U.N. CLEARS ISRAEL OF LEBANON URANIUM LIBEL

Panel Finds "No Evidence" Israel Used Depleted Uranium in 2006 Lebanon War - Nour Samaha (Daily Star-Lebanon)
A panel of experts from the UN, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and other international agencies announced a unanimous determination Monday that no depleted-uranium weapons had been used by Israel in the summer 2006 war in Lebanon.

Senior UN Environmental Program scientist Mario Burger conducted intensive research on 90 soil samples from 71 distinct sites in South Lebanon at the Spiez government laboratory in Switzerland, and concluded, "No use of weapons containing depleted uranium" was found.

An above-normal level of concentration of uranium found in Khiam was consistent with levels naturally occurring in soil in the area, Burger said. "The uranium present at the site was never technically processed and can therefore not be tied to a missile or bomb," he said, contradicting claims made in December by Chris Busby, secretary for the European Committee on Radiation Risk.