Enriched uranium was used in Iraq

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Christopher Busby says in this interview that enriched (not depleted) uranium was found in a study that analyzed the hair of 25 fathers and 25 mothers of children with congenital malformations from Fallujah. He says that one possible explanation for this is that they have developed a neutron device that uses enriched uranium as part of its components to generate neutrons. 

 

There is another interview published in Veterans Today where he talks about this and explains it further. Excerpt:

 

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/11/03/new-bombs-and-war-crimes-in-fallujah/

 

[...] And so there was evidently some other cause in order to answer to the fact that the levels of cancer were higher than had been reported following Hiroshima.  So we’re talking about some sort of agent which causes massive genetic damage in a population.  And of course everyone said ‘well it must be depleted uranium.’ But of course this was an epidemiological study so we didn’t we couldn’t say anything about depleted uranium or what it was.

But in order to investigate it, we then decided to go ahead and have a look at a group of parents of children with congenital malformations.  And so one of the team who was a pediatrician at Fallujah General Hospital organized 25 fathers and 25 mothers of children with serious congenital malformations, many of these died of course, and took hair samples from these people and we analyzed those hair samples using quite sophisticated technique, or Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICPMS).

And we looked at 52 elements in the hair samples of these people and we found quite large increases in a whole range of elements but most of them were innocuous, things like calcium and aluminum and magnesium, which are not likely to cause congenital malformations.  In fact, the only thing that we found apart from uranium that might have been implicated was mercury.  But the source and levels of congenital malformations that we had found, and in fact there is another paper which hasn’t been published yet which does show these levels at very high levels of congenital malformation.  The only thing that could explain it was uranium.

The interesting thing about the uranium was that we were able to measure the isotopic ratio because we were interested to see whether it was, you know, natural uranium or was it DU, which is what we thought it would be.  But in fact it turned out to be slightly enriched uranium [with U-235], so, that is to say, it was manmade enriched uranium.

Now enriched uranium is a material that should only be found in a nuclear power station or inside an atomic bomb.  So to find it in the hair of the parents of these children with congenital malformations was really astonishing.

So we then went to look to see how this could be, and to cut a long story short, we concluded from various patents from the US patent office that we received from physicists, that it was quite entirely likely that there was a new secret weapon being used, an anti-personnel weapon of some sort which contained enriched uranium or else generated enriched uranium.

And so there are basically two possibilities.  One is that they are using this enriched uranium.  It’s only mildly enriched uranium, to cover their tracks, so that afterwards nobody can come to them, you know, with a whole trail of people with cancer and congenital disease and say ‘Hey look, we’re going to sue you” because then they can say “Well, you know, there’s no depleted uranium there.’

And the alternative – which is sort of science fictional and which is entirely possible – I have to say, which is that they have developed a sort of neutron device which uses enriched uranium as part of its components to generate neutrons.  And the way it does this is to dissolve tritium in uranium powder.  Like deuterium, heavy hydrogen is very soluble in uranium, and when it is compressed, when the saturated solution is compressed, you can get a cold fusion reaction which produced helium-4 and neutrons, and so that too is a possibility.  But of course we don’t know what the answer is.

And interestingly enough, and also connected to this, is the fact that we know from various papers that have been published that the Gulf War veterans, the US Gulf War veterans, have also had a very high and statistically significant increase in congenital malformations in their children.  But the uranium source of this has been excluded on the basis of urine tests which show that there is no depleted uranium.  But of course, what we have discovered is that there wouldn’t be depleted uranium because it is enriched uranium. [...]