henry Ford’s The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem and the completely discredited and exposed hoax The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

In 1975, Carto’s Liberty Lobby began publishing a weekly newspaper called The Spotlight. By the 1980s, circulation of The Spotlight was around 200,000. The paper went out of business, along with Liberty Lobby, after losing a lawsuit in 2001 to the Legion for the Survival of Freedom, another right-wing extremist organization. The website LibertyLobby.Org maintains an archive of Spotlight articles with headlines like “Alert: [Janet] Reno’s Police-State Power Grab,” and “Jefferson Did Not Father Child With Slave.”[1] Carto and his corps of loyal writers from The Spotlight soon regrouped, and later in 2001 published the first issue of their new weekly newspaper, the American Free Press.

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By Christopher Bollyn
updated January 7, 2004
Explaining How Depleted Uranium Is Killing Civilians, Soldiers, Land
Nano-particles pinpointed

By Christopher Bollyn

there is intense public interest in depleted uranium (DU) and the damage it inflicts on humankind and the environment. While American Free Press is actively investigating DU weapons and how they contribute to Gulf War Syndrome, the corporate-controlled press ignores the illegal use of DU and its long-lasting effects on the health of veterans and the public.

In August 2004 American Free Press published a ground-breaking four-part series on DU weapons and the long-term health risks they pose to soldiers and civilians alike. Information provided to AFP by experts and scientists, some of it published for the first time in this paper, has increased public awareness of how exposure to small particles of DU can severely affect human health.

Leuren Moret, a Berkeley-based geo-scientist with expertise in atmospheric dust, corresponds with AFP on DU issues. Recently Moret provided a copy of her letters to a British radiation biologist, Dr. Chris Busby, about how nanometer size particles—less than one-tenth of a micron and smaller—of DU once inhaled or absorbed into the body, can cause long-term damage to one’s health.

Busby is one of the founders of Green Audit, a British organization that monitors companies “whose activities might threaten the environment and health of citizens.”
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Fallujah

This was the bloodiest battle of the Iraq War to date, and is notable for being the first major engagement of the Iraq Warfought solely against insurgents rather than the forces of the former Baathist Iraqigovernment.

In February, 2004, control of Fallujah and the surrounding area in the Al-Anbar province was transferred from the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division to the 1st Marine Division. Shortly afterward, on 31 March 2004, four American Blackwater USAcontractors were ambushed and killed in the city. Images of their mutilated bodies were broadcast around the world.[21]
Within days, U.S. Marine Corps forces launched Operation Vigilant Resolve (4 April 2004) to take back control of the city from insurgent forces. On 28 April 2004, Operation Vigilant Resolve ended with an agreement where the local population is ordered to keep the insurgents out of the city.[20] The Fallujah Brigade, composed of local Iraqis under the command of Muhammed Latif, a former Baathist general, was allowed to pass through coalition lines and take over the city.
Insurgent strength and control began to grow to such an extent that by 24 September 2004, a senior U.S. official told ABC News that catching Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, said to be in Fallujah, was now "the highest priority," and estimated his troops at 5,000 men, mostly non-Iraqis.[22]

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  • 7 November 2004: U.S. Marines stage just north of Fallujah. In the city, now under complete insurgent control with no American presence since April, there is a large number of booby traps and IEDs constructed and set in place.[20][23] Additionally, elevated sniper positions have been created along with heavily fortified defensive positions throughout the city, in preparation for a major offensive. American UAVsobserved insurgents conducting live-fire exercises in the city in preparation for the coming attack.
  • 8 November 2004: Operation Phantom Fury begins.
  • 16 November 2004: American spokesmen describe fighting in the city as mopping up isolated pockets of resistance.
  • 23 December 2004: Last pockets of resistance are neutralized. Three U.S. Marines are killed in the last skirmish, along with 24 insurgents.[24] Operation Phantom Fury is the bloodiest battle of the Iraq War.

