Well, I haven't quoted Raed in a while...

I feel like I haven't spoken for myself in a while, too, abusing the trusty old "blockquote" tag. That will be changing shortly. In the meantime, Raed, my favorite Iraqi blogger, has a few things to say about Depleted Uranium and Radiation.

More than 40% of the American soldiers are affected by the radiations of the Depleted Uranium used by the American Forces during this war.

Well? I did check many sites personally, using a Geiger Counter, and found that the radiation level is like 2000% to 13000% more than the regular background reading. I saw hundreds of Iraqi tanks destroyed by DU bullets, in the middle of the residential areas? I mean? Saddam is a criminal, he put those tanks between civilian houses, but Bush is a criminal too? he used radio active weapons to destroy them.

Iraqis were cutting parts of the radio active tanks, and melting them to be re-used as steel I beams for constructing houses. I met dozens of Iraqis working in a huge area near the southern gate of Baghdad where the American forces collected some hundreds of destroyed Iraqi tanks? those Iraqis didn?t know the meaning or Uranium, or the meaning of radiation? they didn?t have other jobs and they had official papers from the CPA, as an approval for cutting and transferring the parts of the Iraqi weapons.

In some places like Nasryya, Basra, Amara and Kut, destroyed Iraqi tanks were not moved from their locations, I tried ? in cooperation with dozens of other volunteers -to start some small awareness campaigns in those cities, I hope they reduced the number of children playing inside the tanks.