Monday
Dec112006
Don't drink the water
Issandr El Amrani
The US Embassy in Cairo has apparently released the following advisory:
Periodic routine testing by a U.S. military laboratory of "Safi" brand bottled water showed results of elevated radiological readings for alpha and beta particles. Laboratory protocol now requires specific follow-on testing. Although initial testing levels fell within the safety margins of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. military authorities of the Central Command suspended the sale of Safi water through the retail facilities it operates. The American Embassy commissary, which is used by American diplomats and military personnel assigned to Egypt, suspended sales of Safi pending further test results. Based on the EPA standards, we do not believe that the consumption of Safi water has posed a risk. We will report the results of further testing as soon as they are available.Isn't Safi bottled by the military?
Reader Comments (13)
"elevated radiological readings" - Polonium? Could this be the missing link?
Yes, the Egyptian military bottle Safi. Just one of its many business enterprises.
Sounds like it's time to reinvistigate the supposedly long dormant Egyptian nuclear bomb program. Ah ha! The military's water factories have given them away!!
I imagine another link could be DU weapons used in the vicinity. Radioactive dust has been reported as far as London.
I don't think DU weapons are that radioactive or could travel that far - I thought their problem is that they are chemically toxic, not so much that they are radioactive.
Why were US military labs testing bottled water in Egypt in the first place?
because they were buying it for their soldiers?
Indeed, CENTCOMM buys Safi for U.S. military forces in the region. There may also be another reason why the U.S. military was testing the water... the US Navy bascially runs Egypt's public health service.
The Egyptian military and the secret services have in fact a high market share in hospitals, etc. Is this where the US Navy comes in, in your opinion, or what do you mean?
This should give you a fairly good picture.....
http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/Training/namru-3.asp
According to Abu T's link, the Americans are engaging in "vector surveillance (systematics and virus isolations) ... in conjunction with disease surveillance."
If anyone has a 1-800 number for them, please post it: there's this guy working at the fuhl cart across from my place that I want to rat out.
Fascinating, I'd always heard about the NAMRU people... I'm not sure if it means the Navy "bascially runs Egypt’s public health service", sounds like more of a center for disease control...
egyptian military...
I Googled for something completely different, but found your page...and have to say thanks. nice read....