Insurgent forces

In April, Fallujah was defended by about 500 "hardcore" and 2,000+ "part time" insurgents. By November it was estimated[who?] that the numbers had doubled. Another estimate put the number of insurgents at 3,000; however a number of insurgent leaders escaped before the attack.[29] By the time of the attack on Fallujah in November 2004, the number of Insurgents in the city was estimated at around 3,000 to 4,000.[30]
The Iraqi insurgents and foreign mujahadeen present in the city prepared fortified defenses in advance of the anticipated attack.[20][23] They dug tunnels, trenches, prepared spider holes, and built and hid a wide variety of IEDs.[20][23] In some locations they filled the interiors of darkened homes with large numbers of propane bottles, large drums of gasoline, and ordnance, all wired to a remote trigger that could be set off by an insurgent when troops entered the building. They blocked streets with Jersey barriers and even emplaced them within homes to create strong points behind which they could attack unsuspecting troops entering the building.[31] Insurgents were equipped with a variety of advanced small arms, and had captured a variety of U.S. armament, including M14s, M16s, body armor, uniforms and helmets.[31]
They booby-trapped buildings and vehicles, including wiring doors and windows to grenades and other ordnance. Anticipating U.S. tactics to seize the roof of high buildings, they bricked up stairwells to the roofs of many buildings, creating paths into prepared fields of fire which they hoped the troops would enter.[31]
Intelligence briefings given prior to battle reported that Coalition forces would encounter Chechen, Filipino, Saudi, Iranian, Italian, and Syriancombatants, as well as native Iraqis.[32]
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Laka Finds No Evidence of DU in Lebanon

Published on October 2006 on the newsletter of Campaign Against Depleted Uraium (Cadu).
During and after the 33-day war in Lebanon it was rumoured that the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) were using DU anti-tank shells or other DU munitions. Much attention was focused on an article by Mohammed Zaatari in the Daily Star (August 21, 2006) in which nuclear physicist Dr. Ali Kobeissi, a member of the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research said that a crater caused by an Israeli munition in Khiam contained “a high degree of unidentified radioactive materials.”
Many people within the movement against uranium weapons considered Kobeissi’s statements as evidence for the alleged use of DU by the IDF. CADU had also been convinced by photos of IDF members loading anti-tank shells in early July.
In order to test the claims that DU had been used, Henk Van Der Keur from the Laka Foundation visited Lebanon as part of a delegation from the Amsterdam based organisation Dromen, Denk, Durven, Doen (Dreaming, Thinking, to Dare, to Do), who work on human rights issues in the Middle East.
On September 25th he visited Dr. Kobeissi in Nabatiyeh. He said that he had tested some deep pits made by Israeli weapons with a geiger counter from a local scrap dealer and that his results indicated the presence of uranium. He measured 50 nanosievert (nSv) per hour in the outside rim of the pits and 300 nSv in the heart of most pits with the exception of one which measured 800 nsV/h. He also declared that these dose rates in the pits decreased considerably day by day. Henk suggested that the higher rates could be due to the concentration of uranium in the ash (concentrated background radiation from the materials burnt in the impact) he agreed that this possibility is highly likely.
Dr Kobeissi had collected tens of samples from shrapnel and soil from more than 50 different sites. None of these samples measured a higher radiation dose rate than the background radiation rate. The samples were measured with a calibrated geiger counter from Laka Foundation.
Finally there is no reason to assume that the IDF has used DU anti-tank shells. Firstly there were no armoured targets in Lebanon and secondly mine clearance teams - present in many places in the south of Lebanon - because of the enormous numbers of cluster bombs – haven’t found any spent DU anti-tank shells.
Extra:
After CADU News had gone to press, researchers Dai Williams and Chris Busby released a paper suggesting that traces of low enriched uranium (LEU) had been found in the Khiam crater. This is a surprising find and there will be further analysis of the paper in the next issue. CADU are awaiting suggestions from Williams and Busby as to the likely source of the find.
A few days after their findings were published (making headline news in the Independent newspaper) the United Nations Environment Programme announced that they too had found no evidence of DU or radioactive materials in Lebanon.
Read the newsletter: http://www.cadu.org.uk/news/24.htm


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The 2006 Lebanon War

Israel and Hezbollah Square Off

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An Obscure Terrorist Group

Around lunchtime on April 19, 1983, a suicide bomber slammed a truck packed with 2,000 pounds of explosives through the entrance of the American Embassy along one of Beirut’s fashionable seaside avenues on the Mediterranean. The attack killed 63 people, most of them Lebanese employees at the embassy or visa applicants, 17 of them American.
Six months later two suicide bombers simultaneously attacked U.S. Marines’ barracks south of Beirut and French barracks in the eastern part of the Lebanese capital, killing 241 American soldiers and 57 French paratroopers. Hezbollah, the “Party of God,” a militant Lebanese Shiite organization, was born out of those bombings.
At the time Hezbollah called itself Islamic Jihad. It had been taking responsibility for bombings against French interests in Lebanon going back to 1980, when France sided with Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war. It had also been building itself up as a force to be reckoned with in south Lebanon.

