by David Jones
Various
researchers and activists inspired by the work of Dr. Karl Ziegler
Morgan claim that 9/11 sicknesses are related to environmental
radiation contamination.
The International 9/11 Citizen's War Crimes Tribunal documents that
Leuren Moret reported for example, "elevated radiation readings
downwind from the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001.
Two days after 9/11, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
confirmed that the Pentagon crash site rubble was radioactive and that
the probable contaminant was Depleted Uranium (DU)."
"The entry and exit holes through the Pentagon
crash site were the signature of a kinetic energy penetrator, such as a
Cruise missile, and the term "punch-out hole" was written by crash site
investigators over the exit hole. This is a military term used for
kinetic energy penetrators. Major Doug Rokke, former Director of the
Gulf War I DU Cleanup Team, reported that an email from the Pentagon 30
minutes after impact confirmed a nuclear device hit the Pentagon on
9/11."
In April, 2007, Leuren Moret exposed the U.S. military's illegal use of
Depleted Uranium (DU) weapons in target practice in Hawaii, in
violation of U.S. military environmental regulations. The elevated
radiation readings she recorded were carried by ABC-TV news in Hawaii
on April 29 and 30, 2007.
The demonstrated public health effects of
Depleted Uranium (DU) weapons include: Diabetes; Cancer; Birth defects;
Chronic diseases caused by neurological and neuromuscular radiation
damage; Mitochondrial diseases (Chronic fatigue syndrome, Lou Gehrig's,
Parkinson's and Alzheimer's; Heart and brain disorders); Global DNA
damage in men's sperm; Infertility in women; Learning disabilities such
as autism, and dyslexia; Mental Illness; Infant mortality and low birth
weights; Increase in death rates and decrease in birth rates.
Around the Pentagon there were reports of high radiation levels after 9-11 American Free Press
has documentation that radiation levels in Alexandria and Leesburg,
Va., were much higher than usual on 9-11 and persisted for at least one
week afterward.
In Alexandria, seven miles south of the burning
Pentagon, a doctor with years of experience working with radiation
issues found elevated radiation levels on 9-11 of 35 to 52 counts per
minute (cpm) using a "Radalert 50" Geiger counter.
One week after 9-11, in Leesburg, 33 miles northwest of the Pentagon,
soil readings taken in a residential neighbourhood showed even higher
readings of 75 to 83 cpm.
"That's pretty high," Cindy Folkers of the Washing ton-based Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) told AFP.
Folkers said 7 to 12 cpm is normal background radiation inside the NIRS
building, and that outdoor readings of between 12 to 20 cpm are normal
in Chevy Chase, Md., outside Washington.
The Radalert 50, Folkers said, is primarily a
gamma ray detector and "detects only 7 percent of the beta radiation
and even less of the alpha." This suggests that actual radiation levels
may have been significantly higher than those detected by the doctor's
Geiger counter.
"The question is, why?" Folkers said.
If the radiation came from the explosion and fire at the Pentagon, it
most likely did not come from a Boeing 757, which is the type of
aircraft that allegedly hit the building.
"Boeing has never used DU on either the 757 or the 767, and we no
longer use it on the 747," Leslie M. Nichols, product spokesperson for
Boeing's 767, told AFP. "Sometime ago, we switched to tungsten, because
it is heavier, more readily available and more cost effective."
The cost effectiveness argument is debatable. A
waste product of U.S. nuclear weapons and energy facilities, DU is
reportedly provided by the Department of Energy to national and foreign
armament companies free of charge.
DU is used in a wide variety of missiles in the
U.S. arsenal as an armor penetrator. It is also used in the
bunker-buster bombs and cruise missiles. Because no photographic
evidence of a Boeing 757 hitting the Pentagon is available to the
public, 9-11 skeptics and independent researchers claim something else,
such as a missile, struck the Pentagon.
A white flash, not unlike those seen in videos of the planes as they
struck the twin towers, occurs when a DU penetrator hits a target.
Workers and FEMA officials at the Pentagon were seen wearing special
protective outfits and respirators. FEMA photos show the workers going
through decontamination procedures. Bellinger told AFP that the U.S.
Department of Defense was responsible for on-site safety procedures at
the Pentagon.
In New York, however, considerably less
attention was paid to the health risks the burning rubble posed to
workers at the WTC site. A recent screening done by Mount Sinai
Hospital found that nearly three-quarters of the 1,138 first responders
had experienced respiratory problems while working at Ground Zero, and
half had respiratory ailments that persisted for an average of eight
months afterward.
"We were dumfounded by how many people were
sick, and how sick they were, and how sick they still are," said Robin
Herbert, co-director of the program.
"If high radioactive levels were found near the Pentagon (and they
were) it certainly would not hurt to similarly test for the presence of
radiation sickness in those who spent time around Ground Zero, as
well," says Cathy Garger.
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