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Afghan Field Trip #2 Report: - Precise Destruction Indiscriminate Effects The following are excerpts of UMRCs proprietary Field Team Report on Afghan Trip #2 (September/October
2002). Readers will gain an inside view of the Field Teams work, the situation in Afghanistan and the conditions
of the people. Personal reports of survivors experiences of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) are presented.
Technical, logistical and UMRC field collection data reports, patient and study subject medical histories and other
related data have been removed from these excerpts to protect the privacy of individuals. All materials are the
copyright of UMRC and cannot be reproduced without the expressed permission of UMRC.
Afghan Field Trip #2 Report: - Precise Destruction Indiscriminate Effects
Introduction
Background discovery of a new type of uranium weapon
Objectives and overview of trip accomplishments
General impressions of the public health
Determining the cause of the effect variables of contamination in Jalalabad area
Bombsite characteristics and blast effects
Eyewitness accounts and immediate effects of the bombing
A survivors personal experience
Introduction

UMRCs field collection and investigations team completed its second Afghan trip October
3, 2002, four months following Field Trip #1. New specimens were collected from Control and
Experimental populations, broadening the original study area around Jalalabad and expanding
the research to the capital city, Kabul. Kabul, with a population of 3.5 million, is the most
densely populated of the areas bombed. It contains the greatest concentration, if not the
highest number, of fixed (immobile), strategic and tactical targets acquired by the suspected
uranium alloyed, precision-destruction weapons used by Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF).
Background the discovery of a new type of uranium weapon
Mass spectrometric analysis conducted by the NERC Geoscience Laboratory of the 8
urine specimens taken from selected subjects in the Jalalabad area, Nangarhar Province,
May/June 2002, showed abnormally high concentrations of Uranium. Unlike UMRCs previous
research into radiological and heavy metal contamination of NATO conflict zones, which found
Depleted Uranium (DU) in the urine of Operation Desert Storm soldiers, the Jalalabad subjects
have abnormally high concentrations of Non-depleted Uranium (NU).
The concentrations of Non-depleted Uranium in the Jalalabad community subjects are
400% to 2000% higher than normal populations. This concentration of radioisotopes is not
known to have occurred before in civilian populations.
The results of the analysis of the Jalalabad area specimens rule out contamination by
depleted uranium, enriched uranium and/or uranium recycled from the nuclear reactor waste
stream. The Jalalabad area subjects uranium signature cannot be explained by the any known
geological or other features in the area. These anomalous research findings pose an
unexpected investigative challenge to UMRC and NERC. One of the main objectives of Trip #2
was to investigate the variables that could explain these findings.
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November 2002 Trip #2 objectives and overview of accomplishments
In order to (1) corroborate the anomalous scientific findings in the urine collected in Trip
#1, (2) identify potential causal variables, and (3) determine the scope of the NU
contamination, UMRC and NERC instructed the Field Team to increase the size of the study
population and geographic range of the investigation. The team secured urine specimens from
control populations in Jalalabad. Control subjects were selected from populations that do not
report health problems indicative of internal contamination by uranium but who live and work
within the radius of exposure.
Urine was collected from new experimental populations who were directly exposed to
three precision target bombsites in the capital city, Kabul. Geological samples of water, soil and
silt were taken from the control and experimental populations environs. One set of soil and
water samples was collected in the immediate environs of each urine donor (or donor group or
locality).
General impressions of the public health
The UMRC field team was shocked by the breadth of public health impacts coincident
with the bombing. Without exception, at every bombsite investigated, people are ill. A
significant portion of the civilian population presents symptoms consistent with internal
contamination by Uranium.
The Field Team was careful to question all subjects about the timing of the on-set of
their illnesses, which all reported to be coincident with the actual attacks and which have
persisted without abatement. Some symptoms and physical reactions to the weapons may be
indicative of exposure to chemical or biological weapons.
All experimental subjects, in all locations, present identical symptom profiles and
chronologies. Of the more conspicuous and most often reported symptoms are pain in the
cervical column, upper shoulders and basal area of the skull, lower back/kidney pain, joint and
muscle weakness, sleeping difficulties, headaches, memory problems and
confusion/disorientation.
Those exposed at the time of the bombing report immediate health effects within
minutes to hours of the attacks. Reports include a common profile of flu-type illnesses
throughout entire neighborhoods, beginning within the first few weeks and lasting two or more
months after the bombing. The more seriously ill show progressive symptoms, which have
persisted for 10 to 12 months, up to the present.

Although the field team did not have a generic, medical symptoms profile for the
effects of uranium contamination on foetal development and new-borns, the community
reports -- corroborated by the Teams examination of two infants may indicate that up to
25% of new-borns suffer congenital and post-natal health problems. These infants
musculature is underdeveloped, their heads appear disproportionate to body weight, and they
have unusual complexions and skin problems.
The two infants examined were so lethargic and weak that they did not have the
energy to cry. They appear malnourished although there are sufficient supplies of nutritious
foods available to the mothers. Parents and elders were distraught at the health conditions of
their infant children and communities in general. Detailed medical examinations and public health
assessments are required in these neighbourhoods.
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November 2002 Determining the cause of the effect variables of contamination in Jalalabad area
The results of Field Trip #1 indicated a radiological and heavy metal contamination
problem for Jalalabad area residents. If these results are corroborated by the study of a
broader population, Afghanistan is facing a public health crisis.
Although UMRCs/NERCs analysis of the urine collected in Trip #1 may point to the OEF Alliance
partners use of new and experimental weapons systems in the Afghan theatre, alternative
hypotheses have been suggested to explain the Jalalabad area findings. These are discussed
below in the context of the field information collected by the team:
A geological anomaly: According to geological data, the level of
contamination discovered in the Jalalabad area cannot be explained by any currently known,
geological phenomenon. The retired Chief Engineer of the Marble Factory (sample collection
site), now an independent engineering consultant, stated that uranium ore deposits have been
found in Helmand Province, several hundred kilometres south-west of Jalalabad. These
deposits were reportedly of interest to the Soviet Union during its 12-year military incursion, and
6-year proxy war in Afghanistan, but no known mining or mineral exploitation activities have
been undertaken.
Phosphate, limestone and gypsum mining, secondary manufacturing and local use of these
products: There are no reported phosphate or gypsum mines in the areas inspected, although
there was a report that Afghanistan has a significant supply of gypsum that has been mined
and exported in the past. The study team witnessed heavy truck convoys carrying imported
concrete in bags, implying that there is currently no local concrete production.
There is a major construction project (building of a mosque) using concrete, about 1
kilometer from Jalalabad area. The study area is situated in a major agricultural district where
phosphates may have been used as fertilizers. The community is suffering from its sixth year
of a drought exacerbated by severe destruction of irrigation and electrical systems by the
Soviets. Farming is now reduced to a very low level of non-commercial subsistence and market
gardening.
Local excavation activities: There are many facilities producing sun-baked and artificially-fired
brick, using locally excavated, surface-materials. The digging of wells and karaizes (kah-rays
hand-dug, underground mountain channels feeding wells on the agricultural plains) and annual
channel maintenance takes place in the Jalalabad area. The karaiz is a traditional water mining
and transport system used for thousands of years in villages situated at the base of mountains
high enough to produce snowmelts to restock the watercourses. This type of well is used only
where geological features of the rock and soil are favorable to allow digging and preserve the
integrity of the channels.
The mountains of Afghanistan are peppered with caves excavated in a search for
gemstones and various ores, for food storage, and for defensive fortifications. Soil and water
samples have been taken from the