How Hezbollah Replaced the PLO

The June 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon had driven out the Palestine Liberation Organization’s “state-within-a-state” it had built there since 1970. The invasion forced 6,000 PLO militants to leave the country. Mediating those militants out of Lebanon is what brought the U.S. Marines, the French and some Italian forces to Lebanon. Israel thought its problem in south Lebanon was over.
It wasn’t. South Lebanon is overwhelmingly Shiite. It’s been largely neglected by the central government since Lebanon became an independent nation in 1945, the country’s Maronite Christians and Sunni Muslims sharing the spoils of power at the expense of Shiites. When the PLO was forced out, Hezbollah saw its opportunity and filled the vacuum, both to Israel’s and the central government’s surprise.
An until-then unknown force gelled around two principles: A fundamentalist Islamic approach to governing inspired by the Iranian Revolution and financially supported by Iran; and opposition to the Israeli occupation.

Hezbollah’s Legitimacy in Lebanese Eyes

Hezbollah wasn’t the PLO. It was an indigenous Lebanese organization made up mostly of poor Lebanese Shiites looking to assert themselves in Lebanon. Throughout the 1980s, Hezbollah carried out that program by opposing all things Western and Israeli in Lebanon, taking numerous Americans hostage, and conducting a relentless guerilla war against the Israeli occupation until Israel finally withdrew completely from Lebanon in 2000.
Hezbollah called it the “liberation” of Lebanon, and its stock rose, at least in the eyes of Lebanese Shiites, for whom Hezbollah was a far more amenable, legitimate force than the PLO had ever been. To Israel and the United States, Hezbollah was just the latest Lebanese terrorist organization to wreak havoc on the country and on Israel.
To Hezbollah, its actions against Israel weren’t terrorism, but legitimate resistance. Following the 2000 Israeli withdrawal, Hezbollah took a far more politically minded road in Lebanese affairs as it saw Hezbollah politicians elected to the Lebanese parliament. But the organization continued the fight against Israel, because Hezbollah (and the Lebanese government) claimed that Israel hadn’t completely withdrawn: It still held on to a small strip of land in south Lebanon called Shebaa Farm.

Chronic Conflict with Israel

Minor incidents continued between Israel and Hezbollah from 2000 to 2005. Then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took the chronic strife as the price of living with a hostile frontier, a price not nearly as heavy as the one Israel was paying for its proximity to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Sharon, who had been the architect of the 1982 invasion and lost enormous prestige from that invasion’s ultimate failure, was not about to ratchet up the battle with Hezbollah.
His successor, Ehud Olmert, had different ideas.

The 2006 War

On July 12, 2006, Hezbollah militants fired on an Israeli patrol on Israel’s side of the border fence, killing three Israeli soldiers and seizing two of them. Olmert responded by bombarding parts of south and eastern Lebanon, then widening the bombing campaign to cover most of Lebanon in what became a 34-day all-out war between Hezbollah and Israel. Hezbollah retaliated with intense, daily, indiscriminate missile barrages at towns in northern Israel, and as far south as Haifa.
Olmert pledged to destroy Hezbollah’s military capacity. Hezbollah pledged not to stop its barrage until Israel ceased its operations, which included widespread incursions into south Lebanon.
It wasn’t until Aug. 14 that a cease-fired brokered by the United Nations ended hostilities. About 1,000 people, mostly Lebanese civilians, were killed, and 1 million Lebanese civilians and some 300,000 to 400,000 Israelis temporarily displaced. Both countries’ economies suffered, although Lebanon’s suffered far more as much of its infrastructure—roads, bridges, electricity and water plants—were damaged by Israel’s bombing campaign.

Israel’s Failed Objectives, Hezbollah’s Risen Stock

Israel’s objectives were not met. Hezbollah’s military capability was temporarily diminished but not destroyed, and its political stock rose in the eyes of Lebanese, including in the eyes of Christians who had previously opposed Hezbollah. Syria and Iran have reportedly restocked Hezbollah’s arsenal of missiles. Hezbollah’s boycott of the Lebanese government, which is Western-backed, has created a political stalemate, but also strengthened Hezbollah’s hand as a force in Lebanon’s future.
The 2006 Lebanon War, in sum, killed many, destroyed much, but advanced neither Israel’s objectives nor Lebanon’s. Only Hezbollah seemed to emerge from the conflict stronger than before it began, even though Lebanese army troops are now deployed in south Lebanon. With tensions still high between Israel, Syria and Hezbollah, the immediate future is uncertain. Within Lebanon, where presidential elections are slated for the latter part of 2007, the future is even more uncertain as murmurs of civil war, should the election fail to break the current stalemate, have been echoing in most ears.
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Arab doctor claims he has evidence Israel is using radiocative bombs against civilians. UN disagrees but he says their evidence is tainted by political pro-NATO agenda


