Iraq’s contaminated military scrap metal trade places civilians at risk of exposure to depleted uranium.
Laid to Waste follows on from In a State of Uncertainty and adds more information on the failure to manage Iraq’s DU contamination adequately. For the first time the report reveals US strike coordinates, finding that DU was used against unmounted troops and soft targets, in breach of US legal guidelines. The report also considers international standards for radioactive waste management and how these standards were not applied to DU contamination in Iraq.
