Iraq Coalition Casualty Statistics/Depleted Uranium

The following are links related to Iraq Coalition Casualty Statistics and Illness due to Depleted Uranium (DU).

Also see:
 * Iraq Coalition Casualty Statistics
 * Iraq Coalition Casualty Statistics/External Links (March-April 2003)
 * Iraq Coalition Casualty Statistics/External Links (May-September 2003)
 * Iraq Coalition Casualty Statistics/External Links (October-December 2003)
 * Iraq Coalition Casualty Statistics/External Links (2004)
 * Iraq Coalition Casualty Statistics/Pre-War News Items
 * Iraq Coalition Casualty Statistics/AWOL/Desertion
 * Iraq Coalition Casualty Statistics/Soldier Suicides
 * Iraq Coalition Casualty Statistics/Gulf War Illness

- Government Documents
 * Operation Iraqi Freedom: Iraqi casualties
 * Post-war Iraq


 * Depleted Uranium Handbook/VHA 1303.1, April 16, 2003: Evaluation Protocol for Gulf War Veterans with Potential Exposure to Depleted Uranium (DU).


 * Depleted Uranium (DU) Codesheet/Depleted Uranium (DU) Questionnaire.

Articles


 * 30 March 2003: "US Forces' Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons is 'Illegal'" by Neil Mackay, Sunday Herald (Scotland).
 * 17 April 2003: "Scientists Urge Shell Clear-Up to Protect Civilians. Royal Society spells out dangers of depleted uranium" by Paul Brown, Guardian/UK.
 * 15 May 2003: "Remains of Toxic Bullets Litter Iraq. The Monitor finds high levels of radiation left by US armor-piercing shells" by Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor.
 * 15 June 2003: "Depleted Uranium Arms Pose Risks to Troops, Residents" by Barbara Borst, AP.
 * 22 July 2003: "Warning of Toxic Aftermath from Uranium Munitions" by Anthony Cardinale, Buffalo News.
 * 3 August 2003: "Looted and For Sale in Iraq: The Deadly Core of Nuclear Weapons. Exclusive: Potentially lethal radioactive sources missing from Saddam's biggest N-plant" by David Pratt and Felicity Arbuthnot, Sunday Herald (Scotland).
 * 4 August 2003: "War's Unintended Effects. Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons Lingers as Health Concern" by Larry Johnson, Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
 * 12 September 2003: "Iraq: Experts Warn of Radioactive Battlefields" by Katherine Stapp, Inter Press Services.
 * 16 September 2003: "Mystery pneumonia toll may be much higher" by Mark Benjamin, UPI.
 * 2 October 2003: "Outbreak of pneumonia-like symptoms in US troops serving in Iraq", The Herald/UK.
 * 14 December 2003: "Depleted uranium causing high radioactivity levels", Observer/UK.
 * 14 December 2003: "Army shells pose cancer risk in Iraq. Depleted uranium causing high radioactivity levels", by Antony Barnett, Guardian/UK.
 * 9 February 2004, "Warning of Uranium Contamination Risks to NGO Staff, Coalition Forces, Foreign Contract Personnel and Civilians in Iraq", Uranium Medical Research Centre (UMRC).

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