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Radiation Measurements of craters produced by Israeli Bomardments on Lebanon
A Study by Gamma-, Alpha- and Mass- Spectroscopy Measurements of Uranium Isotopes Activity and Mass Ratios in Dust, Soil and Water Samples Obtained from Craters Produced by Israeli Bombardments on Lebanon during the July\August Conflict 2006.
By Dr. Mohammed Ali Kobeissi, Professor of Physics and Researcher, member of Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research.
Abstract: In this report we present results of the investigation on the possible use of depleted and non-depleted uranium by the Israeli bombardments on Lebanon during the July/August conflict 2006. The study was made on two dozens of dust and soil samples collected from appropriate craters of several areas in Lebanon using Gamma- Alpha- and Mass-spectroscopy techniques. Most of the results show no contaminations by DU except in Khiam crater area where high radio activity of uranium was present, which might indicate the use of weapons equipped with DU and dirty natural uranium.
Read the full text: kobeissi.pdf


http://www.newweapons.org/filestore/kobeissi.pdf

A Study by Gamma, Alpha and Mass Spectroscopy Measurements of
Uranium Isotopes Activity and Mass Ratios in Dust, Soil and Water
Samples Obtained from Craters Produced by Israeli Bombardments on
LebanonduringtheJuly\August Conflict2006.
By
Dr.MohammedAliKobeissi(ProfofPhysicsandIndependentResearcher)
PS:Theinterpretationsinthisreportarethesoleresponsibilityoftheauthor.Anycommentsorcritic
towardthisreportiswelcomed.
“ITISTHETRUTHWHICHMAKESYOUFREEMAN”
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9ThePathtoHarwellLaboratories:
InthewavesofconfusionaboutthepresenceofUraniumdepletedorenriched,andthelargeuncertaintyin
the measurements, I have decided to take my samples to Harwell Laboratory  and to perform my
measurements there, where Busby's measurements have beenconducted. This institution is scientific par excellence. I met thestaffoftheexpertsinthemass(spectroscopyandalpha(spectroscopymeasurements
techniques and discussed with them the problem regarding the dispute about the finding of enriched
uraniumfoundinthemeasurementsoftheLebanesesoilsintheirLaboratory.
91Procedure

First the samples were screened at Dr. Chris Busby's laboratory in Wales in Britain using beta and alpha radiation activity. Those samples which showed high values of beta radioactivities were selected and Itook them then to Harwell Laboratory to be studied by mass  and alphaspectroscopymethods.


The Israelis might have used weapons equipped with  high radio active industrial natural uranium in their missiles in this location

“The team also visited sites rumored to have been attacked with DU-containing weapons, including a site on Khiam. Samples were analyzed by a leading Swiss governmental laboratory in field of radiation. The results show no evidence of the use of weapons containing DU, natural uranium or any other uranium isotope composition”(Ref.5)

Well, the evidence is strongly proven in our above given results, where excess of natural uranium in crater
A and beside it the possible existence of DU in craterB in the Khiam site was found. The above statement also  says:  “Samples were analyzed by a leading Swiss governmental laboratory in field of radiation.”
Fine,  but  how  much  independent  and  objective  is  Spiez  Laboratory  Institution?  Does  it  belong  to  Swiss Military  or  not?  Is  it  connected  to  NATO?  Why  did  not  a  Lebanese  independent  research  scientist accompany UNEP during their measurements in Spiez Laboratory Institution for example? What is secret about it doing so?


BasedontheinformationofmeasurementsstatedbyUNEPintheirreports,IfoundoutthatHarwell
usesthesameproceduresofmeasurementsinmass(spectroscopyasitisdoneatSpiezLaboratoryusedby
UNEP.


