IRAQ: IRAQ AGAIN ACCUSES ITS ADVERSARIES OF USING DEPLETED URANIUM DURING THE GULF WAR

Record ID: 648390

  • Title: IRAQ: IRAQ AGAIN ACCUSES ITS ADVERSARIES OF USING DEPLETED URANIUM DURING THE GULF WAR
  • Date: 9th January 2001
  • Summary: IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER, IRAQ (JANUARY 9, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. PULL OUT: DEMILITARISED ZONE/ CU SIGN (2 SHOTS) 0.12 2. GV/LV'S: DESTROYED IRAQI TANKS AND ARTILLERY (3 SHOTS) 0.27 BASRA, SOUTHERN IRAQ (JANUARY 9, 20010) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 3. MV: GENERAL TEACHING HOSPITAL, PEOPLE WAITING FOR TREATMENT 0.35 4. VARIOUS: IRAQI PATIENTS WAITING FOR TREATMENT (3 SHOTS) 0.46 5. MV: DR. JAWAD AL-ALI ENTERING INTO HIS ROOM TO TREAT PATIENT AHMED KARIM SUFFERING FROM LEUKEAMIA 0.54 6. SV: AL-ALI EXAMINING PATIENT 1.06 7. SCU: SOUNDBITE (English) DR. JAWAD AL-ALI SAYING: "In my opinion, the great factor which caused cancer is the radiation from the use of DU, on the Western part, where the American and British delivered more than 300 tonnes of depleted uranium." 1.25 8. SCU: PATIENT YASSEN KARIM 1.31 9. SV: DR. ALI TREATING FORMER IRAQI SOLDIER YASSEN HAMID WHO IS SUFFERING FROM LEUKAEMIA 1.39 10. SCU: SOUNDBITE (Arabic) BY THE PATIENT YASSEN HAMID SAYING: "I was in Kuwait, we were hit by missiles, that caused my leukaemia." 1.49 11. SV: DR. ALI TREATING FAUD RAHIM SUFFERING FROM LEUKAEMIA 1.57 12. SCU: MOTHER OF FAUD WEEPING /PULL OUT TO ALI TRAETING CHILD 2.14 13. PAN DOWN: FAUD RAHIM 2.24 14. SCU: SOUNDBITE (English) DR. ALI SAYING: "Before the war, we had an incidence of 11 patients for each 100,000 of population, and now it raised to 96 - it is about nine times or more ." 2.42 15. PAN: PATIENTS IN WARD 2.54 16. MV: POLICEMAN AT THE STREET 2.58 17. VARIOUS: STREET SCENES IN BASRA PROVINCE (4 SHOTS) 3.16 FILE (UNKNOWN LOCATION IRAQ) (UNKNOWN SOURCE) 18. GV: NIGHT SKY LIT UP DURING AIR RAID 3.37 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 24th January 2001 12:00
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  • Location: BASRA AND BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA46AT0N0I4HJ8W5ANZ0VGTCTVY
  • Story Text: Iraq has again accused its Gulf War adversaries of
    using depleted uranium during the conflict and causing an
    increase in cancer among its population.


    The depleted uranium left in the Iraqi environment
    after the Gulf War has prompted a nine-fold increase in cases
    of cancer according to Doctor Jawad Al-Ali who practices at a
    hospital in Basra, near the Iraq-Kuwait border.

    The United States maintains there is "absolutely no
    proof" of any link between the armour-penetrating depleted
    uranium and the potentially fatal blood cancer, a view
    supported by the World Health Organisation and NATO officials.

    But the Nato alliance is under strong political pressure
    to stop using the munitions pending an expert investigation
    and to agree on health checks for soldiers who have served in
    the Balkans, where the metal was also used.

    Depleted uranium, almost twice as dense as lead, has
    properties which make it ideal as an armour-piercing round and
    as armour protection against conventional rounds.

    It is a by-product of the refining process used to produce
    weapons-grade uranium for nuclear power plants or warheads but
    emits a lower level of radiation than naturally-occurring
    uranium ore.


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