Cathy Garger has immediately jumped upon the fact that Ms
Prentice was in a "friendly fire" incident in the Balkans
when she notes that Eve-Ann Prentice died of cancer at age
55. Naturally, this death could not have been caused by
anything else but depleted uranium.

Ms Garger is known for poorly researching subjects and this
is a classic example that is readily proveable. I put
"Eve-Ann Prentice" in as the key word and got references to
a number of articles about this distinguished woman
journalist and war correspondent. One of those was about
her being out of the hospital after the "friendly fire"
incident, which was described as a bombing, not as a
strafing, so one would really wonder if DU were even
involved in this attack on Eve-Ann Prentice's vehicle and
further research would be necessary. The clincher however
is part of the interview with her former husband who
relates that

Former husband Pat Prentice: The missile struck near the
car Mr Prentice, who was married to her for 23 years, said
she has been fighting cancer since she was 17 years old.
Her last operation to beat breast cancer was 18 months ago,
he said.

"We are still trying to get through to the hospital," he
said. "We keep getting told she wasn't badly injured, but
we just don't know."

We now know, unlike Cathy Garger, who really is not much in
the know, but floods the net anyway with her ramblings
about DU that Ms Prentice died of cancer at 55 and had been
fighting cancer for 38 years, well before she was a
survivor of a "friendly fire" incident as a war
correspondent in the Balkans.

Roger Helbig
unlike Cathy, I research before I put on the web --

Monday, May 31, 1999 Published at 17:56 GMT 18:56 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/356837.stm
UK Times reporter leaves hospital

Here is what Cathy Garger said in message to her
AmericanDUST group along with Fight These Wars and DU-Watch

"Each and every time I read about a journalist who ventures
into a war zone I think, What? Is s/he stupid? Is his/her
life of so little value that s/he was willing to die for
the cause of reporting about war? Or,is s/he simply
ignorant of the scientifically substantiated effects
about Uranium oxide aerosol?

This particular murder had Bill Clinton's explicit stamp of
approval. Clinton and Gore were quite good-to-go with
NATO's use of DU. I wonder how many so-called
"progressives" are even aware of this?

Cathy Garger"

Next time you see one of Garger's many sermon-like articles
about the horrors of depleted uranium, remember this time
when she immediately jumped to conclusions and then wonder
if she had jumped to conclusions yet again in her latest
"sermon". Along with concluding that Ms Prentice died due
to the DU exposure, which in itself has not been confirmed,
Garger makes the unsubstantiated claim "scientifically
substantiated effects of DU aerosols". Garger and Bob
Nichols push what they call "deadly Uranium Gas" - DU
aerosol; both fail to realize that uranium solidies from a
gas at an extremely high temperature and except for the
"tank turret" where the DU penetrator strikes, no one is
exposed to "aerosol" because it solidifies and falls to the
ground (or out of the air .. since the bottom of the turret
is metal, not the ground) immediately after impact.