Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Children in Fallujah who suffer from birth defects which are thought to be linked to weapons used in attacks on the city by US Marines
Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, according to a new study.
Iraqi doctors in Fallujah have complained since 2005 of being overwhelmed by the number of babies with serious birth defects, ranging from a girl born with two heads to paralysis of the lower limbs. They said they were also seeing far more cancers than they did before the battle for Fallujah between US troops and insurgents.
Their claims have been supported by a survey showing a four-fold increase in all cancers and a 12-fold increase in childhood cancer in under-14s. Infant mortality in the city is more than four times higher than in neighbouring Jordan and eight times higher than in Kuwait.
Dr Chris Busby, a visiting professor at the University of Ulster and one of the authors of the survey of 4,800 individuals in Fallujah, said it is difficult to pin down the exact cause of the cancers and birth defects. He added that "to produce an effect like this, some very major mutagenic exposure must have occurred in 2004 when the attacks happened".
US Marines first besieged and bombarded Fallujah, 30 miles west of Baghdad, in April 2004 after four employees of the American security company Blackwater were killed and their bodies burned. After an eight-month stand-off, the Marines stormed the city in November using artillery and aerial bombing against rebel positions. US forces later admitted that they had employed white phosphorus as well as other munitions.
I notice you quote from the Bible? Maybe you should be aware that the 'God' in that freakin book is a brutal war god HIMself!?
ReplyDeleteI don't know what bible you've been reading but its not the one I have. If you refer to the wars in the Old Testament these were judgments passed on civilizations that for centuries had sacrificed their own children, raped and brutalized their women and oppressed the impoverished into lives that would not even classify as slavery. This a very brief chapter of a book that is dedicated to delivering a message of HOPE to world in short supply of it.
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