[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [ALACOUN:9479] Fw: On the detention of Dr. Ammash

[Alfred Kagan]

>From: "Elaine Harger" <eharger at agoron.com>
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>Subject: [ALACOUN:9479] Fw: On the detention of Dr. Ammash
>Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 07:32:17 -0700
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>Colleagues,
>
>Forwarding FYI a press release on the detention of an Iraqi 
>scientist who has published with South End Press.  Seem the US 
>military occupiers want to silence anyone who is likely to be 
>critical of next regime.
>
>Elaine Harger
>Councilor-at-Large
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:alexander at southendpress.org>Alexander Dwinell
>To: <mailto:alexander at southendpress.org>Alexander Dwinell
>Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 12:36 PM
>Subject: On the detention of Dr. Ammash
>
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, May 7th, 2003
>CONTACT: Alexander Dwinell
>
>On the detention of Dr. Huda S. Ammash
>
>The U.S. publishers of Dr. Huda S. Ammash assert that there may be political
>motivations for her detention on Monday, May 5 in Baghdad by the U.S.
>military on allegations that she oversaw Iraq's purported development of
>biological weapons. Dr. Ammash, Dean of Baghdad University, is the author of
>"Toxic Pollution, the Gulf War, and Sanctions," a peer reviewed research
>paper published in _Iraq Under Siege_ (South End Press, 2002) an anthology
>that examined the effects of the Gulf War and sanctions on Iraq.
>
>United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC)
>spokesperson Hiro Ueki has confirmed to South End Press that based on
>earlier research "UNMOVIC did not single Dr. Ammash out for interviews
>because UNMOVIC did not have clear evidence to link Dr. Ammash to BW
>[biological weapons] programs" when visiting Baghdad University on January
>13th, 2003.
>
>"We are outraged at the U.S.'s extra-legal detention of Dr. Ammash and its
>plans to interrogate her.  We demand that Dr. Ammash be released
>immediately," said co-publisher Alexander Dwinell.  "The U.S. government is
>trying to silence Dr. Ammash's outspoken criticism of the U.S. role in
>causing cancers and other illnesses in Iraq through its own use of
>biologically hazardous weapons such as radioactive deleted uranium."
>
>Dr. Ammash, an environmental biologist and professor at Baghdad University,
>received her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. She has earned
>international respect for her publications, particularly her documentation
>of the rise in cancers among Iraqi children and war veterans since the Gulf
>War.  In _Iraq Under Siege_ she writes:  "Iraqi death rates have increased
>significantly, with cancer representing a significant cause of mortality,
>especially in the south and among children."
>
>When visited in Baghdad by a group of NGO representatives and former UN
>officials in January 2003, Dr. Ammash stated: "People here bear every
>respect for Western people and Western civilization.  We respect your
>technological accomplishments and your values..Yet hatred is being
>manufactured by some to engineer a clash of civilizations."
>
>Dr. Ammash's other publications include: "Impact of Gulf War Pollution in
>the Spread of Infectious Diseases in Iraq," (Soli Al-Mondo, Rome, 1999), and
>"Electromagnetic, Chemical, and Microbial Pollution Resulting from War and
>Embargo, and Its Impact on the Environment and Health," (Journal of the
>[Iraqi] Academy of Science, 1997).
>
>
>South End Press
>7 Brookline Street #1, Cambridge, MA 02139
>(617) 547-4002 Fax: (617) 547-1333
><http://www.southendpress.org>www.southendpress.org


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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
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