Iraqis Suffer From Radiation Symptoms

AP via Newsday ^ | June 22, 2003, 9:10 AM EDT | SABAH JERGES

[coloradan]

Signs might have been appropriate:

Please do not loot the nuclear facility!

[donmeaker]

Didn't the Qu'ran teach that crime doesn't pay?

7-11 ought to look into ways of contaminating money so that thieves and robbers suffer radioactive poisoning.... Only the large bills, so that customers don't get damaged when you make change....

[IoCaster]

There's a possibility that there were some signs posted. It's a good bet that these people may have been illiterate. It's unfortunate that those poor dumb Iraqis just didn't know any better.

[Wonder Warthog]

More speculative bull**** about "radiation poisoning". NONE of the symptoms described in the article match any form of radiation poisoning I know of. The radiation level in raw uranium (even the low-level enriched stuff). Any "poisoning" is more likely a result of HEAVY-METAL poisoning than radiation effect(s).

[MichaelDammit]

Egggzactly.....someone from CNN must have told them they were supposed to be suffering from radiation poisoning...just because they were in close proximity to something NUCLEAR....facts be damned.

[yoe]

Thank you for the head's up - this is more like the "looting of the museum" propaganda, lazy reporting and sensationalizing at its worst! This sort of reporting is meant to make the Iraqi looter the victim and placing the blame on the conquers again.

[JasonC]

A boy - singular - with a bloody nose. Gee, must be new-clee-er raid-ee-ay-shun. Uh huh, sure. "If you surveyed" you might find more cases, a doctor (with a party card?) says. Meaning, he hasn't. Nobody has.

[Bogey78O]

That was uncalled for.

[cibco]

That you Saddam???

[joanil]

Soooo,
Saddamski was never a saint after all, even though the euro ween's tried to make him one.
Many terrible little 'secrets' will now become unveiled now that Saddamski and sons are on the run.
Just you wait........
The best is yet to come.
'W' was right.

I placed my faith in the 'W' at the very start.

[DannyTN]

Why did anyone let a country like Iraq that is setting on as "sea of oil", build a nuclear reactor. They don't need the energy. The only possible use would be to increase their technological knowledge in hopes of building a bomb.

[Mihalis]

If our troops are safe I couldn't care less about anybody else.

[Brad’s Gramma]

You stupid american bastards.

REAL nice! I just "love" all these new posters lately with their agendas. And that, everyone else, was said dripping with sarcasm.

[cibco]

BTTT

[Brad’s Gramma]

I'll be watching that dude. Man oh life.

[Poohbah]

More speculative bull**** about "radiation poisoning". NONE of the symptoms described in the article match any form of radiation poisoning I know of. The radiation level in raw uranium (even the low-level enriched stuff). Any "poisoning" is more likely a result of HEAVY-METAL poisoning than radiation effect(s).

First off, bloody diarrhea IS a symptom of radiation poisoning.

Second, if they stole enough enriched material, they could generate a criticality. My brother used to work in a nuclear fuel processing plant, and damn near had a heart attack when he saw some workers using fuel slugs as poker chips--one guy was winning bigtime, and he made a criticality big enough to give him his industry lifetime dose several times over.

[jwalsh07]

First off, bloody diarrhea IS a symptom of radiation poisoning.

Without a doubt.

[varon]

........and other symptoms of radiation poisoning, doctors said Saturday.

If that includes glowing in the dark then perhaps they can be posted on street corners at night until the power generating stations come online ;-)