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Uranium Contamination of Civilian
Population of Kabul,
Afghanistan
September 05-08, 2004:
UMRC Poster Presentation
Durakovic,A.;Parrish, R.; Gerdes,A.; Zimmerman,
I.; Klimaschewski,F.: Quantitative Analysis of Uranium Isotopes in the Urine of
the Civilian Population of Kabul, Afghanistan after Operation Enduring Freedom,
At: European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM)
Annual Conference 2004, Helsinki, Finland.
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Uranium Contamination of US Military
Personnel at Samawah, Iraq
August 25-28, 2004:
UMRC Poster Presentation
A. Durakovic, A. Gerdes, I. Zimmerman, F.
Klimaschewski:
Quantitative Analysis of Concentration and Ratios
of Uranium Isotopes
in the US Military Personnel at Samawah, Iraq
during Operation Enduring
Freedom
At: European Radiation Research 2004, the 33rd
Annual Meeting of the
European Society for Radiation Biology, Budapest,
Hungary.
View:
Poster (pdf)
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Uranium Contamination of Iraq Soils by
US and UK Forces, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation TELIC
Posted August 11, 2004:
UMRC Poster Presentation
A. Durakovic, A. Gerdes, I. Zimmerman:
Concentration and Ratio of Uranium Isotopes in the
Fine-Fraction of
Surface Soil from Baghdad and Basra Collected
after Operation Iraqi
Freedom
Health Physics Society, 49th Annual Meeting, American Conference of
Radiological Safety, Juni 11-15 2004, Washington DC
View:
Poster (pdf)
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"The Doctors, the Depleted Uranium and
the Dying
Children"
Film documentary
At Traprock Peace Center, covering UMRC's field research,
Iraq War II.
View:
How to get the film
http://www.traprockpeace.org/depleted_uranium_iraq.html
View:
UMRC comments
http://www.traprockpeace.org/tedd_weyman_10aug04.html
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UMRC Afghanistan findings peer reviewed
by International Radiation Protection Association
May 23, 2004:
UMRC Poster Presentation
A. Durakovic, R. Parrish, I. Zimmerman, S.
Gresham:
The Urinary Concentration and Ratio of Uranium
Isotopes
in Civilians of the Bibi Mahro Region after Recent
Military
Operations in Eastern Afghanistan, 11th
International
Congress of the International Radiation Protection
Association, Madrid, Spain, May 23-28, 2004.
View:
Poster (pdf)
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UMRC Uranium Clinical Testing Protocols
recommended to US Departments of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (DVA) for US
forces returning from Iraq and Afghanistan
April 21, 2004:
UMRC
UMRC Testing Protocols for Uranium
Contamination
View:
Uranium Clinical Testing Protocol
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UMRC's recent findings of DU
contamination in US troops from As Samawah - Operation Iraqi Freedom:
April 19, 2004:
New York
Daily News
G.I.s press Army for uranium test
"...This is not the first
time the Army's depleted uranium screening operation has come under scrutiny ...
Reps. Ciro Rodriguez (D-Tex.) and Robert Filner (D-Calif.) charged the Defense
Department has previously misled investigators about soldiers' depleted uranium
exposure during the 1991 Persian Gulf War."
(...)
View:
full article (html)
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April 05, 2004:
Army
Times
Sick Guard members blame depleted
uranium
by Jane McHugh
UMRC
provides idependent clinical assessment of DU contamination for US, UK and other
coalition troops
View:
full article
View: UMRC's self-assessment questionaire for uranium contamination
View:
Traprock Peace
Centre identifies US troops needing
assessment for
uranium contamination
April 05, 2004:
New York
Daily News
ARMY to Test N.Y. Guard Unit
Senator Hillary Clinton demands that all veterans
of Iraq get checked
By Juan Gonzalez (Daily News staff writer)
... Dr. Asaf Durakovic, a
former Army doctor and nuclear medicine expert who examined and tested the nine
men at The News' request, concluded four of them "almost certainly" inhaled
radioactive dust from exploded depleted uranium shells fired by U.S. troops.
(...)
View:
full article (html)
April 04, 2004:
New York
Daily News
By Juan Gonzalez (Daily News staff writer)
Poisoned?
