Fallujah babies: Under a new kind of siege

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http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/01/2012126394859797.html


Doctors and residents blame US weapons for catastrophic levels of birth defects in Fallujah's newborns.


While the US military has formally withdrawn from Iraq, doctors and residents of Fallujah are blaming weapons like depleted uranium and white phosphorous used during two devastating US attacks on Fallujah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.

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As of December 21, Alani, who has worked at the hospital since 1997, told Al Jazeera she had personally logged 677 cases of birth defects since October 2009. Just eight days later when Al Jazeera visited the city on December 29, that number had already risen to 699.

"There are not even medical terms to describe some of these conditions because we've never seen them until now," she said. "So when I describe it all I can do is describe the physical defects, but I'm unable to provide a medical term."

-long snip explaining what is happening plus the cancers in adults-
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""I will not leave this subject", she told Al Jazeera. "I will not stop."

we are so guilty - we should be there in full force helping the Dr. and the people of Fallujah.
how can we do this to them and then abandon them? we are so guilty.

hugs and kisses for Samira

[yurbud]

1. another reason Bush and Cheney need to be prosecuted at least given a free ride to Fallujah

without security.