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Depleted uranium: UNEP warned about environmental damages in Iraq

Baghdad, Iraq - British troops provided data related to the use of such mineral in their bullets, indicating some two tons spread over such territory

The UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) unveiled recently that, within its monitoring activities for the Iraqi environmental situation, only the British forces delivered documents related to the deployment of depleted uranium during the latest military operations in Iraq. The USA would not have provided sufficient data regarding such matter, UNEP’s representatives would have underlined, but i...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 120428
Rome, Italy, 05/13/2005 17:20
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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