Shocking report reveals local
troops may be victims of America's high-tech weapons - Special investigation
Four soldiers
from a New York Army National Guard company serving in Iraq are contaminated
with radiation likely caused by dust from depleted uranium shells fired by U.S.
troops, a Daily News investigation has found.
(...)
View:
full article (html)
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Warning of uranium contamination risks
to NGO staff, Coalition forces, foreign contract personnel and civilians in Iraq
February 06, 2004:
UMRC
Bulletin
By Tedd Weyman (UMRC
Iraq Field Team Lead)
Recently
completed laboratory analyses show two members of Uranium Medical Research
Centre’s (UMRC) field investigation team are contaminated with Depleted Uranium
(DU). The two field staff, one from Canada and the other, Beirut, toured Iraq
for thirteen days in October 2003; five months after the cessation of Operation
Iraqi Freedom’s aerial bombing and ground force campaign. Using mass
spectrometry, UMRC’s partner laboratory in Germany measured DU in both team
members’ urine samples.
(...)
View:
full
article (asp)
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UMRC's offer to support UNEP's
post-conflict study of Afghanistan and Iraq remains open
December 13, 2003:
UMRC
letter to UNEP
UMRC offers UNEP on-the-ground translation
services, bombsite coordinates, transportation and security in reponse to UNEP's
expressed reasons for not investigating Afghanistan.
By Tedd Weyman (UMRC
Iraq Field Team Lead)
View:
full letter (asp)
View:
Stephanie Hiller article (htm)
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Ex-military doctor decries use of
depleted uranium weapons
November 22, 2003:
The Japan Times
By Nao Shimoyachi (staff writer)
View:
Article (htm) (link)
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Health Consequences of Radiological
Warfare
November 20-24, 2003:
Japan lecture series
Dr. A. Durakovic's presentation to House of Councillors, Parliament of Japan,
Hiroshima Peace Center and lectures at Tokyo and Osaka.
View:
Presentation (pdf) (4.4 MByte)
View:
Presentation
(asp)
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Abu Khasib to Al Ah'qaf:
Iraq Gulf War II Field Investigation
Report
November 2003:
Installment 1
Tedd
Weyman
View:
Report (Word
document)
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Undiagnosed
Illnesses and Radioactive Warfare
October 2003:
Scientific editorial
Asaf
Durakovic
Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) 2003;
44: 520-532.
View:
Abstract (html) (link)
View:
Editorial (pdf) (link)
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Estimate of the Pulmonary Neoplastic Hazard of Inhaled Depleted Uranium in Gulf
War Veterans
September 21-25, 2003:
Scientific
conference presentation
A. Durakovic, L. Dietz, I. Zimmerman
European Cancer Conference ECCO 12, Copenhagen, Sept. 21-25, 2003.
View:
Abstract (asp)
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Health Consequences of
Radioactive Weapons: Undiagnosed
illnesses of radiological
warfare
September 2-3;
2003:
Scientific conference presentation
A. Durakovic
International
Conference on Environmental Illness:
Misdiagnosed illnesses – What you can do
medically and legally.
Environmental Law Centre (ELC), London, Sept. 2-3, 2003.
Abstract: pending publisher's review
Full text: pending publisher's review
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Uranium Isotopes Concentration
and Ratios in the Urine of the
Civilian Population of
Southeastern Afghanistan
August 23-27,
2003:
Scientific conference presentation
A. Durakovic, A. Gerdes, I. Zimmerman
European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM),
Annual
Congress, Amsterdam, Aug. 23-27, 2003.
View:
Abstract (asp)
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Evaluation of the Carcinogenic
Risk of Depleted
Uranium in the Lungs of Gulf
War Veterans
August 10-14, 2003:
Scientific conference presentation
A. Durakovic, I. Zimmerman
World Lung Cancer Conference, Vancouver.
View:
Abstract
(asp)
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Estimate of the Time Zero Lung Burden of
Depleted Uranium in
Persian Gulf War Veterans by
the 24-Hour Urinary Excretion and Exponential Decay Analysis
August 8, 2003:
Scientific publication
Col. Asaf Durakovic, MC USAR; Patricia Horan, BSc;
Leonard A. Dietz,
MSc; Isaac Zimmerman, BSc
Military Medicine, Vol. 168, August 2003, pages 600-605.
View:
Abstract (asp)
View: Full text available in reference library or as
reprint from publisher
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