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You may view here the video clips of the scientists’ comments on the scientific miracles in the Quran.  The text of these comments have been quoted in the book entitled A Brief Illustrated Guide To Understanding Islam and in this web site.  The video clips have been extracted from the videotape This is the Truth.  They are in RealPlayer format.  To view a video clip, click on its link below.
In August 2008, you should be able to view on this page the entire videotape This is the Truth in RealPlayer format.  Also you should find here then some info on how to order a copy of this videotape.
Note that the quality of these video clips and the videotape This is the Truth are a little bit low, due to the weakness of the original film.
By Dr. Mohammed Ali Kobeissi*
The interpretations and content of this report are the sol responsibility of the author**.
1-      The reporting of the use of Uranium by Israel and its denial by its officials
Since the declaration ( Daily Star, An-Nahar ) on August 20th-06 by the author of this article on the presence of high level of nuclear radiation in one of the missiles craters in Khiam caused by the Israeli bombardments, the dispute about the origin and cause of such radiation is still taking place in the media.
On December 7th-06, The Daily Star has reported again on the presence of Uranium in a soil sample obtained from the Khiam town bomb crater caused by Israeli air force bombardments     The report was taken from an interview given by the British expert, Dr. Chris Busby to the Environment and Development magazine in its December-06 issue.  In a detailed article written by Robert Fisk in the Independent (UK,October 28-06), followed by a long report in the As-Safir paper( Lebanon, October30-06), all stating that enriched Uranium has been found in the Khiam crater. Both,

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Hizbullah in politics: Lebanon.

The Economist (US)
September 7, 1996 | Copyright
BEIRUT
FOR practical purposes, Lebanon is a satrapy of Syria. Still, it is holding a general election. Guess what, its incumbent and Syrian-backed premier, Rafik Hariri, is doing very nicely. Yet it still has something to worry about. Voting is due this weekend-the election has been staggered, by regions, over a period of weeks-in southern Lebanon. And this is the stronghold of Hizbullah, the Iranian-backed Shia movement born in resistance to Israel's 1982 invasion and continued occupation of the south, and now competing for a big place in politics.http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-18652101.html


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By Dr. Mohammed Ali Kobeissi*
The interpretations and content of this report are the sol responsibility of the author**.
1-      The reporting of the use of Uranium by Israel and its denial by its officials
Since the declaration ( Daily Star, An-Nahar ) on August 20th-06 by the author of this article on the presence of high level of nuclear radiation in one of the missiles craters in Khiam caused by the Israeli bombardments, the dispute about the origin and cause of such radiation is still taking place in the media.
On December 7th-06, The Daily Star has reported again on the presence of Uranium in a soil sample obtained from the Khiam town bomb crater caused by Israeli air force bombardments     The report was taken from an interview given by the British expert, Dr. Chris Busby to the Environment and Development magazine in its December-06 issue.  In a detailed article written by Robert Fisk in the Independent (UK,October 28-06), followed by a long report in the As-Safir paper( Lebanon, October30-06), all stating that enriched Uranium has been found in the Khiam crater. Both,
I believe that more investigations on the appropriate soil samples in our possession are necessary to obtain a definite answer to whether Depleted Uranium or Enriched Uranium has been used by the Israelis. The results given above are not conclusive enough to give a final answer to this affair. In a future task, we will use a more precise different methodology to obtain a decisive answer to the uranium problem in Lebanon.
Based on the above results and the immoral behavior of Israel in its wars and attacks on Lebanon, one can not exclude the use of missiles equipped with DU by  Israel.
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Morality and Duty of Institutions
Few thoughts should be given related to the moral duty of the press and the scientific communities in Lebanon and abroad regarding the use of Uranium by  Israel in its wars on that country.
In the last few decades and so, several wars have been conducted against humanity, where dirty weapons, such as depleted uranium, have been used. The effect of such crime on the health and social life of the people, who were subject to such attacks, was catastrophic in countries like Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq. The case in Lebanon is still pending for further studies and investigation. Thus it is the moral duty of the press and the media to enlighten the public in a scientific approach about the health effect of the use of Uranium on the population of Lebanon. The press and other media must adder to the principles of creating awareness among the population about the danger of nuclear radiation be it artificial or natural radiation.
Governmental scientific or non scientific institutions should not threaten nor prevent the press or the scientists, from enlightening the Lebanese people in a humane manner about the possible presence of Uranium in Lebanon, caused by Israeli wars against that country, so that preventive actions can be taken. Any action against enlightenment is crime toward the Lebanese people.



