The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium and the Dying Children

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" The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium and the Dying Children "

 

May 1, 2005

 

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

 

" The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children " , an

award winning (ÖKOMEDIA 2004) documentary film produced for German

television by Freider Wagner and Valentin Thurn, and released by

Ochoa-Wagner Produktion in 2004 in Germany, 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

teh Uranium Medical Research Center (UMRC) traveled to Iraq, from

Germany and Canada respectively, to assess uranium contamination in

Iraq. (photo of Dr. Siegwart-Horst Günther with Iraqi mother and

children © 2004 Telepool.)

 

Weyman led the investigative team that gathered samples for

analysis for the UMRC– 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. 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.

 

[Note: the English title of this film has sometimes been given as

" The Doctors... " - the singular is correct.]

 

For more on this film's European award, see

http://www.oekomedia-institut.de/

 

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For an exclusive article about this film, written by Tedd

Weyman, leader of Uranium Medical Research Centre investigative team

that gathered samples for analysis, go to

http://www.traprockpeace.org/tedd_weyman_10aug04.html " The human and

environmental samples have been found to contain Depleted Uranium and

abnormally high levels of the artificial transuranic isotope, 236U. "

Concerning the radioactive weapons used in Iraq: " Viewers will see in

the film, evidence of a new class of uranium weapons. " These include

" bunker defeat " bombs. (photo of Tedd Weyman © 2004 Telepool)

 

For further description of the film see a downloadable

summary of " The Doctor ... "

http://www.traprockpeace.org/sunny_miller_10aug04.doc

 

Thanks to Marion Küpker for alerting us to this resource.

She was a convener of the World Uranium Weapons Conference in Hamburg,

in October, 2003 - http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de

 

Please Note: This video rebuts Pentagon propaganda that it

has not used DU bombs, i.e. 'bunker busters', in Iraq. See discussion

at http://www.traprockpeace.org/bunker_busters_kilpatrick.html

 

 

Sunny Miller, Executive Director, Traprock Peace Center

August 9, 2004

 

Traprock provides many free audio interviews, photo resources and

written documents that can be viewed at its site, and accepts

donations towards an on-going educational campaign to warn the public

about the harm of uranium weapons. Many links are provided to groups

who call for stopping further mining, transport, refinement,

manufacturing and use of uranium and uranium weapons.

 

NEWS BRIEF or PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: A stunning new video

made for German television shows the use and impact of radioactive

uranium weapons during the current Iraq War. Veterans, military

families, activists and interested individuals can now order this

documentary with English narration for non-commercial use, through the

website for Traprock Peace Center, a not-for-protit peace education

center, at www.traprockpeace.org . This documentary, written by

Freider Wagner and Valentin Thurn, provides commentary by British

veterans about the harm uranium exposure has caused in their

off-spring. Canadian, German and Iraqi physicians and researchers

dixcuss their findings, including samples gathered at an Iraqi TV

station that indicate the US probably has used uranium and nuclear

reactor wastes in bunker-busting bombs, since U236 was detected in

debris gathered there.

 

 

For information on how you can help veterans and civilians be

tested for uranium contamination, or for links to many groups working

to abolish uranium weapons see

http://www.traprockpeace.org/depleted_uranium.html

 

To obtain the video by mail, please send a donation of $30 ($25

for the film and $5 shipping) to the address below and indicate that

you wish to obtain the video.

 

Or, you may donate online to receive this video.

 

The VHS formatted video is available for donations of $30.00

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The video will be sent by first class postage within the US.

 

Traprock provides many free audio interviews, photo resources

and written documents that can be viewed at its site, and accepts

donations towards an on-going educational campaign to warn the public

about the harm of uranium weapons. Many links are provided to groups

who call for stopping further mining, transport, refinement,

manufacturing and use of uranium and uranium weapons.

 

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August 11 , 2004 - page created by Sunny Miller and Charlie Jenks;

updated August 12, 2004.

 

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