Portuguese Forces in Kosmet "Uranium Meat"

Portuguese Defense Minister informed NATO HQ in October this year, that he will withdraw his troops from Kosmet . This is the right decision and should have been made earlier, Antonio Pereira says in his editorial in the Lisbon journal "Diario de Noticias".

Pereira criticizes NATO and states that "Portuguese soldiers were sent on missions in the area poisoned with depleted uranium". Portuguese armed forces within NATO have been in Kosmet since August last year and had the operations in dangerous areas, the commentator points out and claims that NATO Secretary-General, George Robertson, was familiar with "the dangers caused by certain dose of radiation that Portuguese units have been exposed to".

Pereira ends his editorial with a question: "If it is hard to persuade the authorized military circles in Washington, Paris, London or Berlin, to send their troops to critical areas in Kosovo, does that mean that the Portuguese are to represent uranium meat?"