Depleted and Enriched Uranium in Lebanon, a Scientific Approach to the Clarification of whether Uranium was used in the Israeli/Lebanon Conflict.
By Dr. Mohammed Ali Kobeissi*
The interpretations and content of this report are the sol responsibility of the author**.
1-      The reporting of the use of Uranium by Israel and its denial by its officials
Since the declaration ( Daily Star, An-Nahar ) on August 20th-06 by the author of this article on the presence of high level of nuclear radiation in one of the missiles craters in Khiam caused by the Israeli bombardments, the dispute about the origin and cause of such radiation is still taking place in the media.
On December 7th-06, The Daily Star has reported again on the presence of Uranium in a soil sample obtained from the Khiam town bomb crater caused by Israeli air force bombardments     The report was taken from an interview given by the British expert, Dr. Chris Busby to the Environment and Development magazine in its December-06 issue.  In a detailed article written by Robert Fisk in the Independent (UK,October 28-06), followed by a long report in the As-Safir paper( Lebanon, October30-06), all stating that enriched Uranium has been found in the Khiam crater. Both, The Independent and AS-Safir, have relied on results in a report obtained from Dr. Chris Busby and his co-worker Dai Williams. In a conference arranged in Linz ( Austria) on the Use of Dirty Weapons by Israel on Lebanon, where I took part in the Lectures of that Conference, a copy of that report was also submitted to me on October 26-06 by Williams.  Such report at that time has created an atmosphere of anxiety among the Lebanese citizens and confusions among the scientific community.
This situation has created also panic in the social and health stream in Lebanon. In several of these reporting and on Web sites, the dispute on whether the soil of Khiam crater contains enriched Uranium or depleted Uranium (DU) is still taking place and yet no definite conclusion is established, while it is well known that in the modern wars depleted uranium has been used. The Lebanese Council for Scientific Research  and  UNEP are still declaring that no DU has been found in their investigation on samples taken from places of the war actions.
       In this article I would like to clarify this affaire, based on the study of the British team  as well as on my investigations and measurements on about 11  craters soil samples that I have recently carried out in two reputable Laboratories in Europe.
2- Historic Background
a-) In the War Zone in South Lebanon    
          The 33 days war waged on Lebanon by Israel starting on July 12th-06, has left a large part of the Lebanese infrastructure in a complete destruction. Weapons of highly powerful explosives were used with a tremendous efficiency, so that homes, high rise buildings and  high way bridges have been flattened to the ground. Road communications between the cities in south Lebanon and elsewhere in the country were cut using weapons such as bunker busters. Hundreds of thousands of civilians of the population were forced to leave the south to other safe community places in the country. Children suffered the most and many were killed and some were burned in indiscriminate attacks.
During the first 20 days of the war, I remained in my residential area in South Lebanon witnessing the Israeli war planes throwing missiles on towns, including schools, markets, moving cars and fleeing civilians and massacres have been committed by the Israelis. The craters caused by these missiles ranged from small size of depth of 4 meters to about 10 meters and larger in some cases. I do not know why the fear did not penetrate into the senses of my existence. May be the barbarism committed by the Israelis toward life creates a much higher values in man's consciousness , where during that war the roots of freedom develops into transcendental noble values, where Death becomes a small instant of time to arrive to a nirvana state of celestial values.
b-) South  Beirut under Attacks
      On August 2-06, I moved to a residential place on a hill, overlooking the southern city of Beirut. During my staying there I saw how that part of the city was rained by the Israeli missiles causing huge clouds of dusts mixed with flames of fires.    
Being a nuclear physicist and expert in nuclear radiation measurements, these phenomena brought to my mind the possible use by the Israelis of missiles and bombes equipped with Depleted Uranium ( DU) as was the case in the two Gulf wars on Irak.
Directly after the cessation of the bombardment on August 14th-06, and knowing the effect of the use of DU on the health of the population, I went to South Beirut to explore and see at the first hand the destruction there. The whole section looked like Berlin during World War II as was presented as a comparison by the media: flattened high rise buildings were sandwiched to the ground, black dust, suspected to be Uranium Oxides, covered the remaining of concretes, and bad smells originated from dead human bodies buried under the ruins and from the weapons chemicals.
3-Radiation Activities  in the Craters of the Khiam  Town
       On August 20th and after I returned to my residence in the south, I received a telephone call from the town of Khiam stating the detection of strong radiations in one of the missiles craters in a residential area of the town and asking for my help. Using a very sensitive Geiger-Muller counter(GM), I went down to the bottom of the crater. The counter registered 850 nSV/h (850 nSV per hour) at the deep point. This dose was about 14 times more than the measured dose value of 50 nSV/h I have obtained at the surface area in the surroundings of that crater. This event was reported in the Lebanese press in the next day (Daily Star, Al-Akhbar, An-Nahar).
