The Dutch missiles have been brought into our country by ship. Their transportation was secret. The costs of this transportation are also secret. The Minister of National Defense says this time it is about a NATO secret.
Therefore, the Romanian taxpayer has once more paid for something that he believes as being the cost of the integration, but he didnât even know it. There is no use in looking on the other side of the barracksâ fence, because things are set in the "file" of the cancerous missiles: they arrived in Romania. "The measures taken by the Romtehnica Corporation for choosing the transporter of the Hawk missiles had in mind to abide by the national and international requirements for assuring the security and the confidentiality of such equipmentsâ transportation", MND (the Ministry of National Defense) shows. An international auction has been organized for this transport and Romtrans was the highest bidder. The respective company has started to bring the Dutch equipments and they planned only one transport, by ship, in the final month. The governmental authorities refuse stating the sum paid for the transportation of these missiles, which is part of the stateâs budget, "because the contract signed with the transporter is secret (NATO confidential), the details regarding it cannot be made public". THE DEAL. We remind that, also confidentially, at the end of last year, between the two electoral polls, the Government has purchased a missile system from the Dutch junkyard, for less than 23.5 million euros. This deal is actually the hook for another one of at least half a billion euros. We showed in several articles that in the countries in which this system was used, like Holland, hundreds of soldiers that had used them got cancer. Now, in the following fragment, we will show the interview with Lex Cheizoo, former mechanic on HAWK equipments between 1966 and 1982 at the military base in Bloomberg - Germany, who is in hospital with cancer. The interview was made using the e-mail, because Lex cannot speak anymore. This is one of the effects of the disease. "I am 59 years old and I hope to live as much years as possible together with my wife, my children and our grandchildren", is the only thing that Lex Cheizoo wants now."The Hawk Improvements Did not Target the Radiation Emission"
Jurnalul National: How much time did you spend every day in contact with the systems?
Lex Cheizoo: I used to work for 8 hours every day in direct contact with the systems. I worked with the improved HAWK systems only on the battery control system.
Which are the safety rules that you had to obey?
I obeyed the safety rules. I have never worn any special equipment.
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What did your superiors tell you about the system?
The superiors show the safety rules.
As far as we understood, one of the safety rules is keeping of distance of 74 meters. But, is it possible to keep such a distance when the system is working?
You have to be sure there are no radiations and, therefore, the radar is in stand-by.
Which were the first symptoms of the disease?
The first symptoms appeared three months after I left the Air Forces in 2001. I couldnât eat or drink and I was very tired.
What was the doctorsâ diagnose?
The doctors discovered the throat cancer. I have been irradiated for 34 times in 2 months while in the hospital. At present, I am under surveillance in the hospital.
The Dutch Minister of Defense told us the systems had been improved and they donât emit radiations anymore.
The improvements didnât target the radiation emissions. The most dangerous equipments in the case of the modernized HAWK systems are the high power illumination radar and the continuous-waves radar.
Translated by SORIN BALAN