Fallujah doctors report rise in birth defects
Doctors in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are reporting a high level of birth defects, with some blaming weapons used by the US after the Iraq invasion.
The city witnessed fierce fighting in 2004 as US forces carried out a major offensive against insurgents.
Now, the level of heart defects among newborn babies is said to be 13 times higher than in Europe.
There's a companion story, also from the BBC, that reports that after the shooting was over in Fallujah the rubble was bulldozed into a bank of a river that supplies a lot of residents with drinking water.
It would seem to me that the obvious words to mention in this story are "depleted" and "uranium" but neither word appears. Given the history of claims that DU can cause these kinds of problems, I find that more than a little puzzling. There is no other specific cause mentioned — - just suspicion about "weapons." Isn't much of the DU that's used by the United States supplied by Canada?
H/t to lagatta at Bread and Roses.
Almost immediate update:
And immediately after posting this I found a much meatier post on it by Jim White at The Seminal. He definitely mentions depleted uranium. He has videos. And charts!
there are also birth defects surfacing in the US in children of military that have served in Iraq. 76% of Canadian DU is sold to the US
israel used DU in Gaza and the same munitions are being used in Afghanistan. This will threaten the entire planet--have these idiots never heard of wind and water as transmitters?? But then their aim is depopulation so I guess it is ok?
Reminds me of the book On the Beach
From Jim's Seminal diary:
Gosh. A guy just so totally after Rick Hillier's heart.
I find it odd that Colonel Naughton is working in Materiel Command with all his medical training and his skill as a diagnostician.