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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | US rejects Iraq DU clean-up We have no intention of doing any depleted uranium cleanup. How would you like to hear your returning son give you testimony like this? “Ray Bristow was tested in Canada for DU. He is open-minded about its role in his condition. But he says: “I remained in Saudi Arabia throughout the war. I never once went into Iraq or Kuwait, where these munitions were used. But the tests showed, in…

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Detained al-Qaeda Suspects “Disappeared” The Great USA now looks pretty much like a dictatorship to the rest of the world – it’s not a matter of “European fashion” as Bush would like you to believe. It’s a matter of breaking our own laws. “Disappearances’ were a trademark abuse of Latin American military dictatorships in their ‘dirty war’ on alleged subversion,” said Reed Brody, special counsel with Human Rights Watch. “Now they have become a United States tactic in its conflict…

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GIs claim threat by ArmySoldiers say they were told to re-enlist or face deployment to Iraq Here’s the news from our “volunteer army”: Soldiers from a Fort Carson combat unit say they have been issued an ultimatum – re-enlist for three more years or be transferred to other units expected to deploy to Iraq. Hundreds of soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team were presented with that message and a re-enlistment form in a series of assemblies last Thursday, said…

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