Good morning campers!
Remember back in 2004? Way back then -- even before the iPhone -- the locals barbecued a few Blackwater mercenaries and hung them from a bridge. In order to show them who's who, the USA bombarded the city of Fallujah for a few weeks, and then subsequently pulled out.
Well it turns out that during the intervening six years -- while we've all been busy upgrading to HD -- some very strange things have been happening in Fallujah: babies with serious birth defects (including a girl born with two heads), paralysis of the lower limbs, a 38-fold increase in leukaemia, a ten-fold increase in female breast cancer and significant increases in lymphoma and brain tumours in adults.
Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima'
The study, Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009, was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and seems to confirm the use of depleted uranium munitions.
Scientific study shows soaring cancer rates in Fallujah; DU suspected
At the time -- six years ago when US consumers were waiting a year to buy a new Prius -- right thinking Americans were incensed when the US military admitted that it was using white phosphorous bombs on the citizens of Fallujah.
It turns out a little burned flesh was the least of their worries.
1 comment:
DU may be "suspected" but I can tell you that in my years of research on the battles for Fallujah, I found absolutely no evidence that DU weapons were ever used in Fallujah.
But I did find this. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/05/world/main4235028.shtml
Tuwaitha is less than 50 miles from Fallujah. Is it possible that Saddam wreaked this havoc on his own people?
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