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Tsunami
Radiation Sickness Raises Suspicions
Suddenly, thousands of people in several East African
countries and of the Arabian Peninsula have begun to fall sick with what the
United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) says is radiation sickness brought
on by the tsunami.
Men, women, and chilren of all ages are experiencing the
horrible woes of nuclear aftermath, including sudden ear, nose, and mouth
bleeds, internal hemorrhages and other symptoms of radiation sickness, according
to a UNEP report named "After the Tsunami: Rapid Environmental Assessment",
released in March. Hundreds of villages and towns in the Horn of Africa
dependant on well water are now without a source of potable water due to
contamination caused by radioactive material surfacing in water tables.
Widespread cancer now threatens millions more in the region. Radioactive clouds
drifting westward have already been reported.
Foreign news sources, including several major news agencies,
have since covered the ongoing investigation. At the same time, former US
President Bill Clinton is the UN United Nations Special Envoy for Tsunami
Recovery. The US State Department only offered a briefing on a possible nuclear
culprit to a Pakistani newspaper in January of this year.
There has been no US media coverage of tsunami radiation
sickness.
The US has reason to prevent media coverage of
radioactive fallout back home, now that the international community has begun to
suspect foul play by the greatest world power, especially after declassified
military secrets of the US and British militaries are revived. The declassified
reports, offering a detailed chronology of US and Britain 'tsunami bomb'
testing conducted off the coast of New Zealand, were intitially released in
2000.
Five days after the tsunami, Jan Egeland, UN
Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief
Coordinator, emphatically stated his desire "to put a stop to those rumors now"
that the Sumatra-Andaman undersea earthquake was caused by nuclear "tests" in
the Indian Ocean practiced for many years since World War II by world nuclear
powers.
On January 9th, the US State Department then offered its
views on the subject through Todd Leventhal, its Chief of Counter-Misinformation
in a briefing to the Daily Times of Pakistan, saying that its undersea nuclear
tests had never caused any "significant" tsunamis in the region, quoting from a
January 6 fact sheet by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA). In the same document, NOAA admits that "tsunami waves can also be
generated from very large nuclear explosions."
The State Department also
chose to downplay the significance of the quake, citing a January 5th change in
seismic evaluations of the quake, the Daily wrote.
Leventhal reiterated that the quake stemmed from natural
processes "as they have for millions of years."
In the briefing, he did not offer a scientific disclaimer,
turning to ridicule instead to defend his government and failed to admit reason
for suspision since the US and Britain has been testing 'tsunami bombs' in the
area, as cited in the 1945 British mililtary document: the comments amounted to
little more than a play on words and denial of scientific data.
In addition, it is evident
that scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii were
under obvious pressure by the US Department of Defence when they lowered their
calculations of the undersea earthquake from magnitude 9.0 to 8.0, a revision
that has since been overturned. A magnitude 8.0 is only one-tenth as severe as a
magnitude 9.0 earthquake, according to the US Geological Survey. The US
Counter-Misinformation Department has not offered further comment
since.
In February, scientists reevaluated the Sumatra-Andaman
earthquake as being between magnitude 9.1- 9.3, if not more severe.
In May, they also declared
the quake as the longest ever recorded, CNN reported, lasting 10 minutes.
Earthquakes are widely known to last only a few seconds on average.
Many who were at first skeptical of an atomic culprit
began to suggest that the ocean as well as impacted areas be tested to verify
claims of a nuclear explosion, as evidence of an atomic blast is hard to
conceal: radioactive fallout would begin to surface undoubtedly.
Radioactive fallout is now surfacing even in unimpacted
areas, coming into contact with humans by means of water wells and radioactive
clouds. In Yemen, unnamed government sources initially blamed illegal nuclear
dumping in the Red Sea "after the December 26, 2004 tsunami" as responsible for
the presence of radioactivity now washing up in unlikely places.
Now anger is stirred because the US media is refusing to
publicize reports of radiation sickness now widespread and a very serious threat
to the rest of the region, notwithstanding repercussions within the already
fragile global ecology. Many heath workers are referring to the fallout as an
"African Chernobyl."
There can only be one reason why news of such magnitude could
be supressed.
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