US war machine outdid itself in Fallujah

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US war machine outdid itself in Fallujah
Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:04:49 GMT

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Four-year-old Yousif Hamed and his sister, Inas, both of whom suffer from birth defects, at their home in Fallujah

The toxic trail left by the United States onslaughts on Fallujah in central Iraq is reportedly deadlier than the one besetting Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The findings are part of the study titled "Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005-2009," which was also cited in an article last month by award-winning journalist Patrick Cockburn in British newspaper The Independent.

According to the study, the examination of 4,800 individuals revealed that the city, which was the target of two wholesale American attacks in 2004, bears more instances of infant mortality, cancer and leukemia than what has been reported in the aftermath of the two Japanese cities targeted by US atomic bombs in 1945.

As opposed to a normal population, the plagued Iraqis were also shown to have given birth to more females than males. The proportion, the like of which has been found in Hiroshima, shows genetic damage which affects boys more than girls.

The troops have already owned up to applying phosphorous munitions during the operations.

Cockburn quoted Dr. Chris Busby, among a three-member team behind the study, as saying that "to produce an effect like this, some very major mutagenic exposure must have occurred."

The physician said that the extent of the genetic damage suggested the use of uranium in some form. "My guess is that they used a new weapon against buildings to break through walls and kill those inside."

HN/MB