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More DU stuff
I recently received the following via e-mail. To me, this seems more than a little implausible. For example, I am not aware of DU being able to cause reproductive effects such as the birth defects noted in the second story here. I am also not aware of any linkage between DU exposure and cancer, particularly not in the short time between the Iraq War and the present.
Best regards,
Andy
P. Andrew Karam, Ph.D., CHP
Research Assistant Professor
Rochester Institute of Technology
Department of Biological Sciences
85 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
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"The Doctors, the Depleted Uranium and the Dying Children"
August 11, 2004
For Immediate Release ...
Contact: Sunny Miller, Traprock Peace Center, 413-773-7427 http://traprockpeace.org
German documentary exposes current radioactive warfare in Iraq.
Website: http://www.traprockpeace.org/depleted_uranium_iraq.html
Veterans, military families, activists and interested individuals can now order an English version of a documentary film produced for German television by Freider Wagner and Valentin Thurn. This stunning new video has just been released by Ochoa-Wagner Produktion in 2004 in Germany and is available through Traprock Peace Center in Deerfield, Massachusetts through the website, www.traprockpeace.org.
"The Doctors, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children" exposes the use and impact of radioactive weapons during the current war against Iraq. The story is told by citizens of many nations and opens with comments by two British veterans, Kenny Duncan and Jenny Moore, describing their exposure to radioactive, so-called 'depleted' uranium (DU), weapons and the congenital abnormalities of their children. Dr. Siegwart-Horst Günther, a former colleague of Albert Schweitzer, and Tedd Weyman of the Uranium Medical Research Center (UMRC) traveled to Iraq, from Germany and Canada respectively, to assess uranium contamination in Iraq.
Weyman led the investigative team that gathered samples for analysis for the UMRC- http://www.umrc.net <http://www.umrc.net/> He discusses startling findings of the 2003 field investigations in Iraq. "The human and environmental samples have been found to contain depleted uranium and abnormally high levels of the artificial transuranic isotope, 236U. ... Viewers will see in the film, evidence of a new class of uranium weapons." These include "bunker defeat" bombs.
As an M.D., Dr. Günther is especially interested in the health effects that can be caused by such contamination. At a hospital in Basra, Dr. Jenan Hassan revealed an on-going health catastrophe--a ten-fold increase in cancers and a twenty-fold increase in congenital deformities. The grisly realities of the cancer ward provide an appropriate alarm that could help to stop the use of these weapons unless it can be shown they will not harm civilians for generations to come.
Dr. Asaf Duracovic, founder of the Uranium Medical Research Centre, and formerly a Colonel in the U.S. Army, says that the Canadian government has wasted a million dollars on tests provided to Canadian veterans, using faulty methodology that looked for uranium in the hair, where uranium will not accumulate.
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http://www.traprockpeace.org/depleted_uranium_iraq.html
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"The Doctors, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children"
...Throughout his travels, the film shows Tedd Weyman regularly noting Geiger-counter readings and taking soil and water samples for laboratory analysis. Weyman visited a bombed television station, areas where tanks shelled buildings and vehicles, city streets and scrap yards where children played on the remains of destroyed vehicles, often forgoing the use of protective gear in order to gather samples without being stopped by authorities. "The Doctors ..." introduces us to Dr. Axel Gerdes a geologist at the Mineralogical Institute at Goethe University at Frankfurt-am-Mien. Gerdes used mass spectrometry on behalf of UMRC to precisely analyze soil samples collected near a refreshment stand in Baghdad. He reports the concentrations of uranium dust found there to be as high as 50-60%. Such concentrations pose a tremendous hazard for inhalation of this radioactive and toxic heavy metal. U236 (a highly radioactive man-made isotope of uranium)was also detected by mass spectromet
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, and was probably used in coalition weapons. The US has acknowledged that traces of U236, plutonium and other transuranics waste products from nuclear reactors and nuclear reprocessing facilities have contaminated American DU munitions. Analysis of urine samples collected from Iraqis showed uranium levels as high as 400 times normal. Dr. Asaf Duracovic, founder of the Uranium Medical Research Center, and formerly a Colonel in the U.S. Army, says that in years past the Canadian government wasted a million dollars on tests provided to Canadian veterans, using faulty methodology that looked for uranium in the hair, where uranium will not accumulate. This video offers a brief chronology of Dr. Günther's life, from his early involvement in East Germany with Hitler's Youth Brigades and his participation in the resistance toward the end of WWII, to his many awards for humanitarian service. Günther speculated that German industrial research from 1973-1996 by MBB, a corporation in B
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aria, on the development of uranium weapons may be one reason that
Günther was the victim of a hit and run accident while walking on a country road. German authorities fined him 3,000 DM for carrying a uranium bullet fragment from Iraq into Germany, even though the German government later claimed that use of these weapons in the Balkans posed no health threat to residents living in contaminated areas. Of 3500 resettled from a contaminated area there, 1112 have developed cancer.
-- A Review by Sunny Miller, Traprock Peace Center, Deerfield, MA 01342 - August 10, 2004
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World Depleted Uranium Centre, WODUC
Prof. Dr. A. Schott, Berlin
British Veteran Kenny Duncan First To Win War Pension Tribunal
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Chromosome test, originated and paid by Prof. A. Schott, Head of WODUC, "helped to sway "(Kenny Duncan's wife) the War Pensions Appeal Tribunal heard in Edinburgh, 2.2.04, that K. Duncan from Scotland has been poisoned by Depleted Uranium (DU) during the 1991 Gulf War. This Decision is a landmark in the struggle of the worldwide 66,000 DU contaminated veterans of the 1991 Gulf War (and the uncounted number of the 2003 Gulf War).
K. Duncan served as tank transporter: Iraqi tanks, destroyed by DU Weapons, fired by British and US forces. So he inhaled the radiological and chemical poisonous DU dust. Uranium is an alpha-emitter. Alpha-radiation is known to make chromosome breaks. The tribunal realized that K. Duncan had been exposed to DU dust during his service in the 1991 Gulf War.
Mandy and Kenny Duncan have three children born after the 1991 war. All three are heavily congenital damaged. The sever health problems require weekly treatment and special school training. Their illnesses are attributable to genetic damage caused by DU.
The statement of NGVF-Association "... it must be noted that these tests had been paid for by the Charity." (Press Release, 3rd February 2004) is not correct.
Details about DU you find in the WODUC-brochure "Fluch und Tragödie des Uran-Missbrauchs", Berlin 2004.
Prof. Dr. A. Schott
Head of WODUC
Tel. +49 30 823 45 45
Fax: +49 30 831 11 17
E-Mail: albrecht_schott@arcor.de
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