Depleted uranium (DU) is causing long term damage to entire populations and a case has been made it's being used as a genocide agent.  This travel advisory suggests you do not visit within a 1,000 miles radius of Yugoslavia, Iraq, or Afghanistan.  You also should not share any bodily fluids with anyone who has been to these regions.

There are also several US and British test and live fire areas that should be avoided as well.  The safety radius of these sites should be significantly smaller.  Some probable areas are:  Grafenburg, Germany;  Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, California;  Jefferson Proving Ground, Jefferson, Ripley and Jennings Counties, Indiana;  Sierra Army Depot, Herlong, California;  Pentagon, Washington DC;  World Trade Center in New York

A few other places reported to have DU present:  Kosovo, Serbia;  Vieques Island in Puerto Rico;  Torishima Island near Okinawa, Japan.

The good news, if you can call it that, is that as of July 2005 some states [at least Connecticut and Louisiana so far. -Ed.] have passed legislation giving their returning National Guard members the right to get screening tests for depleted uranium exposure.  There are also existing military regulations that authorize tests for troops who suspect depleted uranium exposure.  Unfortunately the military is [seemingly] doing its best to not perform the tests or delaying them until after they won't be useful.  The normally used urine tests must be done within 30 days of the last exposure for DU to be detectable.  After 30 days the DU has migrated out of the blood stream into the bones and other organs.

If you do come up with depleted uranium or other radiation exposure, there are some methods of detoxifying the body.  We found these two articles which list some of the "over the counter" methods for chelating heavy metals from the body.  [They also can be used for cleaning out the accumulated toxicity of the American fast food diet.  -Ed.]

• How to Detox Your Body of Depleted Uranium Residues, the Effects of Radiation, and Radioactive Contamination
• Immune Augmentation Therapy for Gulf War Syndrome

We leave you with the list of Resolutions, Declarations, and Conventions violated by the USA for using depleted uranium weapons:

• January 2001, European Parliament passes a ban on the use of DU munitions while investigations are carried out into links between DU and cancer.
• August 2002, UN publishes that the use of DU weapons violates among others:
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • UN Charter
  • UN Genocide Convention
  • Convention Against Torture
  • Geneva Conventions of 1949
  • Conventional Weapons Convention of 1980
  • Hague Convention of 1899
  • Hague Convention of 1907

Be safe out there,

M.J. Taylor
from Reason to Freedom