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By Alex Kirby
BBC News Online environment correspondent |
A small sample of Afghan civilians have shown "astonishing" levels of uranium in their urine, an independent scientist says.
| Date: | Thursday May 22, @07:16AM |
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| Topic: | Bush |
| from the news.bbc.co.uk dept. | |
By Alex Kirby
BBC News Online environment correspondent
A small sample of Afghan civilians have shown "astonishing" levels of uranium in their urine, an independent scientist says.
He said they had the same symptoms as some veterans of the 1991 Gulf war.
Critics suspect new weapons were used in Afghanistan
But he found no trace of the depleted uranium (DU) some scientists believe is implicated in Gulf War syndrome.
Other researchers suggest new types of radioactive weapons may have been used in Afghanistan.
The scientist is Dr Asaf Durakovic, of the Uranium Medical Research Center (UMRC) based in Washington DC.
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