NewsMine — deceptions — war-syndrome — 2004 — Viewing Item

GIs ill from depleted uranium dust { April 10 2004 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-nysold103749694apr10,0,7624189,print.story?coll=ny-health-headlines http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-nysold103749694apr10,0,7624189,print.story?coll=ny-health-headlines DEPLETED URANIUM GIs: Dust made us ill BY WIL CRUZ STAFF WRITER April 10, 2004 David Rodriguez's symptoms started with muscular back pain last summer. By the end of his seven-month stint in Iraq in August, the Army specialist had dizziness, diarrhea and blurred vision. On Friday, Rodriguez, one of nine soldiers to become sick from the National Guard's 442nd Military Police Company based in Rockland County, said the symptoms persist. "Right now," said Rodriguez, 31, a firefighter at Engine Co. 6 in Manhattan, "I have a headache, chest pains. I've had them for about three months straight." Rodriguez joined five soldiers from his unit and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to draw attention to medical problems experienced by those who may have been exposed to depleted uranium in Iraq and to ask the Army to improve its testing and treatment policies. The United States uses depleted uranium in weapons and tank armor. It is dense, and when shells containing it strike a target, radioactive dust is formed. "According to the doctor, we inhaled it," Sgt. Agustin Matos said. "It was in the air." Soldiers from the company, who include New York firefighters, police officers and corrections officers, said they began having symptoms while they were stationed in Samawah last summer. Nine of the soldiers, after growing frustrated with the Army's testing process and treatment, were later examined by an independent uranium expert. Some of the soldiers said they asked the Army to test them and were refused. The independent expert's tests showed four of the soldiers had high levels of depleted uranium in their systems. The others also remain sick, said the soldiers at the news conference in Fresh Meadows. The story was first reported in the Daily News, and the Army this week began testing all of the soldiers in the unit. Army spokeswoman Cynthia Smith told The Associated Press on Friday that the military would do "the right thing," and test any soldier concerned about uranium exposure. Copyright © 2004, Newsday, Inc.

Alarm over nato uranium deaths { January 3 2001 } Army promises testing for depleted uranium Army to test newyork guard unit for du GIs ill from depleted uranium dust { April 10 2004 } GIs tested for depleted uranium { April 6 2004 } Inexplicable ailments 442nd military police Japanese studying depleted uranium taken hostage Radiation iraq equals 250 thousand nagasaki bombs Rare pneumonia strikes US troops in iraq Soldiers baby deformed Soldiers demand to know health risks Uk warned over uranium in 1991 { January 11 2001 } Us troops found radioactive Files Listed: 13

Correction/submissions

CIA FOIA Archive

National Security Archives

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information, go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purpose of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.