Ifor, I am not disagreeing with anything you have said, except that it is simply not factual that there have been DU shells fired from artillery in Iraq. As I said, they have been fired from tanks and from helos. There are no DU artillery munitions. Artillery is cannon and howitzers. BTW, the short and long range consequences of DU exposure, other than fragments lodged in the body, are still a subject of study and there have been no final conclusions.