4- The Chasing   after the Depleted Uranium ( DU)
      At that day, I took samples from that crater and other craters in the town and outside it. To make sure that I have collected the right samples I called Dr. Doug Rokke, a former US Army Major and a Lecturer at Jackson Vill University and who is an expert on missiles containing DU, describing to him the appearance of the craters soils and asking him for advice on the collection of the  appropriate  soil samples to be taken for the investigation. I took the advice of this noble man and extended my samples collection to other towns in the south such as Froun, Ghandouria, Teery, Bint-Jbeil and Ainata, and including dust samples from South  Beirut buildings, in order to measure radiation emanated from these samples using Gamma and Alpha Spectroscopy. During the samples collections I have also measured by GM radiation in the other craters from which the samples were obtained using the same counter. These measured doses were about 5 times as the surface dose and not as high as the one I have measured in the very first crater in Khiam. During the process of samples collections, Mr. Dai Williams, who is a co-worker of Dr. Busby on DU,  was present in Lebanon at that time, has asked if he can accompany me to collect few samples to take back to his country England. One of the samples he took, was from the Khiam crater which showed relatively high level of radiations as I mentioned above and which still under dispute.      
5- Motivation of the task for Uranium measurements
  Having detected such high level of radiations and knowing the effect of such radiation on the health of the Lebanese people and the toxicity of the radio active Uranium, Depleted or enriched, I was prompted to take the initiative, as independent researcher, in collaboration  with Green Line Organization in Lebanon, to set up a project to carry out measurements on soil samples that I have taken from craters of various areas in the country and specially the one from Khiam crater, which showed the high activity mentioned above. Then I went to Europe to execute such project in two and highly reputable Laboratories.
I would like to emphasize here that no collaboration between me and the British team of Dr. Chris Busby took place regarding the measurements of samples or interpretations of data. My task of investigation was to be independent of any governmental influence or any other institutions.
6-Methodologies
Several methodologies are used to measure depleted Uranium and we mention only two concerning this article:
a)-The Gamma Spectroscopy Method
 This method was used in our measurements, where in the gamma spectra, peaks activities of Uranium isotopes U-238 and U-235 are usually compared to get a value for these isotopes ratio. The value of this ratio depends on the enrichment or depletion of Uranium. For natural Uranium this ratio has a value of 21.7, which corresponds to an enrichment of 0.71% by the U-235 isotope. Any increase in the ratio factor is an indication of the presence of depleted uranium. The opposite is true, where the decrease in this factor is an indication of enrichment in the Uranium content. The validity of any interpretations of such values of the ratio depends on the margin of the uncertainty in the error of measurements.
       In general, the errors of the measurements result from uncertainties of the detector efficiency in combination with the sample geometry and the low samples activities. The total error of the isotopes ratios in our measurements can be estimated as about 15%. Thus it must be clear that all these factors play an important role in the interpretations of data and the confidence in their values. In our measurements on the disputed Khiam sample gave a ratio value of 26  between the activities of the two isotopes U-238 and U-235. This ratio corresponds to a percentage enrichment of 0.60 % as compared to the natural enrichment of 0.71%. This former value of enrichment is in contradiction with value obtained by Busby's result of enriched uranium as will be discussed below.
b)- The Mass Spectroscopy Method Used by Busby and Dai Williams at Harwell Laboratory
In this method the ratio of the masses of the isotopes U-238 and U235 is used to determine depleted or enriched Uranium content in the collected samples.
For natural Uranium this ratio is 138 which correspond to an enrichment of 0.72%. Lower values than 138 indicate enrichment above 0.72% and higher values indicate depleted Uranium content.
For the Khiam sample, the published results of the measurement obtained from Harwell Laboratory for Chris Busby and his co-worker Dai Williams, who have evaluated and interpreted  them, showed mass ratio of 108, corresponding to an enriched Uranium of 0.91%,which is higher than the natural enrichment of 0.72% . ( See bellow) .
  Discussion of the results obtained by the author and the Team of Chris Busby
a)- Results obtained by M.A.Kobeissi and co-workers.
Almost all the samples we have investigated and measured their ratio factor in Europe showed normal behavior of natural Uranium content except the one taken from the Khiam crater under dispute. The sample of this crater showed a much higher content of Uranium and its decay products than those obtained from other samples we have investigated and obtained from other locations in the South. This activity of that sample is in line also with the high counting I have measured earlier in that crater with Geiger Muller detector.  As we mentioned above the ratio factor of this sample was 26 as compared with 21.7 for natural Uranium. This might indicate that the soil of that crater is contaminated with depleted Uranium. This factor corresponds to an enrichment of 0.60% as compared with the value of 0.71% of natural Uranium and compared with 0.91% stated by Busby..
