Iraq
Fallujah babies: Under a new kind of siege
While the US military has formally withdrawn from Iraq, doctors and residents of Fallujah are blaming weapons like depleted uranium and white phosphorous used during two devastating US attacks on Fallujah in 2004 for what are being described as "catastrophic" levels of birth defects and abnormalities.
Dr Samira Alani, a paediatric specialist at Fallujah General Hospital, has taken a personal interest in investigating an explosion of congenital abnormalities that have mushroomed in the wake of the US sieges since 2005.
Report on Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera
La guerra lascia il segno sulle malformazioni congenite
Increase of birth defects and miscarriages in Fallujah
Newweapons Press release
Increase in time of birth defects and miscarriages in Fallujah since 2003 and its association with toxic metals load in the population and in newborns and children with birth defects and their families
We present here a full scientific investigation on the birth defects increase in Falluhja. Unusually high frequency of birth defects and miscarriages was observed over the years following 2003, with gradual increase since then and with birth defects frequencies not decreasing up to November 2010.
Four Polygamous Families with Congenital Birth Defects from Fallujah, Iraq
Study to be published soon on International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Abstract:
Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima'
Published on The Independent on 24 July 2010
The Health Effects of Exposure to Uranium and Uranium Weapons Fallout
The element uranium is the basis of and parent of almost all releases of radioactivity to the environment, yet curiously, until it began to be employed as a weapon, it had been quite neglected as a hazardous component of radioactive releases to the environment. It is not measured routinely near nuclear power stations or reprocessing sites. It is treated as if it were natural: which of course it is, but its concentration in these places, and the form it is released in is not.
Deformed babies in Fallujah
Deformed babies in Fallujah
Iraq LETTER TO THE UNITED NATIONS
Various undersigned
Contaminating Iraq with Depleted Uranium
Crimes of the century: Occupation & Contaminating Iraq with Depleted Uranium
By dr. Souad N. Al‐Azzawi, associate professor in Environmental Engineering, Iraq
Reports:
How war debris could cause cancer
Could the mystery over how depleted uranium might cause genetic damage be closer to being solved? It may be, if a controversial claim by two researchers is right. They say that minute quantities of the material lodged in the body may kick out energetic electrons that mimic the effect of beta radiation. This, they argue, could explain how residues of depleted uranium scattered across former war zones could be increasing the risk of cancers and other problems among soldiers and local people.
Uranium on in Lebanon: a study on civilians exposed to dust
Original title: Enriched and industrial uranium detected in civilians' urine that were exposed to the dust of Israeli rockets
Published on Lebanese newspaper Al Safir on March 6 2008
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