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RE: Background information
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Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:53:16 -0500
From: "Monica Oosting" <monica.oosting@zircatec.ca>
Subject: Background information
Good Day Everyone
I was wondering if anyone has heard of Dr. Asaf Durakovic. Tomorrow night
he is giving a presentation entitled "Uranium & Health" in Port Hope,
Ontario. We have a few very active anti-nuclear groups in the area and I am
not sure if he was invited by one of those groups. I am just now doing a
quick google search to try and determine if this presentation will be anti
focused or a fair representation. If anyone has any previous experience
with him, please provide a quick overview of what I may expect.
BTW some of you may be interested by the website of one of our anti groups.
They reference an interview with Robert Kennedy Jr. where he states: "Port
Hope has been called upon to make itself the national sacrifice zone for
Canada. The question Canadians have to ask themselves is how much are we
going to allow the people of Port Hope to bargain about the destiny of their
community."
Check it out if you get a chance.
ph-fare.com
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Monica
monica.oosting@zircatec.ca
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All,
I have the misfortune of being a former co-worker of Asaf Durakovic, and I
have to admit that he is something of an embarrassment to all. I knew him
as a researcher at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute in the
late 1980's. While he has supposedly excellent credentials, he has always
been a rather pathetic person. He was forced out the the US Army shortly
before I retired in 1990. I guess the best I can say is that he plays 'very
loose and fast with the truth' and I think that he has been forced to his
current state due to a lack of ability to do meaningful research or work on
patients.
He was employed by ORISE for a short time in the 1990's and Robert Ricks can
give you more details on him. Asaf was finally forced out of that position
and left for the VA after that. I think he was similarly forced out of the
VA after that, hence his current situation.
Asaf is a former refugee from Yugoslavia and claims to have made a
spectacular effort to escape that regime in the late 1970's or early 1980's.
However, since that time, I have come to wonder if the country didn't simply
allow him to leave and raise the general research level in that country.
If anyone would like to talk about him further, please feel free to contact
me off line.
Bruce Vesper
LCDR, USN, Retired
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Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 21:50:49 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Franz_Sch=F6nhofer?= <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>
Subject: AW: Background information
Monica,
I do not know the person, but I might guess something from his name:
"Durakovic" is a typical slavic name as used most probably in Serbia,
Montenegro, Bosnia or in Kosovo. His first name "Asaf" seems to me to be
a muslim name, so that I would cautiously trace his roots to Kosovo or
Montenegro. On the other hand he might be as well an American citizen,
child of immigrants.
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I paused for about two minutes and had a look on Google myself - and
what I found within those two minutes including opening and closing
Google is dozens of hits for this name, all in connection with clearly
anti-DU-issues. (Anti-DU is not necessarily the same as anti-nuclear.)
Since the presentation is entitled "Uranium and Health" you can imagine
what to expect, but you could of course visit the sites mentioned in
Google and draw your conclusions. I just wonder, how long it takes you
to "perform a quick google search"!!!
Regarding your remark on "what Robert Kennedy Jr. said": Whatever this
person said or Putin or Chirac or Schroeder or Mao Tse Tung or Clinton
or or or or: It is politics, should never be taken serious and the
"opinion" of politicians change within a second if they think it is
favourable for them and they do not have the slightest problem to
explain suasively why now everything is different. We even had about
twenty years ago a case in Austria when a prominent anti-nuclear member
of parliament voted for the opening of the moth-balled nuclear power
plant at Zwentendorf, simply because his party was advocating it.
Best regards,
Franz Schoenhofer
PhD, MR iR
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Vienna
AUSTRIA
phone -43-0699-1168-1319
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