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SNIPPET: "During a meeting with Mauritanian President Muhammad Ould Abdelaziz, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said that the elimination of Israel was a certainty, and that accomplishing this was up to the Islamic countries." SNIPPET: "It should be noted that Mauritania has uranium mines."

A small sample of Afghan civilians have shown "astonishing" levels of uranium in their urine, an independent scientist says. Critics suspect new weapons were used in Afghanistan He said they had the same symptoms as some veterans of the 1991 Gulf war. But he found no trace of the depleted uranium (DU) some scientists believe is implicated in Gulf War syndrome. Other researchers suggest new types of radioactive weapons may have been used in Afghanistan. The scientist is Dr Asaf Durakovic, of the Uranium Medical Research Center (UMRC) based in Washington DC. Dr Durakovic, a former US army colonel who...

  Depleted uranium in Afghanistan: America's warheads of slow death The US escalated in the Afghanistan war its DU warhead tests, started in Kosovo in 1999, says Robert James Parsons - and the United Nations is mute witness to the horror "The immediate concern for medical professionals and employees of aid organisations remains the threat of extensive depleted uranium (DU) contamination in Afghanistan." This is one of the conclusions of a 130-page report, Mystery Metal Nightmare in Afghanistan? (1), by Dai Williams, an independent researcher and occupational psychologist. It is the result of more than a year of research...

Moscow, Feb 12 - Russian Deputy Atomic Energy Minister Valery Govorukhin here on Tuesday stressed that Moscow has rejected Tehran's repeated requests to develop uranium deposits, stressing that Iran has no capabilities to create its own uranium fuel cycle, IRNA said. The Itar-Tass quoted Govorukhin as saying that Moscow has repeatedly told Tehran that Russia's cooperation with Iran in the area of nuclear activities is confined to the construction of one nuclear power unit in Bushehr, nuclear fuel supplies throughout the unit's life cycle and recycling of spent fuel in Russia." President Mohammad Khatami on Sunday announced that Iran had...