government - and calls for an immediate halt to the practice.

Dr. Doug Rokke's military career spanned four decades before he was

appointed as the head of the US Army's investigative team into the

assessment and teaching of the dangers of depleted uranium.

Dr. Rokke has been called upon as an advisor for the Centers of

Disease Control, Department of Defense, National Academy of Sciences,

Institute of Medicine, U.S Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S.

Department of Transportation, FAA, U.S. Department of Defense. U.S.

General Accounting Office, Department of Veterans Affairs, British

Royal Society, British House of Lords and House of Commons, United

Nations, and Presidential Special Oversight Board.

Depleted uranium is a radioactive toxic poison - according to

Wikipedia, "Depleted uranium is a byproduct of the enriching of

natural uranium for use in nuclear reactors. When most of the fissile

radioactive isotopes of uranium are removed from natural uranium, the

residue is called depleted uranium."

Depleted uranium is indiscriminate in who it targets. During an

appearance on the Alex Jones Show, Dr. Rokke described some of the

effects of depleted uranium - a battlefield weapon that once used can

never be cleaned up and remains in the atmosphere for eternity.

"What we know from first hand experience and what happened to those of

us in Gulf War I and when we did our research for the US Army - the

first thing that hits you is respiratory problems, then you have the

rashes, then you start having permanent lung damage within a few

months because of radiation and chemical toxicity, then you have

neurological problems, then you have gastrointestinal problems."

"You have decalcification of the bones and the teeth - then you have

all the eye problems due to the alpha and beta damage to the eyes -

and then the cancers, the leukemia and everything else," said Rokke.

"It's catastrophic, the US Army briefing the Pentagon leaders prior to

Gulf War II in 2002 flat out acknowledged all of the problems yet they

disregard them and say that they don't exist in public."

Following the bombing of Afghanistan a scientific study by British

scientists Dr. Chris Busby and Saoirse Morgan concluded that high

levels of depleted uranium had contaminated Europe, having drifted on

air currents from the Middle East and Central Asia.

Rokke said the Israelis first used depleted uranium munitions against

the Egyptians during the Arab-Israeli war in 1973-74.

He outlined the path to the Israeli use of depleted uranium munitions,

the 'civilized world's' dirty bombs, in Lebanon over the last two weeks.

Extreme birth deformities across Iraq and the Balkans are attributed

to indiscriminate use of depleted uranium.

"The US Army confirmed they had used over 500 tons of uranium

munitions just in the first two months in Iraq - that's the shock and

awe - the US Army thoroughly confirmed in that the GBU 28 - which is a

precision guided bomb if you will - 5,000 pounds of explosives

contains a uranium warhead - again these are the bunker busters," said

Rokke.

"Well low and behold last week guess what the United States delivered

to Israel - over 100 GBU 28's to use against targets in Lebanon."

"The Army thoroughly confirmed that its a radioactive bomb and the

shrapnel is there after its use and it's a problem and everything else

so it's all there."

"So now we have photographic confirmation - and I want to repeat -

photographic confirmation of Israeli tankers loading uranium rounds

into Israeli tanks and using them in Lebanon," Rokke told Jones.

"What we have now is deliberate use of radioactive munitions, depleted

uranium munitions, which are illegal according to the United Nations."

"We've got all the Lebanese being effected, all the women and children

being affected, all the Israelis being effected, and the areas over

there are so small you're going to have the whole region effected and

contaminated."

"We knew about the GBU 28 delivery, we knew that was a given thing -

now we were looking at the damage that's being done to Lebanon and all

the damage indicates DU but until we actually got the full photograph

of the DU round being loaded by an Israeli tank gunner we didn't have

that and that came in yesterday," said Rokke.

The photographs of Israeli soldiers loading DU munitions were

strangely deleted from numerous different news websites shortly after

they were published but we were able to retrieve these smaller

versions from the Getty archive which are captioned below.

LEBANESE BORDER, ISRAEL - JULY 14: An Israeli army soldier carries

armor-piercing ammunition as he loads his tank ahead of possible

action against Hezbollah militants July 14, 2006 on Israel's northern

border with Lebanon. Israel has stepped up its action against

Hezbollah targets in an effort to drive the Islamic militants from the

border and to force the return of two soldiers captured by the group

in a cross-border attack two days ago on July 12. (Photo by David

Silverman/Getty Images)

LEBANESE BORDER, ISRAEL - JULY 14: Israeli army tank crew load their

Merkeva tanks with armor-piercing ammunition as they prepare for

possible action against Hezbollah militants July 14, 2006 on Israel's

northern border with Lebanon. Israel has stepped up its action against

Hezbollah targets in an effort to drive the Islamic militants from the

border and to force the return of two soldiers captured by the group

in a cross-border attack two days ago on July 12.

Rokke expands on Israeli use of depleted uranium mission in an article

in which he states that, "the use of uranium weapons is absolutely

unacceptable, and a crime against humanity. Consequently the citizens

of the world and all governments must force cessation of uranium

weapons use. I must demand that Israel now provide medical care to all

DU casualties in Lebanon and clean up all DU contamination."

On Tuesday we carried a video of Lebanese doctors describing injuries

to children as showing all the hallmarks of phosphorous - a chemical

weapon also highly contentious in battlefield use.

In a related development, former NSA official Wayne Madsen was told by

his sources that the Israelis deliberately targeted and killed four UN

observers because they had obtained knowledge of Israeli atrocities

being perpetrated against the Lebanese population.

Prison Planet.tv members can listen to a 50 minute interview with Dr.

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