b)-Results obtained by Busby and Williams
Some of the samples taken by Dai Williams were reported as normal but again for the Khiam sample, the published results of the measurements obtained from Harwell Laboratory for Chris Busby and co-worker Dai Williams, who have evaluated and interpreted them, showed mass ratio of 108 as compared to 138 for natural uranium. This value of 108 corresponds to an enriched Uranium of 0.91%, which is higher than the natural enrichment of 0.72% . This value contradicts strongly our result of 0.60 % enrichment, which indicates the presence of depleted Uranium. The percentage error stated in Busby's report was given as 20%.
Conclusion:
Based on the above we conclude that in our measurements the percentage enrichment ranges as: 0.48 < 0.60 < 0.70 indicating depleted uranium content in the disputed Khiam crater.
On the other hand, in Busby's results, the percentage  enrichment ranges as: 0.73 < 0.91 < 1.1 which indicates enriched uranium.
  The results obtained from both methodologies show definite contradiction. I believe the cause lies in the following factors:
1-     Instrumental and procedural. In order to obtain believable results high precision instrumentation and procedures must be followed. The results from both methodologies are subject to errors uncertainties which can put doubt on any obtained values with such margin of errors.
2-     The choice of appropriate samples collection is very crucial in this case. I have found for example that enrichment in one sample A taken from the disputed Khiam crater was 0.72%, a normal natural enrichment, while the enrichment obtained from sample B taken from the same crater as A but from an opposite location within the crater, was 0.60%, which indicates possible content of DU. This shows inhomogeneous distribution of radio active elements in the crater soil.
3-     The more important cause of the discrepancy in the results given above is the question of how much is the amount of Uranium delivered by the missile explosion to the location soil of the crater. Since this amount will determine the activity of the samples as well as the quantity of the DU mass. Such amount will play a crucial roll in the precision of the measurements, since for small contaminating amount, it will be very difficult to measure small activity and mass of Uranium in such increases without a large margin in uncertainty in the achieved values of the measurements of enrichment or depletion. This depends also on the methodologies used in this case  
I believe that more investigations on the appropriate soil samples in our possession are necessary to obtain a definite answer to whether Depleted Uranium or Enriched Uranium has been used by the Israelis. The results given above are not conclusive enough to give a final answer to this affair. In a future task, we will use a more precise different methodology to obtain a decisive answer to the uranium problem in Lebanon.
Based on the above results and the immoral behavior of Israel in its wars and attacks on Lebanon, one can not exclude the use of missiles equipped with DU by  Israel.
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Morality and Duty of Institutions
Few thoughts should be given related to the moral duty of the press and the scientific communities in Lebanon and abroad regarding the use of Uranium by  Israel in its wars on that country.
In the last few decades and so, several wars have been conducted against humanity, where dirty weapons, such as depleted uranium, have been used. The effect of such crime on the health and social life of the people, who were subject to such attacks, was catastrophic in countries like Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq. The case in Lebanon is still pending for further studies and investigation. Thus it is the moral duty of the press and the media to enlighten the public in a scientific approach about the health effect of the use of Uranium on the population of Lebanon. The press and other media must adder to the principles of creating awareness among the population about the danger of nuclear radiation be it artificial or natural radiation.
Governmental scientific or non scientific institutions should not threaten nor prevent the press or the scientists, from enlightening the Lebanese people in a humane manner about the possible presence of Uranium in Lebanon, caused by Israeli wars against that country, so that preventive actions can be taken. Any action against enlightenment is crime toward the Lebanese people.
The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Environment in Lebanon must have the moral duty also to take more dynamic actions and  to approach the Lebanese people on the ground  to assure them  their save locations and their psychological health . The present government is not doing enough in that
direction.  
  • University Professor of Physics and Researcher,
email : makobeissi@yahoo.com
** Detailed information on data and results can be obtained from Green Line Organization in Lebanon or from the author. The author would like to thank the Green Line Organization in Lebanon and the Society of the Austro-Arab Relations for the financial  support of the project.



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