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Rise of Cancer and Deformed Babies Reported in Iraq
December 1, 2009
Iraqi officials are reporting incidences of cancer, deformed babies and other health problems have risen sharply since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Many suspect the causes are contamination from weapons used in years of war and unchecked pollution. In the city of Falluja a spike in the number of births of stillborn, deformed and paralyzed babies has alarmed doctors. Falluja was the target of two massive assaults by the U.S. military. In the city of Basra, Doctor Jawad al-Ali said: “We have seen new kinds of cancer that were not recorded in Iraq before war in 2003, types of fibrous (soft tissue) cancer and bone cancer. These refer clearly to radiation as a cause.”
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