1.) Miraki's reply to Andreas Anderson's email
Dear Sir: 

Please forward this to [your] subscribers including this individual Andreas!

Let me start with an interesting comment I hear from TV
reporters, when they report about the casualty of Afghan
civilians, they say " There were claims of 200 civilians killed 
but could not be confirmed visually" As if the Afghans would
desecrate their dead spread all over to convince and
please the so-called experts/journalists.
This is where the individual Andreas fits:

I do not rely on only two sources--namely dai williams and durakovic. I have relatives civilians as well as tribesmen 
combatants killed by the US-UK bombs. Recently several of 
my relatives have given birth to children with unmistaken signs
of DU deformities. One of the babies had no head and one
arm, another had a mass of tissue developed protruding from 
inside the mouth--baby was dead--, the other, had elongated 
body with large head and puffed up stomach. These were my 
relatives, there were other such horrific cases of congenital deformities and health problems only more than a year after
the bombing. In this village alone, 23 babies had such horrific 
deformities. Now tell me Mr/Ms expert Andreas--What is the 
probability of having 23 babies from the same small village, 
where no such incident of deformities ever reported, but 
suddenly in year time, one finds 23 babies deformed.

This should not take a rocket scientist to figure out!!!

Moreover, many Taliban fighters from tribes in southeastern, southern and  southwestern Afghanistan have lost their lives 
after returning to their native villages. None of these men had 
any physical injuries. Most would vomit blood, while others, 
especially in southeastern Afghanistan have started
to lose from all over the bodies, passing blood through stool, 
vomiting blood, and severe pain in the back and kidney areas. 
Meanwhile, some young men returning from Shah-e-kot and 
Tora Bora had severe bleeding with their coughs, in addition to 
the other symptoms I pointed out, in eastern and southeastern 
Afghanistan.

And yes, there were bodies of large number of Taliban soldiers that had their rifles  melted in
their hands--this information I collected from 15 different sources--who had seen these bodies with
their own eyes!!! 

As to the DU per se, the urine samples of the victims in Jalal-Abad did not resemble

Durakovic and his team took soil sample from Kabul. They used electron microscope to establish
difference between natural uranium and uranium used in Afghanistan and were able to uncover the
presence of small ceramic particles produced by the high temperatures created on impact. So contrary
to the claims of Dan Fahey, it has been positively established through the presence of ceramic
particles that uranium based arsenals have been used. 

Meanwhile, Durakovic's team found: 

        "uranium found is not consistent with the "dirty bomb" scenario proposed by the US (in which stores of radioactive materials might explain the findings),   nor is it connected to DU, or an enriched uranium-type dust that has been found 
in Iraq and Kosova."

Also:

        "The only conclusion is that the allied forces are now possibly using   milled  uranium ore in their warheads to 
maximize the effectiveness and strength of their weapons"
 

Moreover, the issue of newly born in southern, southwestern, eastern and southeastern Afghanistan exhibit deformities 
similar to those exhibited in Iraq. According to Tehran Times, 
November 09, 2002: 

        "...in recent days there have been numerous reports about 
the birth of  many disabled and deformed children in 
Afghanistan. A large number of   health specialists in 
Afghanistan as well as international observers, including one of 
the officials of a local hospital, regard the increased 
number of birth defects in Afghanistan to be the direct result of 
the U.S.  dropping DU bombs on Afghanistan." 

Durakovic said the following in October, 2002 to Al-Jazeera Television network:
 

"...the amount of DU/uranium used in Afghanistan far exceeded that of past conflicts. He also warned that if the scale of the
attacks in Afghanistan was matched or exceeded in a 
forthcoming war in Iraq, then the consequences would be of 
appalling proportions for both civilians and military forces
alike."

Dr. Marc Herald, work also points to this direction. He points out that the munitions used in Afghanistan are:

        25 and 30 mm shells, bunker busting bombs and missiles [GBU 28, 15, 24, 27, 31 and 37, AGM-130C]

Delivery agents of munitions include:

F-15E, B-2, A-10, AC-130 Spooky, and Apache helicopter [AH-64], GBM- 109 Tomahawk and AGM-86D CALCM cruise missiles. 

According to his rough estimates, dating back to November 13, 2002, 500-600 tones of depleted uranium used in Afghanistan. After November of last year, many bombing raids by larger planes, F-series, A-10s and Helicopters increased that number further. 

Incidentally, Professor Durakovic also made similar claims:

"...U.S. forces used more DU weapons in Afghanistan than they used in the Persian Gulf War and the Balkans wars" 

Let me conclude that the incidents in Afghanistan are not 
unique, similar symptoms and deformities have been reported 
in Balkans and Iraq. Thus, based on those findings, a calculated judgement would be valid. Nonetheless, the team that went to Afghanistan have uncovered ceramic particles  after viewing the soil sample under electron microscope. This is the physical evidence to prove in addition to urine samples etc. More than 35 samples of munitions, soil, etc are still sitting in the labs
waiting for funding to cover the cost of analysis!!!!!!

Andreas, read my article carefully, and wrote real fast and did not include these facts that I pointed out. You yourself claim that you do not know where the uranium comes from--the teams that went to Afghanistan have ruled out the natural deposits, industrial sources and Al-Qaida sources. In fact, the Al-Qaida and dirty bomb notion is more propaganda than fact. Furthermore, thus far, there has not been any report either from within Afghanistan or outside Afghanistan of Russians using uranium based weapons.

This leaves, the US-UK bombing as the only source of DU and/or milled uranium ore in their hard target weapons. 
Andreas: BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO MAKE ANY SUCH HASTY COMMENTS--THERE IS A HUMAN FACTOR INVOLVED
HERE!!!!! IN FACT, THE BEHAVIOR OF US-UK IN SUCH CRIMINAL MANNER ONLY FURTHER JUSTIFIES TERRORISM IN
THE EYES OF THOSE THAT HATE THESE COUNTRIES AND THEIR ALLIES.

Sincerely,

Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, MA, PhD
Socioeconomic Development