Testimony of Leuren Moret for the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan Dec. 13-14, 2003, Tokyo, JAPAN © Leuren Moret http://afghan-tribunal.3005.net/english/

 1. Please tell us your short biography and your present position. I am asking you because you are a witness.

Leuren Moret is an independent scientist and international expert on radiation and public health issues. She is on the organizing committee of the World Committee on Radiation Risk (WCRR), an organization of independent radiation specialists including

members of the radiation committee in the EU Parliament – European Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR).

She is an Environmental Commissioner for the City of Berkeley.

Ms. Moret earned her B.S. in Geology at U.C. Davis in 1968, and her M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from U.C. Berkeley in 1978. She has completed all but her dissertation for a PhD. in the Geosciences at U.C. Davis.

She has traveled and conducted scientific research in 42 countries.

She wrote a scientific report on depleted uranium for the United Nations subcommission investigating the illegality of depleted uranium munitions.

She has been trained on radiation issues by Marion Fulk, a former Manhattan Project Scientist and retired insider at the Livermore Lab who is an expert on radioactive fallout and rainout.

Her investigation of depleted uranium particle size formed under high temperature conditions on the battlefield is a critical depleted uranium issue.

The production of particles in very high concentrations and numbers results in the permanent suspension of depleted uranium particulate matter in the atmosphere. This has been ignored, but is a major contributor to adverse health effects caused by DU exposure. [see Letter to Congressman McDermott – http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/Leuren-Moret-Gen-Groves21feb03.htm].

Members of the Japanese Parliament opposed to the US war against Iraq have appointed her as their Official Representative in the San Francisco Bay Area where she works closely with Congresswoman Barbara Lee.

Her Berkeley Resolution which was passed September 10, 2002, by the first city in the world, calls for a permanent ban on the weaponization of space.

She proposed the resolution after learning that lower orbital space is contaminated with uranium and its decay products from atmospheric testing, and burned up nuclear batteries and reactors in spacecraft.

During the summer of 2003, she traveled and lectured widely in Japan on the health effects of radiation from atmospheric testing fallout, nuclear power plants and depleted uranium weaponry used in Afghanistan and Iraq.

She spoke at international press conferences in Japan on the long-term effects of depleted uranium with Dr. Al-Ali and Dr. G. Hassan, two medical doctors from Basra, Iraq.

She and other international specialists, including Dr. Al-Ali and Dr. Hassan, presented their research findings at a World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference in Hamburg, Germany, October 16-19, 2003 [http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de].

Ms. Moret testified on June 26, 2003, in Chiba, Japan, as an expert on depleted uranium at a Public Hearing for the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan (ICTA).

She testified at a Public Hearing for the ICTA on September 11, 2003, in Manilla, Philippines. She is a member of the organizing committee for the International Criminal Tribunal for Iraq (ICTI). The ICTI will be conducted in a series of Public Hearings hosted in countries around the world with the final Tribunal to be held in Istanbul on March 20, 2005.

Leuren Moret President, Scientists for Indigenous People Past President,

Association for Women Geoscientists

City of Berkeley Environmental Commissioner