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To: John Hunt who wrote (31647)	4/13/1999 7:55:00 AM
From: Bobby Yellin	Respond to of 116789

sick joke but how much has it saved in year2000 remediation? glass half full? on the sad side..all those young children going through this now will keep this thing going when and if they become adults..

To: John Hunt who wrote (31647)	4/13/1999 8:21:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Respond to of 116789

Serbs cross into north Albania, take border post << Serb soldiers have crossed into the remote Tropoje district of northern Albania and heavy shelling could be heard, an OSCE official told Reuters in the nearby town of Bajram Curri. ''The Serbs have crossed into Albania,'' said OSCE field officer Pier Gonggrip. Yugoslav infantry had occupied the Kamenica border post, the OSCE in the Albanian capital Tirana said, citing Albanian border police. >> biz.yahoo.com Ratcheting up again.

To: John Hunt who wrote (31647)	4/13/1999 8:23:00 AM
From: Enigma	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116789

John: Is this a reliable source IYO? What is his history/agenda. You say you like to look at both sides of an issue but rarely do you post both sides. I say this in this case because what this man is alleging would cause public opinion to turn against the war immediately if true. Somehow it seems like extreme propaganda - not that there aren't civilian casualties and we do know that industrial plants are being hit - but schools and hospitals? There is always the tendency to want to believe the worst of ourselves. dd

To: John Hunt who wrote (31647)	4/13/1999 11:30:00 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116789

John : Looks like I was right. NATO is in Yugoslavia to help the people --- my ass! "The Use of Weapons banned by International Convention The NATO bombings have also used weapons banned by international conventions. Amply documented by scientific reports, the cruise missiles utilize depleted uranium "highly toxic to humans, both chemically as a heavy metal and radiologically as an alpha particle emitter". Since the gulf War, depleted uranium (DU) has been a substitute for lead in bullets and missiles. According to scientists "it is most likely a major contributor to the Gulf War Syndrome experienced both by the veterans and the people of Iraq". According radiobiologist Dr. Rosalie Bertell, president of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health: "When used in war, the depleted uranium (DU) bursts into flame [and] releasing a deadly radioactive aerosol of uranium, unlike anything seen before. It can kill everyone in a tank. This ceramic aerosol is much lighter than uranium dust. It can travel in air tens of kilometres from the point of release, or be stirred up in dust and resuspended in air with wind or human movement. It is very small and can be breathed in by anyone: a baby, pregnant woman, the elderly, the sick. This radioactive ceramic can stay deep in the lungs for years, irradiating the tissue with powerful alpha particles within about a 30 micron sphere, causing emphysema and/or fibrosis. The ceramic can also be swallowed and do damage to the gastro-intestinal tract. In time, it penetrates the lung tissue and enters into the blood stream. ...It can also initiate cancer or promote cancers which have been initiated by other cancinogens". According to Paul Sullivan, executive director of the National Gulf War Resource Center: "In Yugoslavia, it's expected that depleted uranium will be fired in agricultural areas, places where livestock graze and where crops are grown, thereby introducing the spectre of possible contamination of the food chain."